I watched the Fail Mary again on YouTube and was reminded of a couple more stupid NFL rules:
1) When a team scores a touchdown with no time left, and the game isn't tied or the scoring team isn't down by 1 or 2 points, it's utterly pointless to have them attempt a PAT. They don't do it in overtime, and they shouldn't at the end of regulation.
2) That said, the NFL should do what they do in college and allow the defense to run a PAT back the other way for 2 points. That would add more strategy and drama. Stupid Rule #1 would still be stupid, except the acceptable range would be a 2 point margin either way.
With the decreased emphasis on kickoff returns, we see a huge percentage of touchbacks, and kick offs usually happen after touchdowns. Nothing bothers me more than
With the decreased emphasis on kickoff returns, we see a huge percentage of touchbacks, and kick offs usually happen after touchdowns. Nothing bothers me more than
TD
Commercial
Touchback
Commercial.
Yes!!
Except towards the end of the game and the beer lines are getting longer...
With the decreased emphasis on kickoff returns, we see a huge percentage of touchbacks, and kick offs usually happen after touchdowns. Nothing bothers me more than
TD
Commercial
Touchback
Commercial.
Yes!!
Except towards the end of the game and the beer lines are getting longer...
But yes.
but it really never happens near the end of the game... they get all the commercials out of the way fairly early, just in case
First, let me vent on any coach of the year award. It's the most flawed award in sports.
Unlike any other award, it doesn't go to the best performer in that category. The best coach rarely gets it. It almost always goes to the coach whose team exceeds preseason media expectations the most. If the media expected your team to be 4-12, and it goes 10-6, it must be because the coach was a magician, not because of flawed preseason predictions. If MVP were decided this way, Nick Foles would beat Peyton Manning because we expected Manning to do well before the season started but didn't expect anything out of Foles. Poor, poor logic.
It's a tougher question on agreeing with him that it should be Belichick. But we all know that Andy Reid is going to win this in a landslide. At least he's more worthy than the usual coach that drastically turns around a team in one season.
The GD targeting rule in College rears it's ugly head in the armed forces bowl as a Navy player is ejected for playing football. No head or neck contact.
Good idea in theory, horrible in practice. Get spearing out of the game but damn let them play defense
Electromatic wrote:The GD targeting rule in College rears it's ugly head in the armed forces bowl as a Navy player is ejected for playing football. No head or neck contact.
Good idea in theory, horrible in practice. Get spearing out of the game but damn let them play defense
As much of a baseball traditionalist as I am, the mound visit is so stupid. It's rately used as anything other than a stall tactic, and it's not like hitting coaches get to go out and talk to the hitter mid at-bat.
numbers wrote:As much of a baseball traditionalist as I am, the mound visit is so stupid. It's rately used as anything other than a stall tactic, and it's not like hitting coaches get to go out and talk to the hitter mid at-bat.
Green Habit wrote:In the NFL, I think it's absolute bullshit that a team can have the second best record in a conference, but get stuck in the #5 seed and be forced to play three road games to get to the Super Bowl if the one team that had a better record was a division rival. It's likely that either the Broncos or the Chiefs are going to get screwed by this rule this year.
Green Habit wrote:In the NFL, I think it's absolute bullshit that a team can have the second best record in a conference, but get stuck in the #5 seed and be forced to play three road games to get to the Super Bowl if the one team that had a better record was a division rival. It's likely that either the Broncos or the Chiefs are going to get screwed by this rule this year.
Green Habit wrote:In the NFL, I think it's absolute bullshit that a team can have the second best record in a conference, but get stuck in the #5 seed and be forced to play three road games to get to the Super Bowl if the one team that had a better record was a division rival. It's likely that either the Broncos or the Chiefs are going to get screwed by this rule this year.
Green Habit wrote:In the NFL, I think it's absolute bullshit that a team can have the second best record in a conference, but get stuck in the #5 seed and be forced to play three road games to get to the Super Bowl if the one team that had a better record was a division rival. It's likely that either the Broncos or the Chiefs are going to get screwed by this rule this year.
Seriously, how the hell does waiting 10 seconds make the game safer? I have little sympathy here--against a no-huddle offense you should either get stuck playing your same 11, or be forced to use a timeout or incur a penalty. I bet Chip Kelly's even more glad that he's in the NFL now.
It's an attempt to change in relation to the way the game is being played.
That said, even with 85 guys on a roster, most teams don't have much ready depth. I'll be interested to see if this gets younger players more snaps, or if it does have any impact on safety. They are running so many plays now I understand trying to make a change to adjust to the style of play, the targeting thing was ridiculously and sporadically applied last season though. The next step is yellow and red cards I guess.
I'm more interested to see if coaches are becoming more proficient teaching the target zone.
