2016 NFL Season

[Green Habit]

Peyton fucking Manning just misused the word "biased."

I thought he was supposed to be smart or something.

He'd be better with practice, but yeah that was not a good booth appearance.

[doug rr]

[spike]

Anybody else always have a twinge of regret when watching football, knowing that you're getting excited about this sport while the men playing it are slowly killing themselves with tiny traumatic brain injuries...knowing that in a few years many of them will be unemployed with few prospects, especially since they were exploited while "attending" college...knowing how rampant opioid abuse is among current and former players just to deal with the pain of getting around every day...and knowing that so many of these players won't even recognize their families in their twilight years?

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The dirty ass Denver defense (DADD) didn't let you down tonight.

[Electromatic]

Was a little uncomfortable with the headshots Newton took last night. Some were unintentional, but that what they are supposedly removing, there will be fines, but that was a bad night.

[Monkey_Driven]

Was a little uncomfortable with the headshots Newton took last night. Some were unintentional, but that what they are supposedly removing, there will be fines, but that was a bad night.

The roughing the passer/intentional grounding one was especially brutal.

[Green Habit]

Was a little uncomfortable with the headshots Newton took last night. Some were unintentional, but that what they are supposedly removing, there will be fines, but that was a bad night.

The roughing the passer/intentional grounding one was especially brutal.

I've never understood why personal fouls can be offset by garden variety fouls. They should instead enforce both of them. But I need to rewatch the game to see how many of those hits took place when Cam was a runner instead of a passer.

[Monkey_Driven]

Was a little uncomfortable with the headshots Newton took last night. Some were unintentional, but that what they are supposedly removing, there will be fines, but that was a bad night.

The roughing the passer/intentional grounding one was especially brutal.

I've never understood why personal fouls can be offset by garden variety fouls. They should instead enforce both of them. But I need to rewatch the game to see how many of those hits took place when Cam was a runner instead of a passer.

That was a tough one too because he was well outside of the tackle box when he threw it away. I agree though, a personal foul should never be offset by a regular penalty unless it is a scoring play or something like that.

[Simple Torture]

Anybody else always have a twinge of regret when watching football, knowing that you're getting excited about this sport while the men playing it are slowly killing themselves with tiny traumatic brain injuries...knowing that in a few years many of them will be unemployed with few prospects, especially since they were exploited while "attending" college...knowing how rampant opioid abuse is among current and former players just to deal with the pain of getting around every day...and knowing that so many of these players won't even recognize their families in their twilight years?

Spoiler: show

JUST KIDDING GUYS GET READY COME ON GET READY





Don't forget to check out who's going to be on your TV this week here: http://506sports.com/nfl.php?yr=2016&wk=1

And if you're not sick of 538 in the election thread, see their updated odds here: http://projects.fivethirtyeight.com/201 ... edictions/

The dirty ass Denver defense (DADD) didn't let you down tonight.

Here's a compilation:

[Simple Torture]

That hit by Marshall (#54) looks like the worst of the bunch. Was it flagged? I fell asleep during the second half.

[spike]

That hit by Marshall (#54) looks like the worst of the bunch. Was it flagged? I fell asleep during the second half.

I believe it was, but that's the one that was offset by intentional grounding.

[Green Habit]

The Stewart one is obviously a foul.
The Marshall one is tough to see from that view, there's another angle out there where he's leading with his forearm but it's also not a complete view. I don't know if his intent was to go helmet to helmet but if he makes content anyway the intent doesn't matter.
The Miller one is one of those side to side helmet collisions that I don't think I've ever seen called. Maybe it should be, I don't know what the specific rules are on that. He did the same thing on his Super Bowl sack of Newton:

[Green Habit]

That hit by Marshall (#54) looks like the worst of the bunch. Was it flagged? I fell asleep during the second half.

I believe it was, but that's the one that was offset by intentional grounding.

No, that was Stewart's.

[spike]

That hit by Marshall (#54) looks like the worst of the bunch. Was it flagged? I fell asleep during the second half.

I believe it was, but that's the one that was offset by intentional grounding.

No, that was Stewart's.

Oh cool, even shittier cuz he was outside the hash marks on both Stewart hits.

[Green Habit]

That hit by Marshall (#54) looks like the worst of the bunch. Was it flagged? I fell asleep during the second half.

I believe it was, but that's the one that was offset by intentional grounding.

No, that was Stewart's.

Oh cool, even shittier cuz he was outside the hash marks on both Stewart hits.

In those clips they're replaying the same Stewart hit. Don't know if he had another one. And yes, he was outside the tackle box, bad call.

[spike]

That hit by Marshall (#54) looks like the worst of the bunch. Was it flagged? I fell asleep during the second half.

I believe it was, but that's the one that was offset by intentional grounding.

No, that was Stewart's.

Oh cool, even shittier cuz he was outside the hash marks on both Stewart hits.

In those clips they're replaying the same Stewart hit. Don't know if he had another one. And yes, he was outside the tackle box, bad call.

Way outside. Enjoy all the calls this year, champ.

[epilogue]

Peyton fucking Manning just misused the word "biased."

I thought he was supposed to be smart or something.

He'd be better with practice, but yeah that was not a good booth appearance.

I should be biased and cut him some slack.

[MitchCumstein]

The Stewart one is obviously a foul.
The Marshall one is tough to see from that view, there's another angle out there where he's leading with his forearm but it's also not a complete view. I don't know if his intent was to go helmet to helmet but if he makes content anyway the intent doesn't matter.
The Miller one is one of those side to side helmet collisions that I don't think I've ever seen called. Maybe it should be, I don't know what the specific rules are on that. He did the same thing on his Super Bowl sack of Newton:

It looked to me like Von was going in for anther strip and Ware kind of tossed Cam into him. It looks bad but I really don't think Von had any intention of going for his head.
I saw a view somewhere of the Marshall hit that showed contact. He definitely got him with the crown of his helmet. It looked pretty intentional.
And yes, Stewart will be getting a letter from the league.

[Stardog Champion]

That hit by Marshall (#54) looks like the worst of the bunch. Was it flagged? I fell asleep during the second half.

I believe it was, but that's the one that was offset by intentional grounding.

No, that was Stewart's.

Oh cool, even shittier cuz he was outside the hash marks on both Stewart hits.

In those clips they're replaying the same Stewart hit. Don't know if he had another one. And yes, he was outside the tackle box, bad call.

Way outside. Enjoy all the calls this year, champ.

Wasn't his throw short of the line of scrimmage though? If that's the case, then it can still be grounding even if he's outside the tackle box. I thought that was part of the grounding rule, but maybe I'm wrong? Or you are saying that the hit made the ball fall short of the line, which should not result in grounding at that point?

[Green Habit]

Wasn't his throw short of the line of scrimmage though? If that's the case, then it can still be grounding even if he's outside the tackle box. I thought that was part of the grounding rule, but maybe I'm wrong? Or you are saying that the hit made the ball fall short of the line, which should not result in grounding at that point?

I just rewatched the play, and you're correct--I retract my earlier statement.

[E.H. Ruddock]

Looks like Blair Walsh is picking up where he left off last season