NFL Week 6

Bears Whiskey Nut · Sun Oct 13, 2019 7:43 pm

Well this has been an interesting week.

49ers beat the Rams
Jets beat the Cowboys
and now...the Steelers are beating the Chargers.

Speaking of the Chargers. WTF happened to them. They looked to be a force last year, and this year they have slipped way back into mediocrity. I mean...fine with me. We have them on the schedule this year.

Honestly. The dangerous schedule we all lamented about this year, looks to be softening rather rapidly.

BR0D1E86 · Sun Oct 13, 2019 10:03 pm

To be fair, those teams could be saying the same thing about the Bears.

The Marshall Plan · Mon Oct 14, 2019 4:46 am

Well it looks like they did their best to try and get the Cowboys to win. How many consecutive plays were penalties called on the Jets?

Makes me feel good that they do the same for us when Mack gets held on practically every play. Oh wait....

Bears Whiskey Nut · Mon Oct 14, 2019 7:54 am

The Marshall Plan wrote: ↑Mon Oct 14, 2019 4:46 am Well it looks like they did their best to try and get the Cowboys to win. How many consecutive plays were penalties called on the Jets?

Makes me feel good that they do the same for us when Mack gets held on practically every play. Oh wait....

The last two minutes of that game was unwatchable. Ticky tack crap. Some of them were penalties to be sure, but certainly not all of them.

Otis Day · Mon Oct 14, 2019 8:00 am

The NFL has become hard to watch. 1) The refs are ruining the game. Some of these PI calls are ridiculous and then to have the reviews not overturned? 2) The league has become a league of average to below avg teams and the Patriots. Sure the Pats schedule has been weak, but they are the only team to me that looks like the goods. SF playing really well, their D is legit, but I am waiting for them to fall like the 'boys and Chargers have.

IMO there has been some really bad football this year, more than I remember and i think mainly it is the refereeing, and one of the main things is the non holding calls against Mack.

Boris13c · Mon Oct 14, 2019 8:18 am

Bears Whiskey Nut wrote: ↑Mon Oct 14, 2019 7:54 am
The Marshall Plan wrote: ↑Mon Oct 14, 2019 4:46 am Well it looks like they did their best to try and get the Cowboys to win. How many consecutive plays were penalties called on the Jets?

Makes me feel good that they do the same for us when Mack gets held on practically every play. Oh wait....
The last two minutes of that game was unwatchable. Ticky tack crap. Some of them were penalties to be sure, but certainly not all of them.

agreed

it was so bad I was expecting the Cowboys to get a do over on the 2 point try because the Jets DB had the audacity to fall down when Witten pushed him

Otis Day wrote: ↑Mon Oct 14, 2019 8:00 am The NFL has become hard to watch. 1) The refs are ruining the game. Some of these PI calls are ridiculous and then to have the reviews not overturned? 2) The league has become a league of average to below avg teams and the Patriots. Sure the Pats schedule has been weak, but they are the only team to me that looks like the goods. SF playing really well, their D is legit, but I am waiting for them to fall like the 'boys and Chargers have.

IMO there has been some really bad football this year, more than I remember and i think mainly it is the refereeing, and one of the main things is the non holding calls against Mack.

everything about the officials and the rules needs to be reworked

when you have a bunch of part time officials being expected to absorb an encyclopedia and apply all details of it with any accuracy each game, you are going to be disappointed

simplify the rules and get rid of the super slow-mo replays ... let them watch the replay as many times as they want, but at real speed, so that the calls start to match what the eyes see

Mon Oct 14, 2019 10:10 am

I didn't watch a lot of football over the weekend, but I did pop in long enough to watch the Cowboys when they were down 21-3 before the half. It was crazy.

I'll agree that it's been a weird year where good teams are average, average teams are bad, and bad teams are really bad. There has been a LOT of below average-to-bad football.

Might as well just hand the Pats the Lombardi now.

The Marshall Plan · Mon Oct 14, 2019 12:33 pm

Boris13c wrote: ↑Mon Oct 14, 2019 8:18 am everything about the officials and the rules needs to be reworked

when you have a bunch of part time officials being expected to absorb an encyclopedia and apply all details of it with any accuracy each game, you are going to be disappointed

simplify the rules and get rid of the super slow-mo replays ... let them watch the replay as many times as they want, but at real speed, so that the calls start to match what the eyes see

They should go back to the way it was.

Allow the contact and the hits. Accept the fact that as a consequence of getting paid millions upon millions of dollars that you run the risk of having brain damage. Similar to a boxer.

Instant replay should be allowed on scoring and then have the coach's challenge.

Make the refs full time employees. My understanding, and I could be wrong, is that the refs are part timers. Have them on the payroll for the whole calendar year and in the offseason have them practice and be self critical of themselves. Have some accountability. All of us in our jobs have it. Why are they so special? Have the coaches and players provide feedback on who the good and bad ones are.

I still think the officiating in the NFL is subject to nudging by the league.

Bears Whiskey Nut · Mon Oct 14, 2019 7:18 pm

C'MON Detroit!!!! Let's go Kitties!!

MoFugger · Mon Oct 14, 2019 7:31 pm

Lions beat themselves on that first drive, but they ain't screwing around.

Bears Whiskey Nut · Mon Oct 14, 2019 7:50 pm

Pack secondary got torched twice.

Bears Whiskey Nut · Mon Oct 14, 2019 9:56 pm

I fucking hate Aaron Rodgers with the heat of 1000 suns. But I have to admit, that dude can drop dimes.

C'mon Lions. Don't fuck this up!

Rakshir · Mon Oct 14, 2019 10:15 pm

Refs just giving Packers the game. BS hands to the face call on critical down.

Otis Day · Tue Oct 15, 2019 6:18 am

Rodgers, OMG!! He was making that 5th string WR look like Moss. That is what a franchise QB does, make everyone look and play better. That TD throw to Lazard, Lazaro, whoever the hell he is, was just friggin remarkable. He had a foot to put that ball in there and he dropped right in.

I still don't think the Pack are that good overall. But what always holds true, you can't beat them by kicking FGS.

Bears Whiskey Nut · Tue Oct 15, 2019 7:14 am

Rakshir wrote: ↑Mon Oct 14, 2019 10:15 pm Refs just giving Packers the game. BS hands to the face call on critical down.

That hands to the face call on a long 3rd down was TOTAL bullshit.

Rakshir · Wed Oct 16, 2019 11:56 am

Both times he was called were BS and it sealed the Packers win.

Boris13c · Wed Oct 16, 2019 3:56 pm

I was so hoping Crosby doinked the FG attempt to spoil the refs plans of handing the game to Goon Bay ... no such luck