NFL GDT: Week 15

[c9777666]

The two dumbest rules in the NFL end up benefitting the Cowboys/Patriots

 

[Glove Malfunction]

You are right about bad calls. In this case, that was a touchdown. The Pats go from playing a road game in the AFC Championship game to being home now. Which is what is so messed up.

Remember to Seferian-Jenkins non touchdown? What if the Jets win that game? Jets got screwed on that just has much as the Steelers got screwed today. That's two games the Pats were handed. If the right calls are made in these two games, the Pats might not even get a first round bye.

Can't speak to the Jets game, but whether you like the rule of not, the right call was made last night.

 

[Glove Malfunction]

Yeah, future hall of famers Chris Hogan AND Rex Burkhead were out!

And Edelman, And Hightower, And Van Noy, And Branch. And half their offensive line. Spare me.

 

[What the Faulk]

Two years old, but still relevant

The NFL's catch rule is better than you think

 

[Richard]

First full NFL game I watched all season was Pats-Steelers and boy was that call bad. I don't care if it's "right" under the rules. Then the rules are stupid. So if he was a running back that's a touchdown? That was so bad.

f*** the NFL. At least fix your damn games right. Last NFL game I ever watch. I didn't miss it last year (I didn't even realize the Steelers and Pats played in the AFC Championship game) I won't miss it going forward.

Flag football with Uniform Commercial Code set of rules........

No thanks.......

 

[Gene Parmesan]

Then turn the channel but we all know you won't stop watching. Fake rage.

 

[Richard]

Then turn the channel but we all know you won't stop watching. Fake rage.

Ha I didn't watch a game the entire season last year. Whatever, I just like watching how an untouchable sports league can come crashing down.

 

[What the Faulk]

People who think it was a bad call don't really even understand what they're upset about. It was a great, tough call by the rulebook. Your problem is with the rulebook. There's a difference. You can't just go changing the rulebook in the middle of the game.

 

[What the Faulk]

Davis is a good dude. It was a bad hit, but he's not a headhunter. He's made some questionable hits that have resulted in fines, but never anything close to what he did to Adams.

Hopefully he gets suspended for a game. He could use a week to rest at home against the Bucs who are on a short week with travel. He'd be fresher for Atlanta, which is probably going to be fairly meaningless as I don't see the Falcons beating the Saints in New Orleans on a short week with travel or losing to the Bucs with an opportunity to win the South. Panthers will almost certainly end up with the 5th seed and maybe a trip back to NO, depending on what the Rams and Vikings do down the stretch.

 

[What the Faulk]

That's such a Belichick thing to do.

 

[Hank Chinaski]

In other news..Ben Roethlisberger showing that great leadership and blaming the coaches for the fake spike. What a fatass coward. They give you the freedom to call your own plays except right then?

This isn't getting much attention with all the "what's a catch!?" talk, but yeah. Wow.

I would think the situations where you clock it are pretty much set in stone: first down with no timeouts, down inbounds with less than 15 seconds (assuming it's not fourth down), maybe on a first down with one timeout that you want to preserve. By no means an all-encompassing list there, but it should absolutely be ingrained in your offense when you spike. Probably something a rookie would know after a few two minute drills in camp.

The initial decision to clock it and subsequent decision to force it into coverage rests entirely on #7's shoulders. But instead of owning it, he throws his OC under the bus. What a tool.

 

[Captain Bowie]

Got a lot of respect for Thomas Davis for hoe he acted after that hit. I think 1 game suspension would be fair, and sounds like he would accept it and not try to appeal. To me that is a textbook game suspension hit, which is why the Gronk hit should have been 2 at least, because the intent was clearly much worse.

*Cue angry Pats fans*

 

[DangleCity]

Got a lot of respect for Thomas Davis for hoe he acted after that hit. I think 1 game suspension would be fair, and sounds like he would accept it and not try to appeal. To me that is a textbook game suspension hit, which is why the Gronk hit should have been 2 at least, because the intent was clearly much worse.

*Cue angry Pats fans*

That's the only way Pittsburgh was gunna stop Gronk, if he just wasn't on the field.

 

[DangleCity]

I can't get over how bad that final play was for Pittsburgh. All the lineman stood up including the Patriots lineman and only one of their 5 receivers went out for a pass. Bell literally never moved for the entire duration of the play. And then Rothlisberger nearly gets sacked and throws into triple coverage

 

[justafan22]

I can't get over how bad that final play was for Pittsburgh. All the lineman stood up including the Patriots lineman and only one of their 5 receivers went out for a pass. Bell literally never moved for the entire duration of the play. And then Rothlisberger nearly gets sacked and throws into triple coverage

They were confused

 

[TheMoreYouKnow]

Anyone who watches a lot of football knows that the call in Steelers/Patriots was correct. It wasn't even a particularly close call as these go. If it had been the other way around and the refs had given the TD but for the Pats the same people who complain now would have screamed it was fixed, too. (Because the NFL loves the Pats so much, yeahhh).

In the Cowboys/Raiders game, I think more than anything there was a bit of a cumulative sense that the refs were favoring the Cowboys (some quite dubious calls there, OPI, DPI, you name it).

 

[Captain Bowie]

That's the only way Pittsburgh was gunna stop Gronk, if he just wasn't on the field.

I can't get over how bad that final play was for Pittsburgh. All the lineman stood up including the Patriots lineman and only one of their 5 receivers went out for a pass. Bell literally never moved for the entire duration of the play. And then Rothlisberger nearly gets sacked and throws into triple coverage

Right on cue.

You should feel a little lucky with that one. The easy dropped INT would have ended the game. The brutal attempt to cover Gronk on the goalline, and decision to play one on one against him was brutal. The non-TD call was a tough one on James. Then the brutal attempt at the fake spike was brutal.

 

[BKarchitect]

Big Ben is as big a diva as there is in the NFL. Hall of Fame QB but every bit the whining, “woe is me”, shirking responsibility for anything diva that any receiver or cornerback in the league is.

 

[NotABadPeriod]

Not so sure the Jags will rest their starters. If they win this week a bye week would still be completely in play for them by either a Pats or PIT loss, not overly likely, but I don't think you assume and just give up.

It depends what time slot it gets. Though if the division is clinched I don't think it gets flexed to primetime. As long as it is simultaneous with the NE and PIT games they've got to play for the bye.

 

[TheAngryHank]

Wonder what the odds were for a Jax v Rams super bowl at the start of the season.

 

[PanthersPens62]

Anyone who watches a lot of football knows that the call in Steelers/Patriots was correct. It wasn't even a particularly close call as these go. If it had been the other way around and the refs had given the TD but for the Pats the same people who complain now would have screamed it was fixed, too. (Because the NFL loves the Pats so much, yeahhh).

In the Cowboys/Raiders game, I think more than anything there was a bit of a cumulative sense that the refs were favoring the Cowboys (some quite dubious calls there, OPI, DPI, you name it).

As the rule stands now, yes it was absolutely correct. That said, they absolutely MUST re-look at what is and is not a catch this off-season.

 

[What the Faulk]

I don't think there's a simple way to word it.

 

[c9777666]

Well, after what happened last Monday Night, how much a shot you gonna give the Bucs to pull a Florida upset?

 

[What the Faulk]

Zero. They're terrible.

 

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