Week 6 NFL Game Thread
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What's that now? 7 turnovers between the teams, and 19 accepted penalties through 3 quarters? How the fuck the Eagles are routing the Giants with 4 turnovers is unbelievable. Good God, this is hard to watch. The college game is showing on a weekly basis that it's a better product, and I never thought that would be possible.
I'm think the reason the NFL spent $5M to suspend one of the few QBS who can play this game, is that he makes comparisons with most of the others about impossible to ignore.
soxhop411 said:
There have been plenty of competitive games, like 6 went to overtime in the past 2 weeks.
What we haven't had are games filled with actual good football. The league is regressing, and so are it's players. This game is to football what Jar Jar Binks was to Star Wars.
I'm not even sure I know what the answer is. Everyone is complaining about the refs throwing too many flags, but the reality is the players are committing these penalties. As we saw last night in the Pats games, when the refs didn't throw the flags on Indy in the first half, it artificially allowed their offense to stay on the field. Then they started throwing the holding flags in the second half and the Pats pass rush was all over Luck. We can't have it both ways and bitch about the flags, and then bitch when our team doesn't get the penalties that it should.
This isn't saying anything about the inconsistent calls, particularly on Pass interference, or what is a catch, what isn't, what is a fumble, what isn't. That's a different discussion, and another reason the NFL is such shit right now, but at least when it comes to the number of penalties, I have a hard time blaming the refs. This is a failure of the coaches and the players. Does anyone know what the numbers look like league wide, for total penalties? It feels like it's gotta be double what it was 5 years ago, but maybe we're all totally wrong.
Deathofthebambino said:
This is only a week 3 comparison, but ESPN has 730 accepted penalties up to week 3 in 2015, compared to 627 in 2010. Definitely up, not double though.
Is the rise in penalties a "failure of the coaches and the players" though? Perhaps more teams are following the Seahawks' supposed style from a couple of years back, where the idea was to play a physical style, with the reasoning that "the refs can't call a penalty on every play" ("Oh yeah?" - refs). So many teams run rub routes and picks that are close to OPI, for example. Could the penalties be a byproduct of a style of play that, to be effective, constantly runs close to penalty situations?
How else to you expect the Giants to keep that "pull a Super Bowl win out of their ass every four years" streak alive?Stitch01 said:
I don't really have a point here, but the Giants talk had me thinking about old man Coughlin, so I looked up the ages of current head coaches. This is the best that I found. Of course Philbin isn't there any more, and 1 year needs to be added to the ages of everyone except those born after Oct 19.
Tom Coughlin is the oldest head coach in the league, at 69. Of course older doesn't mean much, as the 2nd and 3rd oldest head coaches met in the Superbowl last year.
Again, no point, just thought I'd share some (possibly) interesting data.
Tom Coughlin is the oldest head coach in the league, at 69. Of course older doesn't mean much, as the 2nd and 3rd oldest head coaches met in the Superbowl last year.
Again, no point, just thought I'd share some (possibly) interesting data.