2014 NFL Season **OFFICIAL THREAD**

Yeah, I'd say it's the offensive line, especially when they can't push for an inch. Alex is a good quarterback, I wouldn't blame him.

Alex Smith is a really good QB. Not much separated him and Rodgers when they were drafted. We screwed him over with a new OC every season and West Coast offense instead of shotgun. With a good defense and a good offensive line Smith could win a ring if he was allowed to run a shotgun offense.
 
"Bad calls" never go in the Redskins favor but their opponents get away with penalties and worse constantly. The refs taking away Griffin's td over a 'judgment call' was the last straw for Moss, who has been on the team for like 10 seasons and watched it happen season after season. Fans have too. Opposing teams breathe on Peyton Manning the wrong way and get flagged. Opposing teams go after Griffin's legs and refs look the other way. Then they take away his td on a judgment call that would have given them the lead. Nope, not allowed. But then the Redskins beat the Eagles (clearly a much better team, by record at least), thus setting up the Cowboys big "win and in" game today......where their 10-4 opponents forgot how to play the game suddenly.

Playoff teams are predetermined before the season even starts (offseason owner's meetings....could call it the NFL Bilderberg meetings?) and everything from week 1 to week 17 is about making it happen for maximum profit to the league and owners, whether it's general revenues, ratings and/or public money to owners for various stadium projects. As always, follow the money. The rigging to get this predetermined outcome becomes more obvious later in the season when you see certain teams (ahem Indy) forget how to play the game suddenly and help usher in another predetermined team (ahem Cowboys). Or like Brian noticed, horrendous officiating. It's not accidental. DAL/IND is an example I noticed today but it's fairly obvious to see it in action if you can separate yourself from any "team spirit" and realize it's simply a business and is run no differently than governments are. The schedules are set up to ensure these match-ups late in the season. You see the same principle in elections.

I called the cheating all the way when the Patriots won their 3 Super Bowls. A few years after Goodell gets the tapes of them cheating and simply destroys them without us learning a damp thing and nothing really in the way of punishment for the Patriots. The Refs giving Bettis a ring as a retirement present, etc.
 
Seahawks are definitely hitting their stride at the right time of the season- and yes, I am worried that Denver may have to play them again. That could happen as early as the second round of the playoffs.
 
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Seahawks are definitely hitting their stride at the right time of the season- and yes, I am worried that Denver may have to play them again. That could happen as early as the second round of the playoffs.

A SB rematch? Oh no! The Seattle Eyes of Horus vs. The Denver Pale Horses?
 
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I called the cheating all the way when the Patriots won their 3 Super Bowls. A few years after Goodell gets the tapes of them cheating and simply destroys them without us learning a damp thing and nothing really in the way of punishment for the Patriots. The Refs giving Bettis a ring as a retirement present, etc.

Nothing new. Elway got a retirement present that way--in both the year he was just thinking of retiring and the year he actually did it. And NASCAR did as much for Richard Petty.

Seahawks are definitely hitting their stride at the right time of the season- and yes, I am worried that Denver may have to play them again. That could happen as early as the second round of the playoffs.

Maybe you should stick to the English Premier League.

It has been some time since the Seahawks were in the AFC West. If they see Denver again, it'll be in the very last round of the playoffs, in a game with the initials SB.
 
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Hey. Makes at least as much sense as six years of claims that the FRN isn't losing value and the economy is making measurable gains daily. And even easier to disprove, too.

But it is a pity he doesn't stick to remarking on things he knows a little truthful and useful information about. I'm sure I'm not the only one around here woefully ignorant about cricket.
 
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Nothing new. Elway got a retirement present that way--in both the year he was just thinking of retiring and the year he actually did it. And NASCAR did as much for Richard Petty.



Maybe you should stick to the English Premier League.

It has been some time since the Seahawks were in the AFC West. If they see Denver again, it'll be in the very last round of the playoffs, in a game with the initials SB.

That's probably why 90s NFL was so awesome to me. I was too young to catch on to the cheating yet and didn't know the rules nearly as well as I did when the Patriots started cheating in 2001.
 
That's probably why 90s NFL was so awesome to me. I was too young to catch on to the cheating yet and didn't know the rules nearly as well as I did when the Patriots started cheating in 2001.
I hate to break your heart, but our two teams benefitted from many questionable calls in the 90s. It was almost orchestrated that there would be a Cowboys/49ers NFC Championship at the end of the season. Since I don't live in Dallas, I don't have a lot of people around me making excuses for the Cowboys....and the people who live around me were in the 49ers division at the time. I was able to see everything with an objective point of view. Yes, football was still fun in the 90s....because if they're not cheating for your team, they're cheating for someone else's....it's a lot more fun when they're cheating for you.
 
I hate to break your heart, but our two teams benefitted from many questionable calls in the 90s. It was almost orchestrated that there would be a Cowboys/49ers NFC Championship at the end of the season. Since I don't live in Dallas, I don't have a lot of people around me making excuses for the Cowboys....and the people who live around me were in the 49ers division at the time. I was able to see everything with an objective point of view. Yes, football was still fun in the 90s....because if they're not cheating for your team, they're cheating for someone else's....it's a lot more fun when they're cheating for you.

So true!
 
Oh and since you mentioned NASCAR they handed Jimmy Johnson all 6 of his championships. I stopped watching any NASCAR after the 2nd year in a row Jeff Gordon let Johnson pass him for the win over and over.
 
I hate to break your heart, but our two teams benefitted from many questionable calls in the 90s. It was almost orchestrated that there would be a Cowboys/49ers NFC Championship at the end of the season. Since I don't live in Dallas, I don't have a lot of people around me making excuses for the Cowboys....and the people who live around me were in the 49ers division at the time. I was able to see everything with an objective point of view. Yes, football was still fun in the 90s....because if they're not cheating for your team, they're cheating for someone else's....it's a lot more fun when they're cheating for you.

Makes sense. I mean we only met in abut 6 NFC championships in 14 years :p
 
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Would be weird if the NFL adopted "Top 12 by record get in playoffs" instead of current system. Heard they're trying to push for a Top 16 playoff format for the NBA since the East pretty much has never fielded more than 3-4 competitive teams.
 
LOL they thought they were going to push him out of bounds

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looks like the ref's aren't a factor to be considered by the Seahawks...10 penalty's and they still destroyed the Cards...


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