**OFFICIAL 2015 NFL SEASON THREAD**

Indy Vidual said:
Pain, injuries, bread and circuses.... Oh, what a waste!
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I brought up the front page of Yahoo news this morning , top two articles were the Brit Princess & Kloe Kardashian . So , yeah , guess I will work with football , LOL
 
cajuncocoa said:
There was a tense hour or two here in New Orleans as a rumor floated around that Drew Brees might be out for the season due to a torn rotator cuff. But word just came down via Mort Report that his rotator cuff is bruised. Everybody can exhale.
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Well , he may miss a few games , or not , and they are 0-2 , so are the Giants . If I had Brees or Eli and was 0 -2 , I would be making sure I did not have alot to clean out of my desk .....until I remembered who I get to play the rest of the yr
 
Huh. I hadn't thought about it that way, but I guess he did go through the rest of the NFC East, didn't he? :mad:

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Yesterday I was reminded why I stopped watching the Tennessee-Florida games, today I was reminded why I shouldn't watch Titans-Colts games.
 
JK/SEA said:
any bears fans in here?...
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I'm not but if I were I'd be pissed about that review that took away an obvious punt return turnover that would have put the Bears in the red zone early in the game.

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Almost forgot to post this:
http://www.cbssports.com/nfl/eye-on...om-brady-serves-4-game-suspension-this-season

When a federal judge vacated Tom Brady's four-game suspension three weeks ago, it pretty much took the air out of the Deflategate scandal. The NFL could -- and would -- appeal the ruling but Brady was going to play this season for the New England Patriots and there wasn't a thing the league could do about it.

But Craig Carton, the co-host of Boomer and Carton on WFAN, said Friday that he was with a "very influential person in the NFL" on Thursday, and that the person told him "there's no doubt in his mind" that Brady will in fact serve a four-game suspension this season after the NFL's appeal is heard.

Typically, the appeals process could take 10 months, according to a Boston Globe report from earlier this month, or if the case is expedited it could take a little over half of that. Best case, that would put the hearing in February or March.

Boomer and Carton co-host Boomer Esiason offered this in response to Carton's comments:

"What this person doesn't realize [is] that they all felt the same way prior to Judge Berman's ruling. But what they didn't know is that Judge Berman was going out to the Hamptons to hang out with [Patriots owner] Bob Kraft. ...

"I don't buy it. I know they want to expedite an appeal, but there's so many other things on the docket at these courts. Is this really that important to somebody? I know it's important to the NFL."

Put another way: The NFL faces an uphill battle to have Brady serve any suspension this season, a reality the league fully understands:
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JK/SEA said:
yep...bears a shitty team. Not my problem.

refs help?...wouldn't have made a difference.

1-2 is still better than 0-3..

lions next.
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What? Of course it makes a difference. That moment alone let the Bears know they were not going to be allowed to win the game. Why bother to play hard when the refs tell you from the start that you're going to lose whether you like it or not.
 
devil21 said:
What? Of course it makes a difference. That moment alone let the Bears know they were not going to be allowed to win the game. Why bother to play hard when the refs tell you from the start that you're going to lose whether you like it or not.
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lol...i thought the game was a pretty normal officiated game. Replays kept things fair. I actually thought the Seahawks got a few bad calls, but...26-0 against a pretty good bear defense proves the Seahawks are starting to mesh inspite of bam-bams hold out, and a 'yet to gel' offensive line...
 
devil21 said:
What? Of course it makes a difference. That moment alone let the Bears know they were not going to be allowed to win the game. Why bother to play hard when the refs tell you from the start that you're going to lose whether you like it or not.
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7 first downs total, 10 punts, still punting when down 20 points in the 4th quarter facing 4th and short. Oh and the Special Teams for the second week in a row allowed a kick off return where the returner was completely untouched.


How about those Patriots... Scoring on all 9 offensive possessions. The "Kill Everyone" tour is off to a great start. I don't think its too soon to start the 16-0 discussion.
 
Well, it looks like the 49ers might as well call it quits. Winning teams have smart coaching and smart players. The 49ers now have neither.
 
The NFL and referees have gone full retard on what constitutes a catch this year.

The NFL bobbles another TD catch

WHAT IS A CATCH: The NFL still has no idea what constitutes a catch, even after messing around with the semantics of the rule book this spring. Bengals tight end Tyler Eifert scored what looked like a touchdown. Except it wasn't, and he joins Calvin Johnson and Dez Bryant on the list of aggrieved receivers. The NFL clarified the call, but it doesn't change the fact that the rule sucks.
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Dean Blandino, the NFL's vice president of bloviating and bullshitting, backed the call during a Monday morning appearance on NFL HQ...

Tyler Eifert: I don't know if anyone knows catch rule

The rules on what constitute a catch might change, but the search for true clarity continues.
Every game, all season

The latest example came Sunday in Baltimore, where Bengals tight end Tyler Eifert saw an apparent touchdown reception overturned upon official review. On a fourth-and-goal from the Ravens' two-yard line, Andy Dalton targeted Eifert, who caught the pass with his back to the goal line, turned toward the end zone and stretched his arms across the plane of the goal line. He then lost the ball as he fell on top of a Ravens defender.

The on-field officials signaled touchdown. The decision to overturn the call meant a turnover on downs. The parallels to Dez Bryant's catch/non-catch in January's NFC divisional playoffs were obvious.

"I don't know if anybody really knows what the right call is," Eifert said after the game, per ESPN.com.

Dean Blandino, the NFL's vice president of officiating, backed the call during a Monday morning appearance on NFL HQ.

"(Eifert is) hit just as his second foot hits the ground. To become a runner you got have the ball longer than two feet down, you got to have to have the ball long enough to do something with it, avoid contact, ward off an opponent," Blandino said. "And if it's all that one action and he's going to the ground, even if he reaches, the requirement is to hold on to the ball when he lands and he didn't and that's what made it incomplete."

CBS cameras captured an annoyed Marvin Lewis after the touchdown was wiped away, effectively costing the Bengals a 21-0 halftime lead. Lewis, a member of the league's competition committee, supported the call after the game.

"You have to possess the football and give it to the official. That's what I tell our guys all the time," said Lewis. "Reaching for the goal line, if you haven't completed the catch, you're not a runner yet. So that's what they deemed: he wasn't a runner yet. He has to hold onto the football."

Which is all well and good, except for the part where common sense is shown out of the room. Eifert caught the pass, turned his body and reached the ball past the goal line. It's a touchdown that disappears into the Bermuda Triangle section of the NFL rulebook.
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Well, maybe next decade. Unless the Chiefs find yet another San Francisco reject quarterback.
 
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Another weird part of the catch rules I saw yesterday- if the receiver catches the ball in the air and lands with his 2nd toe inbounds, it will be ruled incomplete if his heel rolls down out of bounds. But if he drags his toe out of bounds, it is ruled a completion.
 
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