2019 NFL Week 6

[Shadowlight]

I gotta admit Preston Smith is exceeding my expectations but Za'darious Smith is no better than Frackell. In limited snaps, he had a number of pressures and half a sack. Bringing in two brand new edge rushers was a total slap in the face to Frackell

Tess is earning my trust. Booger, who has gone off the rails, didn't even mention Fackrell during a sack in which Kyler was most responsible for but Tess interjected and corrected the situation.

In fact the Pack D is about the same as last year with Martinez as the anchor. All this blow hard talk about the "Smith brothers" is out of whack. In his limited minutes last night Fackrell was beyond good. He made several stellar plays at the most crucial moments.

Of course the media is oblivious but the reason the Pack are winning games again has more to do with a healthy Aaron Rodgers. He was banged up all of last season. He showed last night his mastery and why he is considered one of the all time greats. When it comes to mobile QBs I will still take Rodgers over Mahomes and his non athletic build or even Wilson. Cripes the same dude that fumbled the punt had a sure TD bounce off his head for an interception. If he was white his nuts would have been removed.

On the first "blow to the head " call if you watch closely right before he jammed his hand into his neck he slugged the Pack OL. One can dispute the second "head call" but I didn't think it was legal to apply a choke hold for more than a couple of seconds either. Booger who was howling, is getting worse by the week.

Either way Aaron Rodgers came through but I have one question for Bucky? Why the hell were the Pack wearing their road uniforms? Didn't care for that move.

 

[wile]

I agree Shadow the first hands to the face and even the second could have been called IMO.

 

[wile]

Yeah Williams was told by his teammates in the huddle about not taking it in for a TD that was in his post game interview. And that Booger guy does shade the broadcast with his biases, other than that I don't think he is a bad color commentator. I'll have to find his twitter BS and let him know to up his game and not go full Chrissie.

 

[Don Wassall]

The next step may be to make all penalties subject to review not just pass interference, which will make the games fairer but will also drag them out even more, especially given that penalties are seemingly called on almost every play anymore.

 

[Don Wassall]

After a sluggish first three games, Nick Vigil has been tremendous. He has 11, 13 and 13 tackles the last three games for a total of 37, 24 of them solo tackles. Yet another outstanding White linebacker who toils in near anonymity, or worse yet at times is the target of DWFs and the Caste media.

Another example is Josey Jewell, who had 14 tackles in the season opener yet was mostly criticized as he'll never be forgiven for not running a 4.5 or better at the Combine. Jewell had a hamstring injury and in Week 5 a black rookie named A. J. Johnson took his place and also had a very good game with 13 tackles. And now of course the hive is howling for Jewell to be permanently replaced by Johnson. And so it goes. . .

 

[Shadowlight]

The next step may be to make all penalties subject to review not just pass interference, which will make the games fairer but will also drag them out even more, especially given that penalties are seemingly called on almost every play anymore.

This sounds radical and luddite but I could live without instant replay. The game was fun back when. It is an imperfect world. Sure there were some screw ups but hell at the end of the day is this slog preferable? These penalty interruptions are turning games into a slow gruel.

They will never go back to the old days where refs had to take more control but they keep making it worse by reviewing every other stinking play. This could rot fan interest and it tests my patience like all get out.

 

[sprintstar]

longer game, more brainwashing tv commercials, more revenue....

 

[Shadowlight]

Indeed these "delays" add up to more commercials.

Back in the day before video review people woke up, had their pancakes on Sunday morning and couldn't wait for the Sunday and Monday NFL games. No one thought the team that won the Super Bowls got there because of bad calls. So this is really seeing the forest through the trees type of thing at least for me. The best teams won despite no video replay.

The only sport where the video works without huge disruptions is tennis with hawk eye. I also think in college football head shot reviews to determine if a player gets kicked out should probably stay. Other than that I say trash the videos in baseball, the NFL, NBA and NHL.

In the NFL I would add an extra referee and allow refs to overrule plays on the field without the video. This "overrule" shouldn't take long. In baseball I would add an extra umpire and in basketball and hockey I would add an extra "sideline" referee.

General rule of thumb is the "mistakes" get washed out over the course of the season and no team ends up getting royally screwed. Yes their are obvious big game instances one can point to like the Cards Royals world series where the Royals were kept alive on an atrocious first base call.

But even with video replay they still get it wrong at times.

Of course I am spitting in the wind here but our technocratic society and nerd based anal retentiveness thinks that getting all the calls "right" ( which they don't) trumps the regular enjoyment of games.

The purpose of sports is to provide entertainment. These stumbling sputtering games tied down by video reviews screws up the natural flow of sporting events turning them into an accounting sessions.Often it feels like 15 minutes is being used up as refs contemplate a video review. And then nearly half the time the home crowd boos the decision if it goes against them anyway since the video was a bit "inconclusive."

When the master robots kill off the entire human race we can look back at these insipid video reviews in sports as yet another example of how we became slaves to technology.

I sound like some crazed hippie from a cave but these dreadful delays in games are becoming absurd. Hell baseball complains about their length of games and then institutes video replay. Morons.

It would also spare us the "expert" referee in the booth commentary where half the time they give the wrong call anyway. Waste of time, space and breathable air.

 

[Don Wassall]

Indeed these "delays" add up to more commercials.

It would also spare us the "expert" referee in the booth commentary where half the time they give the wrong call anyway. Waste of time, space and breathable air.

The ref as part of the broadcasting crew has quickly become mandatory with nationally televised games. The first one was Mike Carey, the articulate former black ref who distinguished himself by wrongly predicting the outcome of challenges just about every time. He was gone the next year, but the other "refs in the booth" also get it wrong quite a bit, which tells you that even with all the review angles to look at subjectivity still plays a large role and can't be eliminated from the process. So yeah, ever more lengthy reviews, ever more commercials, and ever more penalties by players who can't be taught fundamentals because they're too dumb or just don't care.