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  • StocktonShortsS StocktonShorts wrote on
    #8

    Usually when they're trying to enforce some kind of rule change they will over emphasize it during the preseason and throw flags constantly, and then by mid season it's pretty much back to how it used to be. They just want the players to not use their hands on each other down the field on a pass.

  • cambridgehoC cambridgeho wrote on
    #9

    Those penalties will slow the game down to a crawl. Its still going to be onesided during the game though.I know Haden and Skrine use that little jersey pull a lot.

  • cambridgehoC cambridgeho

    Those penalties will slow the game down to a crawl. Its still going to be onesided during the game though.I know Haden and Skrine use that little jersey pull a lot.

    JAFBFJ JAFBF wrote on
    #10

    @cambridgeho said:

    Those penalties will slow the game down to a crawl. Its still going to be onesided during the game though.I know Haden and Skrine use that little jersey pull a lot.

    Yeah, that's something else I was thinking, and may well validate what StocktonShorts saying about them easing up on the call as the Season progresses.

    The big problem is that it'll probably get heavily enforced at the worst possible time . . . looking at the N.E. game last year.

  • The GipperT The Gipper wrote on
    #11

    Well, jeez, if we go by the attitude of FIFA and these soccer suckers, then we should be changing the rules to make defense be predominate because, after all, 0-0 ties are just so darn exciting.

  • jrb12711J jrb12711 wrote on
    #12

    Not the best place to put but there's something I wanted to say about the NFL. Did anyone else see how the redzone is now advertised? The preseason Ravens 49ers game had a gigantic Verizon logo stuck right in the entire redzone.

  • miktoxicM miktoxic wrote on
    #13

    cowboys need a new coaching staff.

  • miktoxicM miktoxic

    cowboys need a new coaching staff.

    JAFBFJ JAFBF wrote on
    #14

    @miktoxic said:

    cowboys need a new coaching staff.

    As per the Pre-Season norm, Weeden looked decent in the game.

    Still think we should have kept him as our 3rd/4th string QB, definitely seems like he'd be better than what we've got at the position currently.

    'Course there's the new "play like a Brown" mentality - which likely he doesn't have anyway . . .

  • miktoxicM miktoxic wrote on
    #15

    and mccoy looked like an all-star for the skins last night..........not kidding.

  • miktoxicM miktoxic

    and mccoy looked like an all-star for the skins last night..........not kidding.

    JAFBFJ JAFBF wrote on
    #16

    @miktoxic said:

    and mccoy looked like an all-star for the skins last night..........not kidding.

    Yeah, he had like a 150 QBR.

    I liked McCoy though, never thought he had the talent around him to fairly evaluate him though.

    ComeonmanC 1 Reply
  • miktoxicM miktoxic

    why they have to tinker and try to fix something that isn't broken has always been confusing to me whether it be football or anything else.

    i mean mcdonalds had the best french fries and they had to fuckin change them cuz people's hearts were exploding? c'mon man.

    ComeonmanC Comeonman wrote on
    #17

    @miktoxic said:

    why they have to tinker and try to fix something that isn't broken has always been confusing to me whether it be football or anything else.

    i mean mcdonalds had the best french fries and they had to fuckin change them cuz people's hearts were exploding? c'mon man.

    My thoughts exactly. The changes they continue to make are for the worse
  • JAFBFJ JAFBF

    @miktoxic said:

    and mccoy looked like an all-star for the skins last night..........not kidding.

    Yeah, he had like a 150 QBR.

    I liked McCoy though, never thought he had the talent around him to fairly evaluate him though.

    ComeonmanC Comeonman wrote on
    #18

    @jafbf said:

    Yeah, he had like a 150 QBR.

    I liked McCoy though, never thought he had the talent around him to fairly evaluate him though.

    Why do mediocre QBs (especially ours) look so much better in preseason I wonder. Are the opposing defenses just not playing hard?
  • ComeonmanC Comeonman

    @jafbf said:

    Yeah, he had like a 150 QBR.

    I liked McCoy though, never thought he had the talent around him to fairly evaluate him though.

    Why do mediocre QBs (especially ours) look so much better in preseason I wonder. Are the opposing defenses just not playing hard?
    JAFBFJ JAFBF wrote on
    #19

    @comeonman said:

    Why do mediocre QBs (especially ours) look so much better in preseason I wonder. Are the opposing defenses just not playing hard?

    Yeah, they're playing against generic Defenses.

    Teams don't want to show too much of what they're going to do during the regular Season, so they pretty much play a generic Defense - primarily to have a base line for evaluating players for cuts.

  • miktoxicM miktoxic

    why they have to tinker and try to fix something that isn't broken has always been confusing to me whether it be football or anything else.

    i mean mcdonalds had the best french fries and they had to fuckin change them cuz people's hearts were exploding? c'mon man.

    T Taco918 wrote on
    #20

    @miktoxic said:

    why they have to tinker and try to fix something that isn't broken has always been confusing to me whether it be football or anything else.

    i mean mcdonalds had the best french fries and they had to fuckin change them cuz people's hearts were exploding? c'mon man.

    I can't tell if that's a subtle shot at the NFL for not doing more about concussions or a legit opinion but I laughed regardless.

  • KvoetheK Kvoethe wrote on
    #21

    Every ex brown turns into a hall of famer

    Browns149B The GipperT 2 Replies
  • KvoetheK Kvoethe

    Every ex brown turns into a hall of famer

    Browns149B Browns149 wrote on
    #22

    @kvoethe said:

    Every ex brown turns into a hall of famer

    except Tim Couch, Willie Green, Charlie Frye, Courtney Brown,

    And let's not forget about the GREATEST QB EVER Brady Quinn

    "And they don't really know even what they're talkin' about And I can't imagine what empty heads can achieve."
  • Browns149B Browns149

    @kvoethe said:

    Every ex brown turns into a hall of famer

    except Tim Couch, Willie Green, Charlie Frye, Courtney Brown,

    And let's not forget about the GREATEST QB EVER Brady Quinn

    T Taco918 wrote on
    #23

    @browns149 said:

    except Tim Couch, Willie Green, Charlie Frye, Courtney Brown,

    And let's not forget about the GREATEST QB EVER Brady Quinn

    Let's be honest, Couch probably deserves a hall of fame nod just for taking a beating most players in the 40's would've considered excessive.

    👍
  • A Adoug319 wrote on
    #24

    They might as well let the recievers run with no defenders.... Flags every time

  • KvoetheK Kvoethe

    Every ex brown turns into a hall of famer

    The GipperT The Gipper wrote on
    #25

    @kvoethe said:

    Every ex brown turns into a hall of famer

    Name one that played after 1970?

  • The GipperT The Gipper wrote on
    #26

    VesnaKociper said:

    It's a double edged sword. Fans want winners, fans want excitement, and to sell tickets these guys have taken more and more drugs. The collisions are huge and so are the lawsuits. It is not going to get any better and football they way it was played even in 1990 is not going to come back.

    Many of the rules allow receivers to run less encumbered than before, which means more high speed crashes. Despite the hitting rules, guys will get hurt, and hurt badly... then more rules, more lawsuits will apply. If you think the game will ever get better, or return to a more recognizable form, you are kidding yourself.

    Possibly true.

  • IbleedbrownI Ibleedbrown wrote on
    #27

    Hate to admit it, but it's an extremely flawed game and way too subject to what a ref sees or doesn't see, and how they interpret that.

    Every year you see a play where a holding penalty gets called, and one of the announcers makes some comment about how a holding penalty could be called on virtually every play.

    There's just too much to keep track of and too much room for error.

    And replay can't fix everything. You're still trying to see where a ball is within a mass of humanity, except it's a mass of humanity in slow motion.

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