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NFL (2017 Season)

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It'd be interesting if they installed sensors on the ball. Gforce and touch sensors could establish control on receptions. Millimeter precision location receivers could spot ball placement.
And cant forget the tpms for Brady's shenanigans
 
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Jake said:
Because you don't know the rule. When a receiver is going to go the ground he must maintain possession throughout the process, end zone or not. I don't like it either, but that's the rule.

As for Pittsburgh getting fucked, boo hoo hoo. The poor things have never benefitted from a call, ever. I'll shed a few tears for them. :roll1::roll1::roll1:
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That’s a pretty stupid stance to take considering the team that benefited.
 
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BuckeyeNation27 said:
Is it, though? Why isn’t it dead once he crosses the goal line? He had clear possession and made a football move. And if that’s not a catch, why is the one the next play a catch when the player didn’t get out of bounds? The ball came out after he hit the ground. What’s the difference?

Pittsburgh got fucked....and as usual it’s the Patriots who benefit.
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The rule sucks and all of us except the rulemakers are aware of it.

I think the best way to show that the rule is BS is to talk about a scenario where a New England player knocked the ball out of his hands between the time that he had the ball above the goal line and the time his arm hit the ground and caused the bobble. Wouldn't they have said that he had possession, "made a football move", and had the ball in the end zone prior to the fumble, thus making it a TD? He'd be down by contact since his knee was down before he reached across the goal line.

If somebody has possession long enough to make it a TD prior to contact with another player, he has possession long enough to make it a catch prior to "completing the process" while "going to the ground". That's the crux of the BS in the "catch" rule.
 
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Between the Steelers-Patriots and Raiders-Cowboys I'm on schadenfreude overload this morning.

Steelers fans laughed when "the process of the catch" robbed Dez Bryant of a game-saving catch at Green Bay in the 2014 playoffs. DOH! :lol:

Raiders, the inventors of the holy roller, crying about the touchback rule on a fumble through the end zone. Here's a thought: don't lunge for the pylon. :slappy:
 
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Once again the NFL is trying to do the right thing by suspending Carolina’s Davis for his hit on GB’s Adams for two games. Yet, I can’t help but see the absurdity in the suspension due to the lack of consistency with other hits where there are no suspensions. The hit on Flacco stands out the most to me on this.
 
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buckeyebri said:
Once again the NFL is trying to do the right thing by suspending Carolina’s Davis for his hit on GB’s Adams for two games. Yet, I can’t help but see the absurdity in the suspension due to the lack of consistency with other hits where there are no suspensions. The hit on Flacco stands out the most to me on this.
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Gronk's hit was 10 times as dirty as what Davis did. Then again, Gronk plays for the Pats.
 
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