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I'm sure that they will find some other legal, but unethical tactic to pull out again next year, and that will get banned too. They're like the real life equivalent of the video games players who figure out things like nano-blitzes and zig-zag cheese.Jordan Mychal Lemos
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Do this today: Instead of $%*#!@& on a game you're not going to play or movie you're not going to watch, say something good about a piece of media you're excited about.
Do the same thing tomorrow. And the next. Now do it forever.Comment
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I don't understand why the XP needs to be messed with.
It sucks, it's boring, but it's part of the 7. I really don't care to see it messed with.Comment
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The Browns are in such disarray. It's not even funny anymore. ( I know the article also mentions the Falcons, but at least they're competitive)
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I think it could've stayed if they improved the way the eligible receivers were announced in a no huddle situation like that, but I don't really care either way.
Teams will still be able to do the same things they always have, they just won't be able to line an ineligible up outside of the tackle box.Comment
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Because this aspect of the game has evolved way beyond the original intention of the founding fathers. When they drew up the rules, I don't think they were considering the synthetic surfaces or advanced equipment of today, nor that specialized players would be devoting their lives to the craft beginning in their youth. They definitely weren't looking for a 99.7% success rate.Comment
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The founding fathers also didn't imagine quarterbacks actually throwing the ball downfield to people.
It's not like this is the only aspect of the game that has grown.
I would be okay with an automatic 7 with the option for a 2 point conversion instead but don't see the need to make the extra point longer than what it currently is.Comment
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Agreed. But still, if we were were barbecuing in the back yard and made up some kind of frisbee game where one task had a 99.7% success rate, pretty quickly we would say "Wait, this it stupid, we need to make this harder". Aside from the billions of dollars the NFL brings in, I don't see much of a difference.
If OS was around back in 1994 when the NFL adopted the 2pt conversion rule, this forum would have freaked out.Comment
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I feel like something that can make a one score game into a two score game when it comes to a touchdown versus a field goal should be pretty easy.
It's more difficult for a team to score a touchdown then a FG. They should be rewarded by that with the extra point differential.
I don't ever think two 50 yard field goals should equal one touchdown.Comment
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For once I agree with Belichick. First Lesnar face turn now Belichick face turn?
Bill Belichick reportedly wasn’t happy that one of his NFL playing rule proposals was tabled for research. Belichick wants the league to install fixed cameras to all boundary lines to aid instant replay, but the NFL previously has said it would be too costly to carry out. So Belichick went on a profanity-laced tirade against the league during the NFL Annual Meeting in Phoenix, ESPN’s Adam Schefter reported on “Olbermann.”
“They were in a meeting the other day with Dean Blandino, the head of the officials,” Schefter said, via ProFootballTalk. “And Bill Belichick got up there, and in profane language, told the NFL: ‘We spend money to send the Pro Bowl to Brazil, we spend money to go overseas to London, but we can’t spend money to have four cameras in the end zone, four cameras to help determine the correct call in the end zone on certain plays?’ He went off, and the way it was explained to me, from people in the room at the time, they were laughing at it because his language was so profane and because he was so incensed about it, and the NFL didn’t know how to handle it.
“But the bottom line is, they did not introduce the four cameras in the end zone, they thought right now it’s too cost-prohibitive for the NFL even, and they don’t know how to do it. They’ll probably continue to look at this, but Bill Belichick left these owners’ meetings not particularly happy.”
Belichick said Tuesday during the AFC coaches breakfast, in which he was particularly salty and unhelpful to reporters, “It’s disappointing every year we can’t afford that, as a league.”
Belichick has plenty of reasons to be angry. NFL owners voted to ban the use of ineligible players outside the tackle box Wednesday in direct response to a tactic Belichick used in the Patriots’ AFC divisional-playoff win over the Baltimore Ravens. They also passed a rule that a player who appears disoriented on the field can be taken off for a play by a spotter in the press box — and that rule has been nicknamed after Patriots receiver Julian Edelman, who briefly appeared groggy after being hit during the fourth quarter of the Super Bowl.
Owners also rejected Belichick’s proposal that would allow coaches to challenge penalties. NFL owners haven’t yet voted on Belichick’s proposal to kick extra points from the 15-yard line.
I don't see how the NFL is making money hand over fist yet can't afford end zone cameras.Comment
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Troy Polamalu having a press conference Thursday. I'd like to see him back for cheap, but my money is on him hanging it up.Comment
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Belichick being so adamant about more cameras should make everyone leery.For once I agree with Belichick. First Lesnar face turn now Belichick face turn?
I don't see how the NFL is making money hand over fist yet can't afford end zone cameras.
Is it really about costs though?Comment
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