Week 6 Discussion Thread

[ProfessaPackMan]

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I’m sure they expected the team to be bad, but also competitive and for certain guys to take strides/that next step but as a neutral observer, they look no different/just stagnant from the time Judge got there to now.

[Jeffx]

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Did Giants fans expect different?
Before the season started I thought the consensus was that they'd be competing for the top draft pick.

Not me, but I'm a realistic fan, and I was called a '*****' for telling it like it is, lol.


Gettleman should be gone now...he should not be allowed to make any trading-deadline moves.

[slickdtc]

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Oh yeah, fans get pretty much a total pass except when they physically touch a player (directly or with an object) or when in the cases where they say something so over the top that other people are disgusted (generally racial slurs), though that’s more policed by the folks around them.

I’m of the view that if you can dish it out, you better be able to take it. And I’m sure the fans giving the bird did fine eating what Rodgers fed them. But the hand wringing and pearl clutching of some on social media and regular media (I assume, I haven’t cared to look) is intense this morning. Like the world is a squeaky clean place when we’re talking about football and alcohol-fueled fandom...

[reyes the roof]

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I’m a Bears fan and I have no issue with what Rodgers did. I mean it sucks constantly being on the losing end but it’s a rivalry, or at least it’s supposed to be one.

[mestevo]

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Wild times we’re in where a player can talk **** to a fan, an offensive player can flip in to the end zone in a defender’s face, but if you’re a bit excited after a tackle, that’s taunting, brotha!

Incoming tangent

These taunting calls have changed games. **** Mara for being a whiny bitch about defensive players celebrating within reason after making a physical, potentially game changing play (as taunts usually happens on high leverage downs). It shouldn’t be hard to discern what’s over the top (Winfield’s deuces up in Tyreek’s face, guys standing over a totally lifeless body after a major hit) and what’s within reason (flexing near a dude you just stuffed on 3rd and short). We understand that spiking a ball in a defender’s face gets ya a penalty, but we still let guys throw the first down arm and finger out at or near a defender. As we should.

Let the play on the field determine the outcome of a game. Why invite more referee interference in the game? It serves no one.

Why is Mara getting all the blame for this?

I hate many of the penalties, but they also appear to be working.

[IlluminatusUIUC]

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I lived in Chicago and I heard much much worse on the L. This is the non-storiest non-story I've ever heard.

[reyes the roof]

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If teams stay healthy this is shaping up to be a pretty intriguing post season. Dallas, Green Bay, Tampa, Arizona, and LA all look to have a shot in the NFC and Buffalo, Baltimore, KC even though they’ve looked shaky and LA despite yesterday’s blowout all seem like contenders

[ProfessaPackMan]

Week 6 Discussion Thread

Why is Mara getting all the blame for this?



I hate many of the penalties, but they also appear to be working.

Probably because Mara decided make himself the face of it when he held that press conference and acted like guys were borderline disrespecting each other on a regular basis, so I can see why slick would mention his name.

“Nobody wants to see a player taunting another player”

And yes we know, he’s not THE only person that supported it either.

[adriano]

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I felt bad for Gino. Played well in the second half. Then two bad possessions
in OT. After his fumble he just layed there.

[slickdtc]

Week 6 Discussion Thread

Why is Mara getting all the blame for this?



I hate many of the penalties, but they also appear to be working.

Yeah, no doubt it’s working as players adjust. Similar to other safety measures the NFL has taken over the years. May also be the case of refs being instructed to identify and eliminate it before the season and as things wear on, they don’t or lose focus of it because there’s an actual game to be officiated.

But man, that one on the Eagles was disgustingly bad. Avery was a little extra in his post tackle, actually a good example of what I consider toeing the line without crossing it, but then Fournette got up on him. And we know Fournette has no issue taunting the defenders (remember his “bring it on” wave at PIT?). But how come Fournette’s physical bump goes unpunished and Avery’s cost the Eagles a chance at a stop and a tie/win? Usually it’s opposite that a physical reaction and a reaction at all gets the flag. It felt wrong, if we’re gonna be ticky tacky then it should’ve been offset. But taunting only seems to apply to the defense besides the spike/throw ball at a defender situation.

I blame Antoine Winfield Jr for the spotlight on taunting, specifically by defenders. Hopefully it fades or rather that players adjust quickly and just celebrate with their teammates because it’s not fun as a fan for a team to be robbed out of a chance because a guy’s adrenaline got the best of him. As a fan, I’m jumping around or making comments in a natural reaction way and the players are being expected to contain that. Just feels unrealistic to the degree they’re asking.

[Keirik]

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Don’t forget the part where fans go beyond typical trash talk and start flipping the bird, spitting at athletes, throw trash at them and call them any name they please(speaking across all sports, not just the NFL)and we laugh it off but as soon as a player responds back, we clutch our fanny packs and go “How dare you!?”

A fan flipped Rodgers the double bird and he proceeded to talk his ****, which he earned the right to since he scored and because his team was winning. Bears Fans got a problem with it, then tell your team to stop letting him own y’all ***es.

Well no one threw garbage or spit as far as I know. There definitely is a part where it’s on the Bears to not allow this moment to happen but he’s a HOF QB. If it were that easy he wouldn’t be a HOF QB. His celebration wasn’t a reaction to fans. He goes right into the discount double whatever before even looking at fans and immediately engages fans. It just wasn’t necessary.

My gripe though is less to do with Rodgers since I dont expect much class or humility from him and more to do with my team for allowing it and then peeling off to let him smack talk the fans. Not one player did a thing after Green Bay tried to decapitate Fields. Not one player did a thing when Rodgers taunts the fans. Ultimately, Rodgers still does own us and probably will way into his 50s lol.

[cima]

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[dubcity]

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House always wins eventually, bro. [emoji1]

[cima]

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[slickdtc]

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This is the exact recipe for a Titans upset: Buffalo making mistakes (hold nullifies a TD) and King Henry going early. Titans defense is bending but not breaking completely. Tough to keep that up for 60 minutes, but it’s what they need to do.