It's only a problem when it's called on your team...like most penalties...
The 2025 NFL Season Discussion
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I think we all see the game a bit different . I actually sit back, and just enjoy the game . I don't have any control over the outcome or the calls . To me it usually works out both ways for your team ,and against . Sure they are drive killing calls , convenience when it directly impacts a running back to have a clear path because of holding ? Or a rusher from getting at the quarterback ? I don't understand the beef . A lot of holding sure ,but most of the time its called when it impacts the play , thats the way I see it ,and not against a team I'm cheering for . Yup ,I see it differently .
Amen !!! just enjoy the game , or turn the channel to golf .
Oh I definitely (usually) enjoy the games. Thankfully, the Seahawks games have been mostly ok as far as officiating. Not without their bad and questionable calls, but nothing where I crossed over into "SOMEONE IS CONSPIRING AGAINST THEM!" Those calls and patterns have been happening elsewhere. But really only in the last couple weeks. Season started off so good with that.
I don't usually see the Seahawk games , not a local team for me ,it's usually the Broncos .
As said I just don't critique a game close enough to see any conspiring . Besides I usually record all the games on Sunday ,and blast thru them unless they are a close competitive game , so I miss most of the the conspiracy stuff . 
The NFL has huge contracts with those companies showing the games. More so than those spring leagues. They want these games to fit in a 3 hour time slot. These are complicated contracts involving what games are shown where and wether they start on time in certain areas or not when a previous game goes into overtime. As far as the NFL not having any of it, they indeed incorporated new rules adapted from some of the other leagues. Kick offs? One thing I would like to see brought over from another league is allowing receivers to move towards the line of scrimmage before the snap.
I don't. They can go downfield and block for a runner but not a receiver? Utter bullshit. This rule has made for RPO plays that far too often result in lost yardage. The same with QB scrambles - one of the most exiting plays in the game when the QB pulls it off. It puts too much onus on the linemen wearing helmets that wrap most of the way around their heads to keep track of what is going on behind them. WTF?
My other pet peeve is holding. Why can't they hold? What is wrong with it? If you don't like being held, break free! If it is slowing the progress to sacking the QB, well, that is the lineman's fucking job - protect the QB. If you are a receiver getting held then next time don't let the guy get near you.
I actually miss Rob. Hoping he joins us again at some point.
He's around, he posted just on Sunday.
Ya , why not just let all the offensive lineman grab , and hold the defensive linemen, doesn’t take a lot , and then we could see more 10-15 yard running plays on every down . Ya let’s change the rules what were they thinking.
They could make 'em wear those base stealing mitts!Ya , why not just let all the offensive lineman grab , and hold the defensive linemen, doesn’t take a lot , and then we could see more 10-15 yard running plays on every down . Ya let’s change the rules what were they thinking.
I think they should be allowed to have fish bats, 5 irons, or at least a rock in a sock…they do have helmets, don’t they?
Thought he was deported...
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