NFL: 2014 Season News and Discussion Thread
#922
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Bryant definitely got robbed on that overturned call. That rule is fugging stupid, taking 3 steps and reaching for the end zone isn't a football move? And since when can the ground cause a fumble? Stupid rule change. (I hate Dallas, but couldn't believe they overturned that)
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This is the best football move they made all year
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My NFL Mobile app says John Fox is out in Denver.
I'd say Peyton played his last game yesterday. He's not going to want to break in a new coaching staff.
I'd say Peyton played his last game yesterday. He's not going to want to break in a new coaching staff.
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I mentioned that yesterday as it was being speculated on the newswire. Fox out, other coaches out, free agency for some big players........... Why would Peyton want to come back to all of that??
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Joy to the World, the Cowboys lost.
While winters frost has suddenly hit us hard, the new year is already ripe with reason for celebration. This week the sun shines a little bit brighter, food tastes just a little bit better, and a stranger's scowl during the morning commute seems just a little bit less menacing. The world is a happier place this week, as the Dallas Cowboys were eliminated from the NFL playoffs.
Here's a toast to the Green Bay Packers, who put the football team with the silver star out of our misery. And it really is all of our misery, as the folks who inexplicably have selected the Cowboys as their rooting interest are a fungus-among-us; they exist from coast to coast, bringing out old Starter jackets and reciting Tony Romo's fantasy value like it somehow excuses the fact that they've never stepped foot inside the city of Dallas.
That's right. A majority of Dallas Cowboys "fans,"... a majority you've met, anyway... probably couldn't find Dallas on a map of Dallas County. The reason so many Cowboys fans exist who have never actually been inside the Lone Star State is because, quite frankly, they're a bunch of front-runners.
Take, for example, New Jersey Governor Chris Christie. Tell me, how does a man born in Newark, New Jersey, who claims to love the New York Mets, the New York Rangers, and the New York Knicks, also find himself rooting for the Cowboys of Dallas? Simply, because he's a bandwagon fan. Governor Christie was born in 1962, meaning he was just a wide-eyed 9-year-old when Roger Staubach and Tom Landry won the Cowboys a Super Bowl in 1971. Christie had just turned 15 when that combo delivered a second, and he was just into his thirties when the Aikman-Smith-Irvin Triplets starting delivering Lombardi's on the reg, though his soul was likely already bought and paid for by then.
It is this sort of bandwagon-mentality en mass that makes these Cowboys fans so easy to hate. The team you root for is not something you can choose because of record; that is an affront to the Sports Gods, and in that religion, many Cowboys fans are serial sinners.
Of course, when it comes to rooting for someone as dislikable as Dez Bryant, that kind of mindset may be required. The Cowboys hotheaded wide receiver, talented as he may be, has one skill set above them all; he has an incomparable ability to make NFL fans from every wok of life scream at their television screens in unison "Oh my gawd, dude, you are so freaking annoying!"
Watching Bryant's antics on the gridiron is comparable to observing a child throwing a temper tantrum. You know, the kind you spot at the mall or a TGI Fridays. Your gut wrenches as you wonder, "Why isn't this kid mature enough to know how to act in public?"... though those feelings often manifest in the words "Shut up, shut up, shut up!" And through that pit in your stomach, there may be an ounce of sympathy for the parents of this childish-outburst. That is, until you start succumbing to the reality that the entire train wreck of a scene is the result of heavy parental enablement.
Which brings us to the alleged parental supervision over this circus, Mr. Jerral Wayne "Jerry" Jones. The fact that Jerry Jones exists defies reality. A billionaire oil-man who bought a football team in Texas and eventually meddles it into mediocrity, firing anyone and everyone but himself? It's lazy writing, is what it is. Jones stands as the strongest piece of evidence that the entire NFL is fake, because he is quite simply too good to be true.
Jones appointed himself the Cowboys GM about 12 minutes after he bought the team over a quarter century ago, and he will remain in that post until he vanishes from this mortal coil. No matter how unsatisfactory the results continue to be, Jones will never, ever replace himself with someone even remotely qualified... which is hilarious, considering the one thing Jones seems to desire more than being the face of the franchise is the idea of being the face of a championship franchise.
Happily, even with a successful 2014, the 'Boys are nothing more than the league's middle-of-the-pack. In the past 18 seasons under Jerry Rule (postseason included), the Cowboys are 149-141 with just two playoff wins (one coming a week ago under serious protest). To put it in mathematical terms, the Cowboys under Jones are the NFL's mean.
The glorious endgame, of course, is that if Jones continues to fail as a general manager and an owner, then the fans like Christie will eventually cease to be. Front-runners searching for a winner won't pick the Cowboys -- they haven't been, for nearly 20 years now -- because the Cowboys aren't winners. Jones' mediocrity is driving the worst kind of Cowboy fans into extinction. That's what we should be most thankful for.
Never change, Jer.
Here's a toast to the Green Bay Packers, who put the football team with the silver star out of our misery. And it really is all of our misery, as the folks who inexplicably have selected the Cowboys as their rooting interest are a fungus-among-us; they exist from coast to coast, bringing out old Starter jackets and reciting Tony Romo's fantasy value like it somehow excuses the fact that they've never stepped foot inside the city of Dallas.
That's right. A majority of Dallas Cowboys "fans,"... a majority you've met, anyway... probably couldn't find Dallas on a map of Dallas County. The reason so many Cowboys fans exist who have never actually been inside the Lone Star State is because, quite frankly, they're a bunch of front-runners.
Take, for example, New Jersey Governor Chris Christie. Tell me, how does a man born in Newark, New Jersey, who claims to love the New York Mets, the New York Rangers, and the New York Knicks, also find himself rooting for the Cowboys of Dallas? Simply, because he's a bandwagon fan. Governor Christie was born in 1962, meaning he was just a wide-eyed 9-year-old when Roger Staubach and Tom Landry won the Cowboys a Super Bowl in 1971. Christie had just turned 15 when that combo delivered a second, and he was just into his thirties when the Aikman-Smith-Irvin Triplets starting delivering Lombardi's on the reg, though his soul was likely already bought and paid for by then.
It is this sort of bandwagon-mentality en mass that makes these Cowboys fans so easy to hate. The team you root for is not something you can choose because of record; that is an affront to the Sports Gods, and in that religion, many Cowboys fans are serial sinners.
Of course, when it comes to rooting for someone as dislikable as Dez Bryant, that kind of mindset may be required. The Cowboys hotheaded wide receiver, talented as he may be, has one skill set above them all; he has an incomparable ability to make NFL fans from every wok of life scream at their television screens in unison "Oh my gawd, dude, you are so freaking annoying!"
Watching Bryant's antics on the gridiron is comparable to observing a child throwing a temper tantrum. You know, the kind you spot at the mall or a TGI Fridays. Your gut wrenches as you wonder, "Why isn't this kid mature enough to know how to act in public?"... though those feelings often manifest in the words "Shut up, shut up, shut up!" And through that pit in your stomach, there may be an ounce of sympathy for the parents of this childish-outburst. That is, until you start succumbing to the reality that the entire train wreck of a scene is the result of heavy parental enablement.
Which brings us to the alleged parental supervision over this circus, Mr. Jerral Wayne "Jerry" Jones. The fact that Jerry Jones exists defies reality. A billionaire oil-man who bought a football team in Texas and eventually meddles it into mediocrity, firing anyone and everyone but himself? It's lazy writing, is what it is. Jones stands as the strongest piece of evidence that the entire NFL is fake, because he is quite simply too good to be true.
Jones appointed himself the Cowboys GM about 12 minutes after he bought the team over a quarter century ago, and he will remain in that post until he vanishes from this mortal coil. No matter how unsatisfactory the results continue to be, Jones will never, ever replace himself with someone even remotely qualified... which is hilarious, considering the one thing Jones seems to desire more than being the face of the franchise is the idea of being the face of a championship franchise.
Happily, even with a successful 2014, the 'Boys are nothing more than the league's middle-of-the-pack. In the past 18 seasons under Jerry Rule (postseason included), the Cowboys are 149-141 with just two playoff wins (one coming a week ago under serious protest). To put it in mathematical terms, the Cowboys under Jones are the NFL's mean.
The glorious endgame, of course, is that if Jones continues to fail as a general manager and an owner, then the fans like Christie will eventually cease to be. Front-runners searching for a winner won't pick the Cowboys -- they haven't been, for nearly 20 years now -- because the Cowboys aren't winners. Jones' mediocrity is driving the worst kind of Cowboy fans into extinction. That's what we should be most thankful for.
Never change, Jer.
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The NFL should go through contraction with the Fackers.
Yes, I love them THAT much.
Yes, I love them THAT much.
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I didn't think he was actually from Philly. I'm just saying that he sounds EXACTLY like the continuous diatribe I hear from the sports talking heads in Philly.
It gets tiring and actually has the reverse effect. I can't stand da iggles in any shape or form. I root FOR who ever da iggles play each week.
Just thinking about it...it seems to be only centered on the iggles. When talking about the Phillies, Sixers, and Flyers the hatred and venom doesn't seem to appear. I guess the iggles brings out the worst in Philly fans and media.
It gets tiring and actually has the reverse effect. I can't stand da iggles in any shape or form. I root FOR who ever da iggles play each week.
Just thinking about it...it seems to be only centered on the iggles. When talking about the Phillies, Sixers, and Flyers the hatred and venom doesn't seem to appear. I guess the iggles brings out the worst in Philly fans and media.
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The Flyers bring out the hatred in everyone
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Lebron is like that too. Favorite teams are OSU, Cowboys, Yankees even though he's from Cleveland. When he was young who was winning all the rings or was very good.
It's just a sports team
It's just a sports team
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I hate to bring this back up, and wish I would have responded yesterday. BUT,
I don't understand. How did he drop the pass/ball?
I don't have a horse in the race either since the Broncos can't win when it counts. My curiosity and confusion come from a pure love of sports and feats of athleticism.
I don't have a horse in the race either since the Broncos can't win when it counts. My curiosity and confusion come from a pure love of sports and feats of athleticism.
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#945
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I hate to bring this back up, and wish I would have responded yesterday. BUT,
I don't understand. How did he drop the pass/ball?
I don't have a horse in the race either since the Broncos can't win when it counts. My curiosity and confusion come from a pure love of sports and feats of athleticism.
I don't understand. How did he drop the pass/ball?
I don't have a horse in the race either since the Broncos can't win when it counts. My curiosity and confusion come from a pure love of sports and feats of athleticism.
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Two hands:
Attempting?
After which, it never touches the ground and he regains possession without going out of bounds. Maybe my idea of what a "drop" is isn't what it actually is?
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You're right we don't. Same as several other professional players, coaches, and writers that thought the same thing and wanted to have it changed after the Megatron ruling.
The funny thing about the NFL is that they tend to take iffy plays like this and try to put a one size fits all rule to avoid controversy, and instead create controversy. See the tuck rule for example. Even Pereira mentions the tuck rule.
Dez Bryant didn't make catch in Dallas Cowboys' loss: 'Nobody likes this rule' but that was not a TD - Mike Pereira | FOX Sports
The funny thing about the NFL is that they tend to take iffy plays like this and try to put a one size fits all rule to avoid controversy, and instead create controversy. See the tuck rule for example. Even Pereira mentions the tuck rule.
Dez Bryant didn't make catch in Dallas Cowboys' loss: 'Nobody likes this rule' but that was not a TD - Mike Pereira | FOX Sports
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It's not a catch cuz...he black.
If he white, it's a catch.
Oh yeah...I just went there.
If he white, it's a catch.
Oh yeah...I just went there.
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You're right we don't. Same as several other professional players, coaches, and writers that thought the same thing and wanted to have it changed after the Megatron ruling.
The funny thing about the NFL is that they tend to take iffy plays like this and try to put a one size fits all rule to avoid controversy, and instead create controversy. See the tuck rule for example. Even Pereira mentions the tuck rule.
Dez Bryant didn't make catch in Dallas Cowboys' loss: 'Nobody likes this rule' but that was not a TD - Mike Pereira | FOX Sports
The funny thing about the NFL is that they tend to take iffy plays like this and try to put a one size fits all rule to avoid controversy, and instead create controversy. See the tuck rule for example. Even Pereira mentions the tuck rule.
Dez Bryant didn't make catch in Dallas Cowboys' loss: 'Nobody likes this rule' but that was not a TD - Mike Pereira | FOX Sports
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Haha - I read Fox maybe talking with Da Bears
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I'm hoping to god we don't see Belicheat make it past the Colts this weekend. Watching them lose and/or Tom Brady crying would make my weekend .
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About the only reason I can see him coming back is the strained/torn quad that he played the last 3 weeks + the playoffs on. It explains why he dropped off as badly as he did at the end of the season. If he doesn't come back, Denver is going to fall off a massive cliff next year, with all the changes about to happen.
I'm hoping to god we don't see Belicheat make it past the Colts this weekend. Watching them lose and/or Tom Brady crying would make my weekend .
I'm hoping to god we don't see Belicheat make it past the Colts this weekend. Watching them lose and/or Tom Brady crying would make my weekend .
In terms of the Pats - I'm a Pats fan so say what you want about Belichick, there is no denying his record, statistics or ability to pick players and manage personnel. Yes there was the scandal about illegal filming of signaling, but that was one incident. He has been coaching for years........
John Harbaugh didn't like the four man offensive line formation with the RB declared as an neligible receiver the Pats used against his team. Was it unorthodox - yes, illegal, no. Chuck Pagano reached out to the head NFL official and was told the same thing. By the rules, what Belichick did was 100% legal and he reported said they do a great job of managing groups of personnel and keep their opponents on their toes.
Don't be hating.......
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Bowles to Jets and Garrett gets a 5 year extension with the Cowboys.
Broncos are in trouble too. Lots of free agents including D. Thomas, Orange Julius, Welker, and Tamme. An interesting offseason coming their way.
Broncos are in trouble too. Lots of free agents including D. Thomas, Orange Julius, Welker, and Tamme. An interesting offseason coming their way.