Did anyone notice how many times Brady said “you know” during his press conference? I lost count at 50…
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And the Pats scored 28 points, the Colts scored 0 point during the second half.
He was trying to inflate.
Which is immaterial (RE post # 2001)
That’s the same thing Belichick said. 
Does that mean you’re not so fond of me? I know very little about football, and zero about the person you’re mentioning other than that a number of people on this thread don’t seem to think highly of him.
- Colts player who supposedly started this thing says he never noticed anything, that he found out about this when he was back in Indy.
- This entire thing is a terrific example of 2 things: the way the internet blows up the insignificant and the way people latch on to something about the game because truth is they have nothing meaningful to say about it.
- Since I try to have something to say that's not just my own warped perspective, I looked at the teams Seattle faced. I realized this is the list of teams (and the QB's) they've faced after they lost to Dallas and St. Louis. It isn't impressive:
- Barely beat Carolina 13-9. Cam Newton. Whoopee.
- Beat the fearsome Raiders 30-24. Rookie Derek Carr.
- Beat NY Giants. Good QB sometime but the Giants were dysfunctional beyond words.
- Lost to KC. Their QB basically never completed a TD pass to WR nearly all season.
- Beat AZ. The immortal Drew Stanton at QB.
- Beat SF. Colin (incapable in the pocket) Kaepernick at QB.
- Beat Philly. Mr. Butt Fumble Mark Sanchez at QB.
- Beat SF again. Team spiraling down as people realize Harbaugh is most definitely gone.
- Beat AZ again. This time the unknown Ryan Lindley is QB. Wow.
- Beat SL. Instead of decent unknown Austin Davis at QB, they have the leftover Sean Hill.
- Playoffs: Cam Newton again. He was better: 250 yards, 23-36 but bad decisions (as usual)
- Aaron Rodgers. Great QB playing on one leg in the rain and wind.
This is a roster - until Rodgers, who should have won despite having one leg - that is somewhere between mediocre to poor.
Going back to the same week 8, NE has played Jay Cutler, Peyton Manning, Andrew Luck (2x), Matthew Stafford, Philip Rivers, Joe Flacco and Ryan Tannahill. The dogs would be NYJets QB’s Vick and Smth and maybe Buffalo QB Kyle Orton, though he was at least average this year. They lost a close game in GB to a healthy Aaron Rodgers and didn’t bother to show up for the meaningless end of year loss to the Bills.
This is a real difference in the level of competition. Maybe Seattle is as good as people claim. Maybe some of it is the quality of the teams they’ve played, particularly the often incredibly bad passing attacks.
Befuddled. Wish you well, Mokusatsu.
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No credit for beating Peyton once and Rodgers twice this season or the “incredibly bad passing attack” of Manning in last year’s Super Bowl? It seemed that a one armed Sherman still did just fine against a one legged Rodgers.
I started with week 8 because the early games don’t say much about late games in a season. I don’t think about last year. I know that Denver was overwhelmed last year. Key words “last year”. I’ve seen Peyton for 15 years. I expected that against many teams.
Since “spygate” was mentioned, the actuality is that taping was legal until the league sent out a memo limiting where it could be done from, meaning it could only be done from above and definitely not field level. The NFL sent out a memo to this effect in September 2006. The dispute arose because the rule appears to speak about advantage during the game being played: “…any communications or information-gathering equipment, other than Polaroid-type cameras or field telephones, shall be prohibited…including without limitation…any other form of electronic devices that might aid a team during the playing of a game”. That’s how Belichick says he interpreted the rule: that taping for use at a later time was ok (and it is ok if it’s done from the locations allowed, meaning anywhere covered up top). The advantage for taping from the field is clarity, not content difference; you could train a camera on the defensive sidelines from above. Belichick was punished for disobeying the league’s memo, which is how the league interpreted the rule and thus for breaking the rule as extended or clarified. I have no doubt taping continued until defensive radios were set in place. It may still be done and it is legal if it’s done from above.
The rest of the “scandal” is the Boston Herald put out a piece just before the Super Bowl that claimed the Patriots might have taped the Rams walkthrough in 2002. This was per an anonymous source. There is a whole bunch of stuff about that in Boston, meaning why they ran the story, etc. They had to retract it. The gist of the decision to run the story is the Herald worried someone else would grab the scoop. There was never a shred of evidence to this and the NFL’s own investigation found the Patriots’ video equipment - which was set up to tape their walkthrough - had no power or batteries and couldn’t operate. It may that the videotaping assistant Matt Walsh said “we should have taped that” - as many sources have noted - and this became distorted. Or it may be that Walsh encouraged the story to make himself a more easy sell. Walsh, for example, claimed he had a confidentiality agreement that didn’t exist, claimed he had tapes which he didn’t have, etc. Walsh was fired when the VP of Player Personnel found Walsh had secretly taped their conversations - which is a felony, btw, here. So maybe he’s that kind of guy. Maybe he was looking for something. Maybe whatever. I think the Herald was stupid: we’re more aware now that anonymous in the internet age means it could be absolutely worthless.
Anyway in the 2007 season, taping ended in the 1st quarter of the 1st game. Again, it wasn’t the taping that was illegal but the location where the taping occurred. But it’s a great excuse for jealous fans and bad losers like Marshall Faulk and some of the Steelers who can now believe they somehow should have won when they lost.
As I like to say, at least NE didn’t erect a statue to a guy involved in a double murder. (When Aaron Hernandez was arrested, NE cut him that day, taking the salary cap hit - which they get out of next year.) NE doesn’t have a rapist as QB.
can anyone explain to me why the NFL is so affronted by Lynch checking his privates, when virtually every baseball pitcher does the same thing constantly and I’ve never heard of them being fined for it?
Steps back in for just a moment. If that was a personal attack, Mokusatsu, please refrain from that in the future. I’m a pretty friendly person, and I work hard to get along with people on here. If I miss the mark it’s probably inadvertent.
"Befuddled. Wish you well, Mokusatsu.
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Not tackling…just helping to clarify. I think Mokusatsu’s comment was merely a generic joke about your comment, nothing personal. Kind of like, “That’s what she said”. The same comment might have been made in response if any of us had said the right punch line for the joke.
Now we have Crotchgate as well. Chris Matthews was fined $11, 025 for shaking hands with Marshawn after the touchdown (along with Doug Baldwin and JR Sweezy. The league feels that he was actually grabbing his crotch which would be really weird while holding another man’s hand in a public place. This is getting cray-cray.
http://www.sbnation.com/nfl/2015/1/22/7875527/seahawks-chris-matthews-fined-11k-obscene-gesture
Tom Pelissaro of USA Today (who must have a bone to pick over Lynch not talking to him) took a screen shot of Matthews’ hand along with Marshawn’s hand clasped in a shake down low and says that Chris just did a two handed grab when he went up to congratulate the other three hand shakers. I get why they don’t like Lynch’s gesture, but come on! This is just pathetic.
If you scroll down to the still that he posted from the video you see Sweezy’s white glove, Baldwin reaching in from the left and Matthews and Lynch’s hands meeting in the middle behind the white glove.
Matthew left arm is reaching out around the back of Lynch and Lynch’s right arm is reaching into the frame. He is thinking or wanting us to thing that where they overlap is a very strangely placed elbow and that it is all Williams’ arm just bent in a funny place.
And for that 11k!
@Deborah T - the comment that concerns you seems actually very silly and light hearted to me and not at all intended to be mean. It was not a jab at you, as busdriver explained, but one of those things were your comment so perfectly mirrored Bill Belichick’s presser that it was too neatly set up to let go. (also followed by a new emoticon winky face for comic emphasis).
What next, crotchgate? I don’t know, is it just me, or is the NFL pretty over controlling and power hungry, fining people for all this silliness?
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