No kidding. I like the idea of the throwback uniforms. I like the idea of remembering the past when playing today. Ultimately though, I understand that it’s really all about moichandising (May the Schwartz be with you). But if it’s about merchandising, what fan is going to want to wear an ugly jersey like that to a football game or to the bar?
I don’t want to be the guy who always rails on the officiating, but the Dallas and Indy games easily cost the Browns wins. I suppose you probably end up on the wrong end of calls more often if you’re a bad team, but those were just over the top ridiculous. If those games were called by the replacement refs, there’d be screams for heads ot roll.
On the bright side, those games will come in handy at the end of the year when you’re figuring out draft position for next year. 2-8 so far will more likely put you in the top 7 drafting and 4-6 might push you out of the top 10. With those bad calls, Jarvis Jones or Star Lotulelei are looking much more likely.
You’re talking about Pittsburgh fans. Ugly is probably a selling point.
Except that nobody would be watching.
Dear ESPN: No matter how much you push your QBR metric (“which is a measure of everything a quarterback a does and when he does it”), nobody is going to go for it. Please, just give it up.
Yeah, like that ‘horsecollar’ that set the Browns up at the end of the game…
:rolleyes:
Welcome to Big Boy football Chicago Bears.
Yeah that’s definitely Jason Campbell. I haven’t seen him play since he left Washington and he still hasn’t lost that deer-in-the-headlights, I’m-doing-my-best-to-pretend-to-look-like-I-know-what-I’m-doing look on his face.
I think we are staring down the real possibility of a shutout.
And San Francisco is going to be looking at a qb controversy tomorrow after this.
How is campbell in the game after that sack? Was that not an injury timeout, meaning he has to sit out a play?
It was a penalty on the defense - a player injured by a foul doesn’t have to sit out.
ETA: Not that Campbell was injured by the foul, but a penalty on the defense gives the offense a mulligan.
Looks like Ed Reed will sit for a game.
Ah. Was not aware of that, thanks.
That was a good old fashioned ass whuppin’ right there. That Aldon Smith scares the hell out of me and Kaepernick looked like the real deal. Meanwhile the Bears find that not every team is the Titans and lay a huge egg in primetime. A fun game to watch.
If we’re thinking the same play, it WAS a horse-collar. I agree the rule is BS, but the rule exists.
Grabbing the hair is legal, plus he had a hand around front.
Here’s an analysis of the Ward/Ogletree Call, with animated GIF.
The animated gif has too few frames and goes too quickly - if it were slower you could see there’s never any helmet to helmet contact, and if you can’t hit shoulder to shoulder or shoulder to chest, what the fuck can you do?
James Harrison, is that you?
James Harrison head hunts. He deliberately hits helmet to helmet. What Ward did would’ve been considered a textbook hit 10, maybe even 5 years ago, but the NFL has become a bunch of pussies. There was nothing dirty at all about Ward’s hit.
The fact that Ward has, himself, accumulated a few illegal hits in his brief NFL career probably doesn’t help. He’s not on a level with Harrison, but he has a bit of a reputation. That one in Dallas was a hard hit. Was it violent? Most hard hits are, but hard hitting is not illegal.