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Wow, what a great game last night. Penn State and Notre Dame had a back-and-forth battle that came down to a last-second field goal. Notted up at 24, Notre Dame kicked the game winner with 10 seconds left. A great matchup between the 6 and 7 seed, two teams that not many people expected to be in the semi-final. Congrats to Notre Dame and kudos to both teams for showing up big when the stakes are high (sideways glance at the Vikings).
Vikings News
The Vikings @ Rams wild card game has been relocated to Arizona due to the L.A. Wildfires, per Vikings.com. They also have a wild card game preview, and the Vikings @ Rams injury report.
NFL News
Aaron Glenn of the Lions will be interviewing with 5 teams this week for their head coaching jobs, but he declined to interview with the Patriots, per Boston.com. Oh, you mean firing the head coach after one season might deter other coaches from wanting to coach there? Wow, @shocking@.
NFL.com has an injury report for all teams playing in the 2025 wild card round.
CBS Sports has a tracker where you can keep up on the latest hirings and firings around the NFL.
Media Selection
Gobekli Tepe is fascinating, I like things that make all the pompous, arrogant “experts” eat crow. Here’s Graham Hancock discussing it on Joe Rogan. Enjoy!
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My expectations in today’s NFL matchups:
Chargers over the Texans, and Ravens over the Steelers.
Ohio St wins 28-14.
Buckeyes vs the Catholics for the championship.
B1G represented but no SEC.
Sounds good to me.
Great play at the end by Sawyer.
Strip sack TD for 83 yards.
Texas vs The Ohio St in the Cotton bowl.
Winner to face The Catholics in the Championship Game.
I am a B1G guy so Ohio St, especially with Penn St going down yesterday.
That being said I spent a lot of time in Texas, Ft Hood and Ft Bliss. I can’t hate them so I will survive if they win.
Ohio St with the 75 yard TD after Texas tied the score with 29s left before halftime.
14-7 Ohio St at the half.
83 yard scope and score with about 2m left to seal the deal for Ohio St.
Would Texas have done better with a Manning under center?
Crazy thoughts for a 58 year old…”Hmm, Arizona is only a 24 hour drive from here, and I could stop half-way and see mom, and I would have a place to stay for free in Glendale”……
‘Just Do It’.
High-def. Own crib.
Go for it!
Offered my son in Bismarck airfare and tickets to the game for his birthday in a few weeks. He declined as I knew he would as he is a Cowboy fan.
I did say that he and his wife were thinking of going to Dallas at Denver next year, maybe we could meet there.
Cowgirls vs Buttholeface? Probably not so much the game but meeting them is do-able.
Yep, I would think Bismark to Denver is around 10 hours…you probably are a little farther? I have been to the Denver stadium about 3 times now. It’s O.k. The horse sounds get a little annoying but I am sure that is what people say about the SKOL chant.
We want to go to the Buc-ee’s just north of Denver it has 160 fuel pumps, We enjoy the Bus-ees’ in Texas when we were last there. So there is room for negotiation.
Rams say 35,000 tickets were bought by their season ticket holders for AZ in pre sale.
Didnt know LA had that many fans to begin with.
Refs may feel sorry for LA.
Back from the dentist. I get to get a crown. I’m not sure how that is going to help my teeth.
It doesn’t.
It makes the dentist richer.
Expert gouging.
Sniffer whistled in Oval Office today to get attention of press. I’m going to miss his antics.
Maybe some Cardinal fans rather not like the Rams. Hope some Purple fans show up too.
Zuckerberg told Joe Rogan on his Podcast that FJB officials were ‘screaming and cursing’ his employees in order to get then to censer post that disagreed with the Adminitrations stance.
No matter you hate FJB and the crap his cronies pulled it is not enough.
https://www.foxnews.com/media/zuckerberg-tells-rogan-biden-admin-would-scream-curse-his-employees-demanding-censorship
Free speech is a threat to democracy don’t you know?
More like a threat to the Wokes Power that they had.
Tickets to the Vikings game are going for 40 dollars upper deck, 150 to 200 lower deck.
Almost makes a guy want to by a cheap ticket and fly down.
If only I wouldn’t have lost that 500 dollars in my wallet.
Shit, right. Would be really nice to have those 500 dollars back for the trip.
wow, really? hmmm.
i don’t think you got me a christmas present…i’d allow you to buy me a vikings ticket and fly me down there.
thank you
You buy two plane tickets, I’ll buy two game tickets. Beer’s on me the whole trip.
Seems like a lopsided agreement since Freezey doesn’t drink.
No kidding? Doesn’t he get really dehydrated?
shhhh
RT flight to Phoenix…..$800
Minot to Phoenix is much much cheaper, but I would have to stay until Wednesday. About $320
Group of buddies found tickets for $182 out of biz.
Take the blonde and introduce her to the woes of being a Viking fan.
Yeahhh, that wont be happening at this juncture. Also its too last minute for me.
Good plan, and then you would have to save money buy sharing a room!
Yeah, not any time soon.
Just wondering if I am doing some hard ass or wrong headed thinking.
First I feel for those folks in California and their losses. Looks like pure hell watching TV.
Yet, listening to the news, the state did little to prepare for this. Didn’t cut back brush and clean up forests. didn’t build reservoirs to collect water and the list goes on and on.
And today the CA Legislature is meeting to allocate $25 million to “prepare for Trump presidency.”
Now, for all this mismanagement and misuse of resources, all the rest of “us” citizens are (will) being asked to pay for this mess.
This just doesn’t strike me as right.
NC got a loan from the feds.
FL got a loan from the feds.
Biden said the feds will pay for everything for Cali for the next 6 months.
Yea and Florida and NC sure as hell prepare a lot better for these types of events than CA. It’s like they know they are coming and do nothing about it.
And FEMA just closed up housing for NC hurricane victims.
Said they only had a certain amount of time.
Was it Georgia that came out a day or two to remind everybody that they needed to get their property taxes paid and that natural disaster was not an excuse to not pay your property taxes (on the home you no longer have)?
I heard that as well.
Not sure if it was Georgia or NC.
I saw the video and think it was GA, but not 100%.
Either way, it’s ridiculous.
Yes. Yes it is.
Just curious. Where and how does Biden get the money to do this?
It is just an ‘obligation’ to be added to the debt. They would not actually pay for it, that is more of a conservative problem to solve.
Doesn’t the Congress have to appropriate funding – like to a FIMA account – then the President can authorize it’s release in time of crisis. Didn’t think he can ‘create’ money so to speak.
FEMA couldn’t get thru hurricane season. Migrant crisis demanded money. I’m sure FJB like to make Cali a Conservative problem.
FJB is passing out gifts to his ‘friends’ while he waddles out the door.
Commiefornia has the government they voted for.
Hope DJT can pull back some of those gifts in a couple of weeks.
*cough* Katrina *cough*
That’s when New Orleans was part of Florida.
.
Can we say that these wildfires are karma for Hollywood and left wing woksters, or is karma only limited to hurricanes in the redstates?
i thought the fires were happening because of all the cow farts and diesel trucks
I’m curious how far things will go into the arson direction once the smoke clears.
i voted for trump. therefore I AM THE ARSON
I’ve seen reports today that the LAPD is investigating them as arson. Supposedly an HOA sent out a letter saying the LAPD is investigating them as arson targeting rich neighborhoods. Could all be internet fodder though.
Also heard the homeless start fires and use them to keep warm and cooking. Fires get out of control.
No way they would do that when it’s windy and cold. It’s not like they have ever burnt any infrastructure down before.
Some 40% of all fires LAFD responds to were started by the homeless.
Doesn’t mean at these were but it is a possibility.
Would think any type of camp like fire in 100 mile per hour wind would be just asking for it.
Those winds can carry embers miles, hard to combat that.
People are stating that it is arson but the police say that is false.
https://www.foxnews.com/entertainment/california-wildfires-police-shoot-down-celebrities-floating-arson-theories
There have been arrests for arson.
I think two.
Now, that will get buried by the media.
Saw a report about at least one guy getting arrested for arson. Of course the media will bury it, can’t blame “climate change” otherwise.
Nope, already saw the argument that you can have arson AND climate change.
Winter fires are a new thing in California ya know.
Correct. It wouldn’t burn unless the climate made it dry.
climate change forces the unhoused to start fires
You truly are wise
They will try to peddle that narrative, if they haven’t already.
Would say in red states like Florida, we DO try to prepare for Hurricanes. And then when one happens, the state’s response is usually first rate.
Yeah, but FL is an evil racist state.
So there.
Well Keith Obermann says we should celebrate anytime a conservatives house burns down so it seems like it is ok to say.
https://www.foxnews.com/media/olbermann-urges-fellow-liberal-psychologically-batter-conservatives-who-have-fled-homes-due-la-fire
You get what you vote for.
Look at some of those aerial shots it reminds me of Hiroshima and Nagasaki.
Newsom/Bass have this one, no worries.
You can just expect a nice jump in your home insurance rates. Something like $50 billion in insurance losses.
A large chunk of the people losing their homes don’t have insurance because the government tried to cap insurance rates so the insurance companies just pulled out of Cali.
Yes, that is over and above the $50 billion dollar in insurance losses.
I didn’t pay off my house there because the lender (CalVet) coordinated for the insurance at a discount.
If I had paid off the mortgage I would have had to find my own and it would have cost a lot more.
Originally I was going to pay it off early but the insurance situation changed all that. The difference in insurance was much more than the interest on the loan at that point.
That’s just crazy.
Yup.
And it was only getting worse.
And that was even before these latest LA fires.
Careful, might be called out for being a literal demon/ Hitler clone for a comment like that.
All Pro is a pretty high bar.
They have to be the best at their positions in the NFL.
Greenard for sure. High pressure rate and sacks. He is at least second team IMO.
Don’t know the rest of the players at his position in the NFL to know.
I am glad that we have him regardless.
Van Ginkel is better than that.
FTR!
And there were some who wanted us to offer him that huge, long term contract.
Bullet dodged, poor Cleveland.
In hindsight yes, but put 2019 Watson on the 2019 Vikings and bet we get past the 49ers.
My son and I argued about this. He wanted Watson and I kept telling him he wasn’t worth the money or the picks, definitely not both.
To me the cost was almost a side issues.
He is a crap human being so I didn’t want him on my team.
The fact that he would have cost us so much was a secondary issue.
I agree, I did not want him on the team because of his actions either.
Agree. Avoid perverts at all costs.
Are they going to overpay Kirk or Sam next year?
Another kick in the groin, for the Browns Fans…
Every time I think Vikings fans have it bad I think of those poor bastards.
‘I felt sorry for myself because I had no shoes and then I saw a man that had no feet’.
If you don’t have feet, you don’t have to spend money on socks and shoes.
And your toes won’t get cold when you’re ice fishing.
Phantom pain/feelings are a thing you know!
For a while a few yrs back, if one asked Siri “where is sadness”, it would show a pic of Browns’ stadium. Who ever programmed that was probably a Browns fan.
WTF??
LOLOLOLOL……..
His latest happy ending tore his Achilles?
Thanks for your service. JJ, you’re up.
Nope.
2 years max, maybe with some ‘option years’ if he proves to be ‘all that’.
Oof, that is a lot. Seems like too much for Sam.
Bye bye Sammy…..
We can still tag him for 1 year about $40M.
Sure.
Or Transition tag for slightly cheaper I think.
But being tagged is now a slap in the face to players.
So having a disgruntled starting QB on the roster probably isn’t the best play. IMO.
Sam would have to be onboard, agreed.
Sam wants to stay.
He wants a big payday.
Vikings what him to stay.
They want a slightly less ‘big payday’.
They also want options going forward.
It will have to be worked out.
Tags are an option.
Kwesi and KOC have been working towards having their QB on a rookie deal since they were hired. Short of a SB MVP I find it hard to believe they would change that plan with JJ sitting there.
That is why a 1 year tag is an option.
A year to find out what JJ can do, if he is completely healthy.
Reassess in a year what we have and what we want to at that point.
I’d be ok with a tag because of what you said, but I expect JJ to play next year unless he just shows he can’t or isn’t ready.
Well, if he can’t or isn’t ready we have two years used up of a rookie contract…at that point I would trade him and start over.
That still leaves 3 years on the contract.
Not on the rookie contract. Fifth year option is average of the 3rd through 25th average salaries at their position over the past five seasons.
We should do a poll, how many people are okay with drafting a QB at #10 and not have him play at least half of his rookie contract? I personally get Ponder vibes if he does not start by the halfway mark of the (2025) season.
You won’t have to worry about it. He’ll be starting week 1.
Phew, now I feel much better.
The injury changed the calculation on his first few years.
It is not like he isn’t getting on the field because he is playing poorly.
Right because we will have the #10 overall pick in the draft while they have a deep QB class again real soon.
Guess it’s time to tank. Just burn everything they’ve built to the ground. JJ is the future, the truth and the way.
Have to give the kid a look. Talk of trading him pisses me off.
What a great Haiku!
The rules for those are quite strict so I am not sure it fully qualifies.
It started as bullet points to be filled out with more complete sentences but then I figured ‘F*ck it’!!
I hated doing poetry in English class. My friend and I plagiarized the hell out of Iron Maiden songs, knowing full well no one in the class including the teacher would know where we got it from.
We had an assignment in 6th grade to write a poem. I was walking to school the day it was due when I remembered it.
Thought of some BS on the walk, wrote it down just before class, teacher thought I stole it, accused me of plagiarizing.
Poems make zero sense to me
If you talk to him first, he may not be disgruntle.
KAM “we really want to keep you on the team, but we know we may not be able to afford what some other team is willing to give you. We’re going to put a Transition tag on you, hoping to keep you here, but if you get a better offer we get some picks in return.”
Sam “OK”
Stated better than my post.
Rec for you.
But, if he wins the superb owl, we back the Brinks truck up to his door.
After last week’s performance, his value rids quite a bit on how he plays this week.
Maybe.
But no team will send two first rounds picks and pay Sam that kind of money.
I highly doubt Sam would think of it as a good thing.
In the end, he has no choice though.
‘But no team will send two first rounds picks and pay Sam that kind of money’
So then we get to keep him at the lower Transition Tag price. Win!!
But he is still disgruntled.
What’s he gonna do? Play poorly to get back at the Vikings (and have other teams not want him anymore?)? He doesn’t seem like the type to sit out and not play (which also doesn’t do him any favors).
Sitting out won’t be his choice. He’d be a very high priced clipboard holder.
Did you miss the part where he said ‘ok’?
Did you miss the part where I doubt he would say, “ok” as a happy camper?
So he can say ‘ok’ as an ‘unhappy camper’.
Again he does not have any say other than what the Kumbaya Crew gives him.
I agree with this. Resurrect his career and he makes hundreds of millions but he’s mad? I don’t think a reasonable person would be that upset.
I think he would be disgruntled at only making $40 million now, rather than signing for $100 millon+ over the next three years.
If he gets hurt, he loses those hundreds of millions.
I’m just saying. He won’t be happy about it.
But there is nothing he can do about it.
Perhaps. But if he has any common sense at all he will at least be grateful he’s not out of the NFL or a clipboard holder for the next 10 years.
Yea, not like 40 million is pocket change.
Hell to the no.
I’m off to the dentist. Wish me luck.
For a second there I thought I was watching something rather risque
She did seem rather ‘into it’ when she wrapped her legs around him.
Good luck!
I don’t mind trips to the dentist. The part where they make me take off my pants is always a bit clumsy, but the rest is nice.
Are they just getting you ready for the ‘happy ending’??
I need to find a better dentist if I want to get those.
“Strip to the waist” IS rather vague………
I’ve never minded the actual dentist part, my teeth are quite healthy after excessive forays into sugar in my youth, but I always detest the x-rays. Stupid gougers. They never show anything. The worst part is they hurt, thanks to my massive mandibular tori. At least the modern plastic digital bite films are far less painful and traumatic than the old cardboard bite wings. I always bled after those old cardboard ones.
My concern (versus the short term discomfort) is the ridiculous amount of x-rays they want. Let’s do a set of x-rays twice a year on everybody from when they’re 4 years old, and everybody gets full body x-rays at the airport, etc. etc. And then we wonder why everybody has thyroid issues or cancer rates are increasing exponentially… hmmmm.
Nah, that doesn’t bother me, they are something like 0.001 mSv, that’s the same as walking outside for twenty minutes or so. and the whole body backscatter scanners at the airport are about half that.
As a radiation worker, my allowable annual exposure is 50 mSv/yr. I certainly am not about to refuse the whole body scan given the hassle that would entail over such a miniscule exposure.
Plus, if you let it get out that they are dangerous then you wouldn’t get to review as many MRIs.
Actually would be quite the opposite effect if you think of it…(MRI does not involve ionizing radiation).
I meant MRI’s and such of all the tumors.
Oh hahaha yeah so true!
Those ‘exposure risks’ are seriously overstated.
There is more radiation coming naturally from the stone used to build Grand Central Station than there ever was at the front gate during the ‘crisis’ at 3 Mile Island.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Three_Mile_Island_accident
Sure, that artificial penetrating radiation is “the same as walking outside for 20 minutes”. Yep. You know that is a lie, right? Specifically those airport scanners – look them up. They emit WAY more radiation than they supposedly say.
Judge Juan Merchan sentenced Trump to an unconditional discharge, which means the president-elect will have a conviction on his record, but he will not face jail time or any other punishment.
Merchan told the court that unconditional discharge is “the only lawful sentence, without encroaching upon the highest office in the land.”
He then told the president-elect, “I wish you godspeed as you assume your second term in office.”
Really disturbing judicial effort here. Complete and utter political witch hunt, meant to prevent Trump from being elected. Totally bogus Character assassination attempt to the max, by our Department of Injustice. Grotesque. To think our system is capable of letting this happen should put the fear of God in all of us.
Worst crime in the history of our country but no punishment, that adds up.
My thoughts exactly, Bow.
Thought that was Jan 6th??
It is hard to keep up with all the Woke Narratives sometimes.
Trump should just pardon himself day 1.
Play their stupid game.
It would be better to be exonerated by the Supreme Court.
Not really.
The media and the demogods will always put “convicted felon” with Trump forever. It won’t matter if it’s the Supreme’s or a pardon.
They can say it but it won’t be true if the ruling is overturned by the Supreme Court. They will have more to cry about if he pardons himself. If they want to keep a good narrative (for them) Biden should pardon him. That way Biden can say he is doing what is best for the country and Trump can’t appeal a verdict that he’s been pardoned for.
He does not have to accept the pardon.
Just has two federal death row inmates did not accept the FJB Pardons.
https://www.newsnationnow.com/crime/2-death-row-inmates-reject-bidens-commutation-of-life-sentence/
If DJT keeps winning lawsuits vs the media (aka ABC and Stephanopoulos) they will become hesitant to do so.
https://apnews.com/article/abc-trump-lawsuit-defamation-stephanopoulos-04aea8663310af39ae2a85f4c1a56d68
“In Ex parte Garland (1867), the U.S. Supreme Court confirmed the “unlimited” nature of federal pardons (except for impeachment related crimes) and broadened its scope to include offenses for which legal proceedings have not been initiated.”
He will still have only been pardoned for his transgressions, not exonerated of them.
Well Roberts had his chance yesterday and failed again.
He seems to think it is better to appeal the whole thing and have it kicked out.
Pardoning himself would seem to be a last resort if he can’t get it fixed by the time he is ready to leave office.
Yep.
My guess is he hopes the NY appellate system would overturn it.
I have my doubts.
NY? No.
Federal Appeals to include the Supreme Court? Yes.
Probably.
But I have read that even the NY supreme court has thrown out cases with more juice than this case.
No conservatives can get a fair hearing/ruling in NY.
Part of the reason they are all moving to Florida.
Does Trump still have a “gag order”, or can he now openly talk about the case?
Agreed, this whole thing has been a grotesque abuse of our justice system.
I believe the ‘gag order’ is no longer valid now that the case is out of Merchan’s court.
As you know whole thing was a complete sham and was based on law that no one had ever heard of.
But I was pissed today. the Supreme Court had a shot today to stop this. nonsense, but good ol Chief Justice Roberts went with the liberals. Barrett did to, but Roberts continues his record of failing in the biggest moments.
They would have just been stopping it from proceeding and not exonerating him so in the long run this still gives him a chance to officially clear his name.
This ruling was not on the merits of the case but on blocking the sentencing only.
That is why the other 3 conservative judges ‘invited’ an appeal on the merits of the case.
The case was so broken that it will be overturned but it had to be completed before that process could begin, that includes sentencing.
True. But if Roberts voted with the conservatives, today’s events wouldn’t have happened.
But at this point, I’m not sure it even matters. Now, I never trust Roberts.
I haven’t trusted Roberts since the Obamacare ruling.
SCOTUS was leaning towards a 5-4 decision to stop it, when Roberts changed and sided with the liberals that it was a tax.
I’ve never trusted that guy.
Too much into being liked by the DC crowd.
That’s correct. The votes were there and he screwed us.
Roberts is a politician.
He still acts like there are not ‘Obama/FJB Judges’ and ‘Trump Judges’, Moron!!
It took 5 votes to grant the motion and he wanted it to look like sometimes the Supreme Court can support Liberal causes.
Like you said ‘it doesn’t really matter’ in the long run so he voted for the optics instead.
Think he wants to be “loved” by history.
Harrison Philips was on some sports show Monday, said the loss was a huge wake-up call.
They had a 9-game win streak, so had Mondays off, didn’t do much film watching over that stretch – just reviewed a few of the worst plays.
But with the loss they had a long film session last Monday where they reviewed EVERYTHING. He says the loss was the best thing that could have happened to get them prepared for the playoffs.
Let’s hope it works…
We had a saying in the Army, ‘Sometimes you need an ass chewing to get your head right’.
Maybe that applies to Ass Whooping as well?
Yup, pretty much how it worked.
It was far better to be the chewer than the chewy.
Bobby Knight said “a kick in the ass is always better than a pat on the back”.
He always gave me the impression that while he could ‘kick ass’ he was a little bytch when it came to taking one.
So…if we win on Monday, and the 6 and 7 seeds lose…we could potentially be playing Detroit on Saturday the 18th?
We can always count on you to look for the positives.
Can we focus on going 1-0 this week?
Is that still a thing?
Downers gotta down.
I thought that was a positive…I suggested we might win!
The media has been hyping all the Detroit injuries since midseason…if we come into the Saturday game with casts and crutches and wheelchairs we might get a little sympathy.
There is no way they will make us do that…The NFL will schedule the winner of Monday night’s game to play on Sunday.
Yup, whoever wins on Monday night would get a Sunday, the 19th game one would think.
Commies will beat the Bucs and the Vikes will go to Philly unless GB can pull off the upset.
The Lions will host the lowest-seeded wild-card winner (No. 4 Rams, No. 5 Vikings, No. 6 Commanders and No. 7 Packers) in the divisional round on Jan. 18, or Jan. 19.
It’s really hard to beat a team 3 times in one year. This time it will be our turn to win.
I thought that had been debunked on here several times.
They had links and everything.
Maybe that only applied to us and FTP?
Maybe the debunkers are idiots?
but, but they had links.
Were they at “URL”?
I don’t think that our ‘debunkers’ were/are qualified to be Mayor of LA.
Yes, I have heard that a few times over the years on sports shows. Have not heard it in a while though because I no longer watch sports shows…
I think the Vikings/Rams winner is locked in on Sunday the 19th.
But it won’t be at Detroit.
Vikings will host the Redskins !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
As much as the NFL hates us, they wouldn’t make us play Monday and then Saturday. I’m sure we will be on Sunday.
Or they already know who is going to win….
Correct.
Book it.
Rams or Vikings are playing Sunday the 19th.
Don’t you mean “destroying” Detroit on Saturday the 18th?
Hopefully Sammy sees fewer ghosts in AZ than Tinseltown.
@Oh, Get a room already! Maybe a three way.@
Harrison Smith’s weekly coffee with the coach is part of a special season for Vikings veteran safety
Kidding, pretty cool story.
Good morning, SKOL!
FTP!
Good morning!
FTP! FTL! FT*! FTR!
SKOL!
I saw some scuttlebutt that the NFL is considering a change to the onside kick. A team would get one chance to convert a 4th and 20. If they do, they retain possession of the ball.
This is intriguing, certainly better than the current onside kick, which was ruined by the new kickoff rules.
The main problem with the 4th and 20 idea is that it favors elite offenses.
They keep screwing around with the game, making it worse and worse.
They certainly do. Illegal contact couldn’t possible be more vague – 5 yards is sometimes 2 and at other times 15.
And half the offensive tackles beat the snap count by a second, no call.
On and on.
Illegal contact, defensive holding and pass interference are my least favorite penalties. They are too catastrophic for the defense.
3rd and forever? Doesn’t matter. Defensive holding. Five yards and first down…
Yet, at the same time, I understand why these penalties need to be called. The problem is they can be absolute game breakers. Defense can play an amazing game, but oops…defender got there a bit too early on a 60-yard throw. First down at the goal line. Sorry. Game over.
Understand the need also, but it now seems so objective.
It’s gotten to the point, the fans of any team that loses can point to several questionable calls and claim the refs stole the game from them.
Almost like the game is completely rigged…..
I can see that. Money matters, and whatever helps the league the most is what they want to happen.
Chiefs win the third one this year, and swifties will all buy more Kelce shirts.
I’m afraid that’s by design. These vague penalties are excellent tools to influence games. We see it over and over again, most times to the Vikings’ disadvantage, unfortunately.
Unfortunately, every fan of every team now sees it that way.
Guess that’s because the NFL is overdoing it. They seem to have certain scripts, certain outcomes in mind, and the refs are tasked to make these happen. Sometimes it is so glaringly blatant that it can’t be overlooked anymore and just explained with “well refs make mistakes”.
I wholeheartedly agree with this. You will never convince me, after 2009 Katrina-gate, that the NFL isn’t extremely rigged (particularly because I see it week after week, though not always to that extent).
EXACTLY
I agree 100%
They have to do something with not only the onside kick but the kickoff. It is horrible.
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