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So you think someone doing a job part time is as good as full time? Do NFL players stop working in the off-season, since there are no games?

 

Making them full time would allow them to work on their game in the off season as well. You don't think that could help?

I go back and forth on the "full time" vs "part time" officials. You will lose A LOT of good officials if you tell them they cannot keep their other jobs...whether you can replace them with as good or better officials is debatable. I don't know what officials can do during a six month off season "to work on their game". You can only watch so much film.

I'm not a Duke fan but the kid is good. Zion > LeBron.

Huh?!!???! I like Zion too but let's pump the brakes just a little? Better than Lebron?

That roughing the passer call gets called every game? THAT ONE? Literally hitting the QB with your arm while he still has the ball. That gets called every game? No it doesn’t. It’s not a routine call. It’s a Brady call.

I love a lot of your posts Grant but your hatred of Brady is blinding you on this one. It was a horrible call but not just because it was Brady. Clay Matthews was called for bogus roughing the passer penalties about every week early in the season...not one of them had anything to do with Brady.

The Canadian Football League has been reviewing pass interference calls since 2014 and it has been very successful and has not added meaningfully to the time of the games. See the attached two articles for discussion of how the CFL does this.

 

What NFL can learn from CFL's officiating breakthroughs, technology, instant replay, review

 

Replays on pass interference calls? CFL shows NFL how it can be done

I actually thinks this makes sense because no penalties decide games more than PI penalties.

How about making an official stand before a room full of reporters and answer questions? Do they ever have to explain themselves to the public?

How would that help? Do you think the refs will do a better job if they have to talk to reporters after the game? Refs are human and they are doing the best they can. Officiating an NFL game is almost an impossible task with all the things refs are supposed to watch now. In real time, mistakes will be made because the game moves so fast. The issue is how to fix really bad errors because no matter what, they will happen. Making the refs talk to reporters so the reporters can get their pound of flesh will not make the refs do a better job.

Pats will jump out to an early lead, with Goff looking like a deer in the headlights. Halftime adjustments will see the Rams take a late lead on a field goal; but Brady, aided by a phantom roughing call, will engineer a game-tying drive with seconds left on the clock. Pats win the coin toss and the Rams won’t see the ball again. Pats 27 Rams 24.

 

How unbelievable would that be? You heard it here first!

It would be unbelievable...for the Rams to not see the ball again it would have to end 30-24:lol2:

Longest tenured coach against the youngest coach. I have to go with the Pats in this one. One thing for sure...it will be a close game. In every Super Bowl the Pats have played (with BB and TB), with a minute to go, the outcome was in doubt...all one score games.

I’ve seen no less than 30 posts on Facebook from people crying about the roughing the passer call but not one word about the no call on the pick play the Chiefs got away with. The hate for the Patriots is real.

Both were horrible calls...equally bad IMO.

I bet Rex and Whitworth really miss the Bengals right now:lol2:

I have always said Collinsworth is the best but Romo may be changing my mind. He was off the charts good today.

This may be the best day of pro football I have ever seen. The two losers today are just going to be absolutely sick all off season...

Tony Romo is sooooooooooooooooooo much better than Simms. Think about it; the guy literally leaves the field one day and immediately goes to the booth and is the best in the business (or maybe tied with CC).

I’m not sure who to compare him to. I haven’t seen anyone like him for real. He’s so damn good.

John Stockton? Muggsy Bogues? Lol...

His butt is even wider than Tractor Traylor's was when he was in college...

It was a very exciting game to watch. Too bad the referees horrendous call basically decided the game. It just leaves a bad taste in the mouth...I really had no dog in the fight but that was so blatant. I feel very bad for the Saints and I actually feel bad for the refs who blew it. I am sure they feel awful about it...

I used to be pretty good (5-6 index), and now I'm not (9.7 index). I used to play 50+ rounds a year, last year I played less than 20. I can't imagine that increases much in 2019. So playing less often makes me worse, and playing worse makes it WAY less fun. Way less fun makes me want to not play at all.

 

A vicious circle.

Simple solution...PLAY MORE!!! You will play better which will make it more fun...seems simple to me:)!

Tom Browning's perfect game. Not sure why, but I listened to this to get the adrenaline going before most of my law school final exams. Pretty sure it was a walkman and cassette tape back then. Can't remember how I got it onto a cassette.

I agree albeit for a different reason. I will always remember the date of TB's perfect game because I got married the next day - the perfect game was 9/16/88. There was a rain delay during the game so the game did not end until after midnight. We had our rehearsal dinner that night at El Greco's...veteran BGPers will remember it - it was in Southgate, KY but has been closed for years. I dropped off my wife to be (and still my wife more than 30 years later BTW:)) at her parents house after the rehearsal dinner and listened to the last inning at her house. Marty's voice on the last pitch (for the K to complete the perfect game) was just a little different than I can remember before or since. It was a great call...

Figured we should start a new thread to talk about Tate. He’s a bit of a controversial player no doubt because of his personality, but the guy can play. Curious to see where Tate ends up.

What is it about his personality that makes him controversial? Is he sort of a punk or what??

This morning Clay Travis said the four best coaches in the NFL are coaching this coming weekend. Hard to argue with Belichick, Reid, McVay and Payton as the four best right now...especially since Marvin and Hue have been let go and are no longer coaches:)...

My friend sent me a text on Saturday night asking if I feel like I've underachieved in life each time I see McVay on television. Simple answer: Yes. Dude has the looks, brains, and he leads a NFL football team. Anyone checked out his girlfriend? That'll make you even more jealous.

It's not often that the coach's girlfriend is better looking than any of his players'girlfriends/wives. But McVay's girlfriend is the exception to that rule...yikes!

As a Pats fan, I don't have a good feeling about this one...at KC could be a big problem. My heart say Pats but my brain says KC...by 7-10. I hope my heart is right.

I live in Delhi (western suburb of Cincy) and shoveled my driveway yesterday. When I went to bed last night (around midnight), there was no snow on it. I woke up this morning and had another 5-6 inches...just got done shoveling...MUCH more snow this morning than yesterday morning...UGH...

Compliments of TV Teddy.

While I am not a huge fan of Teddy, it was not his fault. The ref under the basket blew the call, which led to a long review which all three refs were involved with. Then they had a problem getting the clock set to 2.8 seconds. Then Duke called 2 timeouts and then Florida State called one...it was painful to wait that long for the last play but it was not Teddy's fault IMO...

I really don’t know what to tell you. Maybe we are playing golf on different planets. I’ll get back to you this summer when I’m back playing with my regular group and maybe their hearts will change. If putting with the flag in gets traction on tour then I believe you will start to see amateurs adopt it. After all so much of what we do as amateurs is inspired by what we watch on TV. But Dechambeau being the only guy putting with the flag in isn’t enough to get amateurs to start putting with the flag in. I think you would need 15-20% adoption of putting with the flag in and have a major winner putt with the flag in to get any movement from amateurs in that regard.

I watched a little of the tourney in Hawaii last night and saw Spieth putt from about 10 feet with the flag in...get ready for it...it will not take long for putting with the flag in to not be a novelty but a very regular occurrence on the tour, which in turn will lead to amateurs doing it.

Think of it this way...PGA tour players will try do ANYTHING to save a stroke. They will putt cross-handed, with a claw grip, with a long putter, looking at the hole, change their putters constantly, etc...anything that saves even one stroke a tournament means literally six figures in annual earnings. Once they are shown that it saves strokes to putt with the flag in, MANY players will start doing it on some putts.

How can you leave Cam Reddish that WIDE OPEN?

They were concentrating on denying Barrett the ball so much, they left Reddish, as you said, WIDE OPEN. Nice play drawn up by Coach K...

Great basketball game to watch and I hope Zion's eye is OK. Any injury related to an eye is serious IMO...

I find the BB vs FB thing very interesting for Murray. If he is a first round NFL pick, what is his guaranteed money - $10-15MM?? I don't know. Also, the NFL lifestyle is MUCH better than the minor league BB lifestyle. Do you want to be on an NFL team or a minor league team taking buses to games for the next 3-4 years before you are hopefully called up to the major leagues? IF he makes it in BB, over the long haul, he would be better playing BB but there are no guarantees that he ever makes the major leagues. It is not an easy decision.