They could trade for Ronnie Brown.
It only took Lebeau 6 or 7 games to learn that the only way the Steelers can beat Brady is to roll up the CBs on the WRs and disrupt the timing to the WRs.
Love the Troy play. The announcers couldn’t get it right though. A fumble in the last two minutes cannot be advanced. Troy didn’t advance the ball since he never had possession. It was a real heads-up play by the All-Pro.
What else is he supposed to say? “Yeah, Tarvaris basically sucks, but we’re going to play him the rest of the year, because we don’t have a choice. No chance he’ll be starting next year. … Also, we expect him to really give us 110% every week.”
He didn’t start the dude this week, which makes it pretty clear what he thinks of him, I’d think.
Sarkus
3844
There’s a big difference between slagging Jackson and saying “you saw our future at QB out there” when talking about him after the game. Pete is smart enough to find the line in the middle if that is what he thinks.
And we don’t know what happened with the start. Jackson was announced as the starter, but then Whitehurst came out. Maybe Carroll changed his mind, maybe Jackson seemed to suffer a relapse, who knows. But its pretty clear Jackson is the starter when healthy.
sluggo
3845
You’re not allowed to bat that ball forward, whether you had possession or not.
Sluggo is correct and so were the announcers (eventually). The zebras on the field in real-time did not flag Troy and the reviewing official cannot reach that determination on their own. The only reason it was reviewed was it was a scoring play and they had to decide safety or touchdown.
That said, it was a great play by Troy. In real time I certainly didn’t assume he’d batted it; could have easily just been the force from trying to recover it but blasting it toward the endzone accidentally. But for the Steelers there was no downside in batting that ball; worst case it is still effectively a sack of Brady cept I guess it would have stopped the clock. Worth a try, obviously and credit Troy by all means. It’s like the anti holy-roller play.
Yeah, Sluggo is right. It was an illegal bat. The announcers had it wrong in they kept talking about the Holy Roller rule. All in all, damn glad the Steelers finally beat Tom frickin’ Brady.
Romo sucks more than usual this week.
Dallas down 24-0 against Philly at the half. Fat Lebowski needs to keep his mouth shut.
Lorini
3850
I see Stevie Wonder is reffing again. How the hell was that a backward pass? That call was so bad the Eagles shouldn’t be charged even a challenge.
sluggo
3851
So, apparently the referees were so bored by the Phi/Dal game that they got totally drunk at halftime and have ruled a pass that went 3 yards forward to be a backwards pass.
I don’t want replays on every play. I don’t want the game to slow to a crawl while every little thing gets analyzed. But people – especially sports journalists – who think that human error when it comes to refereeing is “part of the game” and are against replay in any form are dinosaurs who’ll be extinct in the next 10 years as technology gets better. All fans care about is getting the call right, and awful stuff like that last call are why replays are here to stay.
That forward pass that was initially ruled a backward pass defies description. How could the refs even think that was close to a lateral? That is one of the crazier calls I’ve seen in my many years of watching NFL football. There are a lot of bad calls, but most are bang-bang plays.
Sluggo, I agree for the most part, but I don’t really want a booth review of balls and strikes in baseball. The game is already too slow.
I think baseball realizes that, unlike the NFL, they are not merely a TV show with a stadium that fills because there are only 8 games a year in it. Baseball teams rely heavily on their 81 home games to fund operations. Replays work out pretty well for the people watching at home, who get to see the replays while hearing the commentary and if nothing else get to watch some attention grabbing commercials. Baseball makes a lot of its money in its stadiums. As somebody who regularly attends baseball, basketball, and football games, I find baseball is actually the most fun to watch at the game. I don’t think people realize just how much deadtime there is in football in between plays. People in the stands hate replays (in principle) because it means a lot of lollygagging waiting for something to watch. I remember going to a football game during a very hot day (it was a Big Ten school against a cupcake, so the outcome was not in doubt), and the crowd booed visibly every time a replay challenge occurred, even if it would have been in the home team’s favor.
I’m not saying that getting the right call isn’t important, but fans eventually ultimately want to watch a game. Replays slow that process down.
sluggo
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I don’t want to slow the game down, either. But I think within 10 years, we’ll be at a point where technology can basically replace 95% of what refs/umpires do in real time. We’re practically at a point now where you can have an NFL ref in a booth who can call down within 10 seconds and say “that guy stepped out of bounds” or “the ball should be on the 10 1/2 yard line” or “no, you idiots, that wasn’t a lateral” and do it in a completely seamless manner. We can see a lot of calls are incorrect in seconds, it won’t be long before fans demand that they be corrected in seconds as well.
Why the hell does Rob Ryan get so much TV coverage every time I see the Cowboys play? I feel like he gets more airtime than Jason Garrett ever does. And I don’t even know who the Cowboys’ offensive coordinator is.
Ok, but you’re saying get rid of the on field review. I agree with that. There’s not a lot of reason why an on field ref has to walk over to a camera. It’s easy enough to say it’s a booth review, cut to a 30 second commercial, and then come back with the booth decision.
And I think in baseball the bang-bang plays on bases, fair and foul balls, etc., can be booth reviewed quickly. Balls and strikes, though, I think should not be reviewed, or at best be subject to a limited number of challenges by managers.
And I think umpires would be happy to have booth review of some of those plays. Umps want to get it right but in the TV age with replays from multiple angles, the camera shows them up and when it does they’d probably like the call corrected.
JonRowe
3858
The glorious mane of lion-like silver locks is a magnet for the media.
godhugh
3859
Garrett is the offensive coordinator and head coach.
Now the luv-4-Tebow peeps are claiming Fox is “sabotaging” Tebow’s career because they didn’t stay in a spread formation the entire game. Since when is a traditional offense sabotage? Hasn’t it been proven that a full-time spread offense is a great way to get your QB killed (the reason the run-and-shoot failed)? But remember folks, Tebow can do no wrong…when he sucks, it’s someone else’s fault!
