Shadarr
4901
No, they’re really not. The 49ers are following the exact same formula, difference being that when the Niners played the Lions, they won instead of getting blown out. The biggest factor in the Broncos winning streak is playing weak teams. They’ve got a pretty piss-poor record against winning teams this year, with Tebow or without. Their defense has played well in some games, but not well enough to keep them in games against good teams.
Fuck you, Wrangler ad, for making me thing of Brett Favre’s crotch.
Drew Brees is putting on a clinic tonight.
This game is over, and dullsville.
Another Pennington factor was his contribution to a record setting low number of turnovers for the season.
Edit: Sluggo beat me to adding the turnover factor.
I am slightly drunk, but per BillD, I should take this time to say: fuck y’all haters, GEAUX SAINTS. :-)
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Not when you need crazy fantasy numbers from both Jimmy Graham and Victor Cruz to beat your brother… and you are getting them! Skin of my teeth but the last completion to Cruz put me over. Oh yeah. Sweet, sweet bragging rights.
I can’t believe Graham got up after that spine-crunching hit.
I’m also not sure how safeties are supposed to play the position anymore. By definition a receiver is defenseless when he’s in the act of catching the ball. You’re not supposed to hit him then?
Sammich
4910
Pretty much. They can still make a tackle on a defenseless receiver and/or try to knock the ball away, but wipeout hits on such a player are no longer part of the game under the current rules.
NFL rules provide special protection to defenseless players, by prohibiting (a) hits delivered to their head or neck area by an opponent with his helmet (including facemask), forearm, or shoulder, and (b) hits delivered by an opponent with his helmet (including the top/crown and forehead/“hairline” parts) against any part of the defenseless player’s body (i.e., “butting, spearing, or ramming” a defenseless player.)
Defenseless players are defined as (a) a player in the act of or just after throwing a pass; (b) a receiver catching or attempting to catch a pass; © a runner already in the grasp of a tackler and whose forward progress has been stopped; (d) a kickoff or punt returner attempting to field a kick in the air; and (e) a player on the ground at the end of a play.
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So where did the defender violate that rule? He didn’t hit the head of the receiver, and he did not lead with his own helmet. He lowered his shoulder and drove it into the player. Yes, his helmet then hit as well–I have news for the NFL, the shoulder and the head are are pretty damned close to each other, and if one hits, the other is probably going to as well.
That call was a joke, ridiculous. It is flag football time in the NFL.
I have a hard time moving from “I can’t believe that dude was able to stand up after that hit” to “of course that hit should be legal” so quickly.
So what’s the defense supposed to do, let the WR catch the ball unmolested?
That’s a one-way ticket out of the NFL. In fact, the guys on the NFL Sirius channel were talking about this very hit this morning saying that it was a horrible call.
Chucky on ESPN’s broadcast was as well.
In other news, Jack Del Rio’s out in Jacksonville.
And yet Norv Turner still walks the earth as a free man.
Norv hasn’t gone 14-2 yet. Spanos only fires coaches who win almost all of their games.
Until Jaworski chid him by reminding him that the smashmouth, hard-nosed players Gruden was idolizing there can barely walk these days, and Gruden subsided.
John Lynch appears to be a fully functioning person at least in the broadcast booth, but I (and the NFL currently) do take your point.
I think the owner wanted to clean up the baggage before selling the team. Which could be officially announced as soon as today from what I’ve read.
Suh is expected to be suspended for two games, reports Jay Glazer.
