John in Jax

Next time TB tries the kneel-down move, I hope whoever they're playing hammers the holy hell out of their front five. But if the opposing team knows that TB is going to have to do 2 or 3 kneel-downs, I sure hope they play docile at first, then pound away on the last one. It would be so sweet. Also, lose vs. loose, their vs. there vs. they're, then vs. than, affect vs. effect, to vs. too, and your vs. you're. Do they teach English in government schools anymore? lol

Don't know if anyone saw Michael Strahan on ESPN tonight, but his take was like my thinking. He didn't think that the replacements refs were doing such a bad job, and said that most of the complaints about these refs were COMING FROM THE LOSERS. Another VERY interesting thing was a stat they put up, comparing through the first 2 games this year vs. the first 2 games last year......On Challenges there were WAY MORE calls REVERSED LAST YEAR.....you know, with the almighty "regular" refs......vs. this year. So IOW, the "regular" refs had more "wrong" calls at game pace.

Wow. After seeing how expensive it is to be there in person, I am amazed that so many teams are able to sellout their games. Personally, everything I spend money on gets analyzed on a cost-to-value basis. And a regular season NFL game fails my "green light" test by hundreds of dollars. lol I like watching the games on TV though...and I ALWAYS mute the commercials and don't pay attention to them either. lol again

Pretty good rant from espn's website. Dear NFL Players, Coaches and Fans, Shut up. Stop your whining, you sad losers. We are replacement refs, but you are full-time pathetic. Many of us work during the week as schoolteachers in classrooms full of teenagers. Yet after two weekends with you people, we see the weekdays as our opportunity to spend time with mature and rational people. So we have gotten some calls wrong? Embarrassed ourselves here and there? Oh, wow! What a travesty! This has never happened before in an NFL game with the fancy regular officials, right? Show us the one game -- and there are 31 to choose from so far -- where we affected the outcome. While you rack your brain to come up with nothing, let us point to this game when Ed Hochuli single-handedly won a game for Jay Cutler and the Broncos against the Chargers. Yes, your beloved and muscled patron saint of referees enabled Jay Cutler to win a big game. That’s almost impossible, but he did it. Yet we have guys like Joe Flacco saying this garbage after games (saying it because they lost and they’re sad): “The [Eagles] were all over our guys and not in a very legal way sometimes." And that we are “affecting the integrity of the game.” Flacco also laughed at how one of us made a call: "He didn't even throw a flag. He threw a blue beanie and then put his hands in the air -- like offensive pass interference -- I mean, come on." Ha-ha-ha. It’s funny because Flacco is criticizing how someone else throws. OK, fine. It was a mistake to throw the blue beanie and not the flag that one time. Just like how you made a mistake completely missing your receivers 20 times. 20 > 1. At least the official was intending for his thrown object to land on the ground. Are we as dumb as Redskins receiver Josh Morgan was taking his team out of field goal range with a stupid personal foul penalty? Not even close. Did you see Arizona Cardinals running back Ryan Williams fumble the ball late in their game against the Patriots when his only job was to not fumble? And then did you see Stephen Gostkowski blow a game-winning field goal right after that? We haven’t done one thing half as incompetent in two weeks as two players did a few minutes apart in one game. Jim Harbaugh has made a hobby out of screaming at us, but he didn’t even know what down it was during one series against the Lions. Jim, we’re sure you’re insanely screaming some great points at us, but it’s pointless to debate with someone who doesn’t know basic facts. Do we sometimes misspeak when making a call or mess up with the public address system? Yep. But this is our second week on the job. Andy Reid has been coaching for 14 years and still doesn’t understand how timeouts or challenges work. Advantage: replacement refs. We usually are officiating games played by middle school and high school kids. Here’s a news flash for you: The transition from them to you hasn’t been that great. You’re bigger and stronger and faster, sure. But we’re managing. Again: We haven’t affected the outcome of a single game. That’s pretty good for a weekend job we got just to make some money to put in an above-ground pool in the backyard. And we’re on TV now, which has made us pretty much the most famous people in our towns. So shut up. Worry about what you’re doing and let us keep doing our part-time temporary job. You guys are full-time professionals and you screw up way more than we do. If you have lost a game, it’s on you. Not us. Think about it: If you guys are so perfect and infallible, why do officials even exist? See you again next week. We can’t wait to see how you all mess up this time. Sincerely, The Replacements

Agree with this 100%. As I said earlier, I thought a few guys were going to get tossed after that fumble/scrum/fight fiasco.

I have thought this about the "regular" refs, EVERY year, when I would see the inconsistency of Pass Interference & Holding calls. I mean in past years, we've seen games with only 1 or 2 holding fouls called for THE WHOLE GAME! C'mon Man!

Yeah, maybe Manning can blame the refs for his 3 pics....and Denver's D can blame them for their sieve-like play.

If I hear them call Gonzalez a hall of famer one more time, tv's going to mute.

John Fox is gonna have a heart attack! lol Also, Gruden just said that the game has been "hard to watch." From my end, it's hard to listen to, what with Tirico & Master of the Obvious JG. Getting rid of Jaws was the WORST thing to do.

I did think that someone..or maybe a couple guys...were going to get ejected for that chicanery.

Yep, but terrible job by the technical director of showing the fight LIVE....instead we got crowd shots. WTF?

Watching....Yes, Manning looks like crap so far. Falcons are gonna regret that they didn't get more points (more than 10) off the 3 picks.

Really don't see much difference between the replacement refs & the regular refs. Holding, Pass Interference, Out of Bounds Hits, "Late" hits, & Roughing the QB have ALWAYS been very subjective......and they continue to be so with these replacement guys. I have always contended that Holding could be called on EVERY play, if the refs wanted to call it. Even with the regular refs, Pass Interference has ALWAYS been called VERY inconsistently from game to game, week to week.

Only time will tell, but shouldn't your !!!! be ???? ?

Just saw TWO different Broncos CLEARLY holding, out in the open field for all to see, on that TD pass. Wow. How are those missed!?

Agree 100%. And I've been saying it for about a year now.

What about his brown rug, that used to be black!? Don't you go from black to gray? Lol

Like I said last year when the idiots in the front office gave Fitz a new contract for no good reason, he is not very good, not very good at all. How embarrassing...

Wow, just totally amazed at all the petty and disrespectful posts in here, but I guess I shouldn't be since they're coming from jaded Bills' fans. Yeah, she was an "addict", but who among us is perfect, with no vices? And unless you've been there (rich & famous), please save me from your armchair psychoanalysis. I guarantee that you have NO IDEA what went on in her life that drove her to drugs. It's real easy to sit here and say, "she got what she deserved", but damn, that's cold and heartless.....are you really cold & heartless? She was a Mother, and had a Mother too. "Let he who has no sins cast the first stone." The facts are that she was a one of a kind, a true superstar with an unbelievable voice. And that's not just my opinion, it's the take of Tony Bennett, and Lionel Ritchie, and Clive Davis, and Tommy Mattola, and countless other music industry giants. She was a one in 10 billion (or whatever the population of the earth is) person. Her songs touched the hearts of MILLIONS of people around the world. She sold almost 200 MILLION albums. In her prime, she was the best on earth. Since her prime, no one has come close to topping her. In your lifetime, most likely, she will be the best singer you've ever heard. And I do agree that soldiers, sailors, teachers, policemen, & firemen, are not given as much pay & recognition as they deserve. Unfortunately, that's the society that we live in....my view is that athletes, entertainers, and "movie stars" are grossly overpaid, and if I personally could change that, I'd do it in a minute.

What terrible news. Yes, her life was virtually destroyed by drugs, thanks in big part to her hooking up with Bobby Brown, but I thought she got past that, and was on the way back up. Certainly she was one of the best voices EVER in the music industry. Those who know far more than I are saying so tonight too. In songs like "I will Always Love You" and "Saving All my Love for You", her voice/talent was just INCREDIBLE. And yeah, that StarSB performance in Tampa was awesome.

Sssoooo, you're gonna run out and buy a Jeep, Dodge, or Chrysler!? lol

That Chevy Camaro one (with the HS grad) was awesome. That one was actually a nationwide "amateur" contest winner. Glad some of the posters in here don't work anywhere near an ad agency. LOL

Like the Pepsi commercial...lotta work/creativity there, say, compared to that totally LAME blue bottle beer commercial! But I'm a staunch Coke Zero drinker, so it matters not lol

On the road a lot...rent a lot of cars...Hyundais are surprisingly pretty good

Hyundai "Rocky" commercial - very good!