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This is my favorite ad of this political season.

So sorry to hear that. I can't imagine how hard that must be. I hope you and your family can heal and move forward.

To me the taunting penalties are the worst and should only be called in the most blatant and egregious of cases. It doesn't protect players and it doesn't enforce the rules of the game, but it can impact the outcome of the game. With how difficult it is to get the real calls right, I think the NFL should think real damn hard about opening this one up. I didn't B word about it that much because it ultimately led to a missed FG, but if that taunting penalty on Hughes in NE had cost us the game I might consider an NFL boycott. That was inexcusable.

I may have shared this story before, but it's a good one so I'll share it again. I was at a bar with a friend, it must have been 15 years ago, watching the Redskins play the Cardinals when we coincidentally ran into some guys who were kind of friends of ours (our social circles intermingled). Everyone there except me and one other guy were Redskins fans, and I was pulling for the skins too. The one guy who wasn't was a Cowboys fan. When the Redskins won, every one of us jumped up cheering. This Cowboy fan was pissed and wanted to take it out on someone, so rather than say anything to any of us he picked out some kid who was maybe 18 wearing a Redskins jacket and started talking ****. At around 6', the kid was a fair amount taller than his aggressor, who stood about 5'6", but the short guy was stocky and built, and the kid looked soft like he'd never been in a fight before. He was completely non-confrontational and tried to brush it off like the guy was joking, but for whatever reason the dude wouldn't let it go. He kept talking **** trying to goad this kid into a fight but the kid wouldn't take the bait. He then followed the kid out into the parking lot to press the issue. When I got out there there was a circle of people with the two of them in the middle, one guy talking ****, the other flustered and scared, pleading repeatedly that he didn't have any problem with the guy and didn't understand why he wanted to fight. After about five minutes of this the Cowboys fan realized the kid was never going to give him a reason to fight and decided "!@#$ it" and reared back and drilled the kid straight in the face. Adrenaline, shock and fear set in as the kid reached out to put his hands on the guy's shoulders to hold him back and protect himself. The shorter guy threw several hay makers to the face and body, most grazing or missing, few hitting solidly. Then he lunged in, grabbed the kid, and started driving him back about 20 feet into the grill of a truck. At this point the shorter guy ran out of wind and said "it's over, dude." In a fraction of a second, the look in this kids eyes went from fear and terror, to relief, to realization, to RAGE. He realized his attacker was gassed and he was still fresh and he started throwing straight right punches. The bully started backpedaling to get out of his range, but the kid pressed forward punching him again and again driving forward for about 15 feet until the would be bully fully retreated at which point, with great confidence and fury yelled, "YEAH! YOU WANT SOME MORE B word!?" The would be bully didn't want more. Of the fights I've witnessed this was my favorite. The night the bully got his ass kicked by his victim. I think that's true most of the time. Even at the bar, if we're winning and I'm around someone wearing the rival jersey I'll usually say something like "don't get too worried yet, we have a knack for pulling defeat from the jaws of victory," and then it's friendly. It's a rare occasion where someone still picks a fight.

If I were going to an opposing team's stadium I'd probably do as you have for practical reasons, but I think it's bull **** to claim wearing your jersey and cheering for your team is "classless". Anyone who attacks someone for that is a pathetic POS.

Lame I love that story

Redskins hooked you up. Show some respect.

Nailed it

Probably a lot of blue collar types that talk about things like "the workin man".

He grew his hair out and told his friends he'd cut it when he got his first start, didn't have time earlier, so he posted a selfish an hour and a half before the game. For some reason JJ Twatt and a few old men had a problem with it.

If I were an MMA fighter I think it would be fun to go with some of my fellow fighters to away games in a Bills jersey, not talk any ****, but act exactly like I would in a Bills backer bar.

The Redskins might surprise you. Even when they suck they usually play the Cowboys hard.

I'm curious if the guy was actually talking **** or just being audibly excited about the game. There are people who will attack you just for being happy that your team is winning.

Was this ever confirmed or just speculated?

I reject your premise so I won't even get IN to the merits of your conclusion. Edit: I probably should have clarified this is a response to the OP.

I'm with you. If they keep racking up embarrassing wins we should start wearing paper bags on our heads.

Can't slip one past you.

Wanndstedt had some support because of the defenses he'd coached in the past, but any support he had dried up after that debacle against the 9ers. And not to poke fun, but weren't you a huge EJ supporter?

The one his throwing arm is attached to.

That's why we went with EJ. It's understood, he does it for the hood.

I'm not stumping for Hackett. Just adding perspective.

We turned the ball over 3 times to NE in the first half & they were only down 6 at the half. They should fire their OC.

I could be wrong, but I don't think that was what he was saying at all. I took it to mean: 1. Showing the willingness to run consistently opens up other opportunities; and 2. You let the game situation dictate your strategy, to some extent.

This is extremely lazy analysis. If you look at the game situation the # of passes makes sense. They started with 3 consecutive passes to set up the run. After that it was a very balanced attack. There was a lot of passing at the end of the half, trying to get in scoring position with time running out. There was also quite a bit of passing down 2 scores in the 4th quarter. But only an idiot goes run heavy on the two minute drill to make the box score run:pass ratio look to be in accordance with the initial game plan.

I didn't see it, but he had a pretty nice stat line for his first start. The emergence of Orton takes the sting out of it, but I still question the decision of a team w/ our QB situation not to take a late round flier on him.