dave mcbride

Agreed, it's probably the worst penalty in the league. It rewards poorly thrown balls. Hate that call.

It's more of a low hangtime issue with him.

He got slammed HARD to the ground (right on his back) in both the Jets and Chiefs games. Can't feel too good, I imagine, especially for a guy who does everything possible to avoid the big hits (he instinctively and smartly goes to the ground quickly rather than fight for the extra half yard and risk injury/fumble).

Enh ... I don't know about that. Diggs' game has always been a vast route tree plus short area quickness that gets him into a position where no DB has the ability to get to him slightly early. That's happening now, and we're complaining about it. He needs to more clearly separate. That's his game, not contested catches with sticky, handsy DBs. Complaining about the refs strikes me as whistling past the graveyard here. At the moment, he's not creating the separation necessary to obviate that sort of tactic by DBs. To be fair, in the last three games he's been covered by Sauce, Bradberry, and Sneed, who are all very good players. That should be factored in too.

Nah, that was good coverage. Sneed is very good. But Diggs has struggled to separate of late.

He looked phenomenal on the Chiefs’ final two possessions. As Bill Walsh said, what often separates winning from losing is the ability to get late 4th quarter pressure from the d-line. Miller, Oliver, and Floyd all made good pressure plays late.

They probably won't: at Eagles, at Saints, Rams at home, Eagles at home. Eagles won't be resting in the final week. Should have beaten the Bills too if not for the non-PI call!

It's still mind boggling that they lost that Jets game. That was almost impossible to lose, and they didn't lose through the fault of the coaching at all. Just players making mistakes: Barkley surrendering (in the name of ball protection) instead of fighting for the first down on the final possession, the kicker missing a very makeable FG, and Thibodeaux inexplicably jumping Offside.

https://nypost.com/2023/03/31/john-maras-brian-daboll-warning-dont-go-from-bono-to-bozo/ March 31, 2023 'Brian Daboll is the football coaching equivalent of a rock star these days. It could all change in a New York minute, though. That was the warning from his boss, Giants owner John Mara. “We kid him. I mean, right now he’s Bono walking around New York City,” Mara said on Sirius XM NFL Radio this week. “But I’ve told him, I’ve said, ‘In this business, it doesn’t take long to go from Bono to Bozo. So don’t get your head too big right now.’ But he has been great.”'

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/12/12/world/europe/turkey-soccer-referee-attack.html Despite it all, NFL refs have it pretty good, relatively speaking. ”Turkey is not alone in dealing with abuse and violence toward officials. Neighboring Greece’s top league postponed all of its matches last weekend after the country’s referees refused to work in a protest against what they called dangerous working conditions. In Cyprus, bomb attacks targeting referees have been a problem for years. In June, a pipe bomb exploded outside the building housing the Cyprus Referees Association in the capital, Nicosia, only weeks after a firebomb was thrown at the home of a match official. Referees in Turkey have long been under intense pressure from fans and team officials who traffic in a variety of conspiracy theories about decisions they contend might have favored a powerful club, or gone against the one they support.”

Florio and Simms discussed this, and they said that the reason the number of such calls has increased is because of the tush push. Allowing guys to line up past the LOS on near-unstoppable play makes it an unstoppable play. Makes sense if you think about it.

yup. see the point above from someone who actually watched the pre-game warmups. No way was Bass making a 62 yarder. No effing way.

"BTW, Bass made all of his warmup kicks until getting to about 45+ yards out—he for sure missed the 55 yarder he attempted, by kicking at least 5-10 yards short of the goal posts—I wonder if McD had this in mind when he decided a Hail Mary was preferable to trotting Bass out right before the half?" Chris Hogan in his final season in Buffalo. He tore wrist ligaments and played through it. Never reported.

Well, the game is at home, and the Bills are a good home team: 24-6 since 2020. The only game they lost this year was one they should have won (Denver). As for the SB winner, assuming SF stays healthy, I expect them to steamroll all opponents in the postseason, including Baltimore.

Just looking at the offensive and defensive numbers across the board, the Cowboys are effing good. This is a tougher game than KC in certain respects. At least it's at home: https://www.pro-football-reference.com/teams/dal/2023.htm.

I honestly think he's fed up with his receivers and the offensive production overall and just snapped. It's been building up over the season and he finally lost it. He can't snap at the player, so he has to take it out on someone. Not saying it's right, btw; just offering an explanation as to possibly why. Yeah, I think there was a lot of displaced projection going on with Mahomes.

Toney never even looked at a ref so it was impossible to tell him anyway.

Well, that too!

My theory as to why Mahomes went completely ballistic over this open-shut-case of an obvious penalty: it nullified an "all-time signature Mahomes-Kelce play” that the Chiefs' two biggest stars could monetize down the road via commercials etc., especially given the presence of Taylor Swift, who is inarguably the biggest star in the world. For people who are buying Mahomes’s line about "game integrity," there's a bridge in Brooklyn I would like to sell them. Also, if you read what Mahomes actually says in that tweet, he's basically advocating for NBA-style star-favoring officiating. Lord knows the NFL has officiating problems, but the NBA is FAR worse.

See the second tweet here. I felt this deserved its own thread given the fact that this lie is spreading. The other tweet here is interesting too - toney never looks to the sideline for guidance.

He forced two incompletions late with near sacks, one on a third down in the red zone, forcing a fg. The one on second down on the final possession would have been a sack vs a normal qb. Was he not wearing a brace yesterday? I couldn’t see one.

Dee Ford wants to have a word with you.

He CLEARLY got 3 feet down and the hold was a freaking bearhug. Just obvious. I agreed with the no-call on kincaid.

No, it was clearly 3 steps. Not even remotely questionable when you look at the replay

I know you’re kidding, but many others won’t!