MattM

Just heard on Sirius NFL radio that the League had a call with all officials last night regarding the proliferation of holding calls. How WWE is that? Just when the Pats* are down two tackles and Brady’s complaining on Twitter about penalties. You can’t make this stuff up.....

Brady and Belicheat?

Would have been nice, but I’ll take the W

I noticed that, too, last night when I went to set my DVR. I suspect it has to do with the Giants being an NFC team (and normally on Fox), so the guide folks assumed the CBS game would be the Pats* game. Like you, I’m hoping they’re wrong.....

Why no Beasley that drive?

Didn’t he get out of bounds?

Best I could tell, they didn’t

And as someone else replied to that comment, a white player, Riley Cooper, used the N word at a country music concert in a pretty derogatory fashion and then continued playing in the NFL for several years thereafter without any discipline. So there’s that.....

In the Blount case there were rumors of tampering (especially since he’d already played for them). Same back with Moss intentionally quitting on the Raiders to get moved there. Anyone recall this happening repeatedly with other good teams? Anyone play their way off a team to hook up with Peyton, for example?

It did seem kind of quick and suspect in that right after his meltdown people were talking about him getting nothing more than a minimum deal. Now the Pats* suddenly sign him to a large deal similar in 2019 pay to the one he got ripped up. As YOLO noted above, all he’s basically doing is taking a chance that his play this year won’t get him a similar long term deal to replace his Raider deal. Cheaters always seem to be cheating.

We’ll see. If he all of a sudden acts normal, for example. At a certain point, these guys may not care as much about the $ as a chance to get a ring....

I called this on a friend’s FB Page this morning—at this point it’s just so obvious...

This is at least the 3rd similarly fishy move with these guys—most recently being Blount a few years back and of course Randy Moss a ways back. I’m sure I’m missing some....

Unfortunately, like Generalissimo Francisco Franco before him, still dead. Used to love JC on the old SCTV.....

This^^^^ I thought that penalties were supposed to get increasingly severe for each transgression? Then again, look no further than who he plays for.....

I tried to post this last night, but not sure it went through. Luck apparently really does love architecture—it was well-known that he would stop and visit local architectural marvels on team road trips. Could see him going in that direction even if he doesn’t financially need to.

Yup—have had that exact same experience twice over the years. You have an early morning slot appointment and the guy never shows. I was as livid as you were. Called and complained multiple times that day and kept getting a song and dance about the tech being “on the way,” which turned out to be BS., then got the story/ excuse that the techs weren’t their employees (as they hire independent third party vendors). Total garbage, since they hire the vendors. One of those same vendors apparently took one of my receivers and used it himself or sold it, with me getting the bill for years before they figured it out and shut it off—the jerk then reactivated it each time they shut it off. It stopped when I told DTV that my next call was going to be not to them, but to a good friend who’s a senior person at the NYAG’s office. Horrible, horrible customer service—straight out of Lily Tomlin’s old SNL Ma Bell monopoly customer service ads—“we don’t listen to you because we’re the phone company, and we don’t have to”. May actually give them a go this year after reading this thread.....

Who?

This bodes very well for us being able to lever the heck out of the ‘Skins if they want to leapfrog the Broncos (who pick right after us) to get him. Maybe a 2nd this year and a 3rd in 2020 in addition to pick 15? https://profootballtalk.nbcsports.com/2019/04/07/dwayne-haskins-visiting-washington-and-denver/

FYI, I have knowledge of the CFIUS process (including the role of State vs the other agencies), so know Schweizer’s full of ***** on this. And yeah, Snopes (and many others) have pretty much fully debunked this one.

Uranium One? That’s been pretty thoroughly debunked. https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/hillary-clinton-uranium-russia-deal/

Tacos Pigs in a blanket Mexican Rice and beans Salsa Sushi (“one of these thing is not like the other”.....) A few bottles of red and white Beer in many splendered varieties (Molson, Blue Moon, Bass, Guinness, Ballast Point, Founders, Amstel, Becks, Captain Lawrence, Weheinstefaner, etc) for 40-50 folks, including kidlings (the SB is kind of our neighborhood thing). The beer is my only contribution, the rest is my wife’s. i will need to singlehandedly drink half of those beers if this game goes the way I suspect it might....

His nickname in my house growing up was “Stone Fingers”—never heard “Reuben Gant” on its own without “Stone Fingers” preceding it.....

But again, why do those calls almost always go their way?

Do you ever wonder why it never, ever seems to even out, however? As in they seem to win many games through garbage calls, but never seem to lose by them? i can recall a total of one game they got jobbed—against the Panthers on Monday night 5 or 6 years ago—but can easily think of more than 10 they won that way....