OFFICIAL NFL week 15 thread

[MotF Bane]

LOL.

 

[Baked]

Woot! TD again!

 

[The Boston Dangler]

wth is that unsportsmanlike penalty about? why is officiating and rules making where the nfl struggles?

 

[MotF Bane]

wth is that unsportsmanlike penalty about? why is officiating and rules making where the nfl struggles?

That looked pretty weak, seemed to be a hand on the shoulder to give him a little more boost.

 

[SSSnail]

That looked pretty weak, seemed to be a hand on the shoulder to give him a little more boost.

Yeah, I thought that was a pretty weak call too. But, that's to make up for that miscall on the TD.

 

[MotF Bane]

Yeah, I thought that was a pretty weak call too. But, that's to make up for that miscall on the TD.

The Davis TD? It looked to me like his left foot went onto the white.

 

[a123456]

wth is that unsportsmanlike penalty about? why is officiating and rules making where the nfl struggles?

Launching means you can't use another player to jump higher than usual to block a FG. The official was behind the guy and saw Timmons put 2 hands on the 49er but from the front it didn't look like Timmons got any extra air out of it so the call was a little ticky tack. But yeah, technically you're supposed to just jump and not use your hands except to stick them straight up.

Bad deal but I don't see the Steelers scoring 2 TDs with Ben hurt.

Edit: They just explained the call. It was calling for a running start. Rules says you have to be within 1 yard of the line or else it's a "running start" and I guess Timmons was more than 1 yard away.

 

[zinfamous]

Yeah, this D is astounding, but those three teams will shred them.

Although the Pats' D could make Alex Smith look pretty good.

agreed. Though I think the Pats would give them the best game.

not sure how well Brady would do when he's actually forced to move.

Alex Smith is pretty bad, but he's looked serviceable this year.

amazing.

 

[SSSnail]

Wait, I thought the Niners were the ones with the leaky O-line and Steelers were the ones with awesome blitz packages...

They did a zoom, and it didn't touch the white.

 

[crashtestdummy]

Big Ben should not be playing. I get that he wants to be a hyper-masculine hero for his team, but he's playing like crap.

 

[zinfamous]

Trolololoolololololololol

c'mon, you can tell Ben the rapist for 100 is only at about 40% this game.

Still, at 100%, he isn't Brees or Brady or Rodgers. He's playing in another league from those guys, this year.

 

[MotF Bane]

Starks: 6'8", 345.
Smith: 6'4", 263.
Eighty pounds less, and he's blowing Starks backwards on every play. o.o

 

[Gothgar]

Finally the niners d line figured out that o line

knock downs every pass

 

[MotionMan]

Nice dominating second half.

MotionMan

 

[SSSnail]

Starks: 6'8", 345.
Smith: 6'4", 263.
Eighty pounds less, and he's blowing Starks backwards on every play. o.o

Yeah, Niners better lock him up before he becomes expensive.

 

[MotF Bane]

Wait, I thought the Niners were the ones with the leaky O-line and Steelers were the ones with awesome blitz packages...

They did a zoom, and it didn't touch the white.

The Steelers O-line never impressed me much, it ends up relying a lot on Rofflesburger being hard to sack and very mobile. With his injury though, that philosophy isn't working.

I must've missed that zoom, I only saw a couple replays, nothing really decisive.

 

[MotF Bane]

Reffing is looking pretty poor overall tonight.

 

[poncherelli2]

These refs do not understand chop blocks

 

[MotionMan]

These refs do not understand chop blocks

How are they calling it wrong?

MotionMan

 

[Baked]

Damn, Pitt has no answer for Smith. Big Ben getting abused!

 

[SSSnail]

These refs do not understand chop blocks

They called one on Gore, they called one on here... Yeah, officiating is pretty crap so far.

 

[poncherelli2]

How are they calling it wrong?

MotionMan

In both instances a running back went low, but the rusher was not engaged. For it to be an illegal block, the defender has to be engaged already.

 

[MotF Bane]

3 picks for Ben.

 

[EvilYoda]

After Davis didn't get the initial touchdown, I was just hoping they'd play action and still give it to Davis.

Aaaaaand as I type that, Big Ben throws another INT.

 

[Baked]

INT Niners. Game.