NFL Week 12: Bubbler gets his Lisch

I still don't understand why that's not reviewable. And I'm guessing it's one of those arcane NFL rules that led to the penalty for throwing the red flag? Why not pick it up in that case?

 

It's a delay of game penalty, otherwise you'd have coaches throwing flags when they knew they couldn't, just to be dicks to the refs.

Schwartz has no excuse. This is the EXACT situation Harbaugh got penalized for last year, so he has seen it.

 

Thanks, LTL.

And now we have a "Lion Leap" that's not penalized? OK, call me a Niners fanboi in this case, but someone tell me one more time why that was a penalty against Vernon Davis in the NFC title game in January, but isn't anywhere else?

 

And this is why every play should be reviewable, just like college. Take away the challenge flags and get it right. That call would've taken 2 seconds to overturn.

 

Far too many replay reviews anyway.

 

How much did the Pittsburgh fanbase "dwindle" between 1980 and 1994?

 

I think we're starting to see an unintended consequence of this new overtime. The 49ers game ended in a tie, the Texans game last week was three minutes from being a tie, and now this one is looking like even money to be a tie. That first-possession rule is really affecting the way teams are calling plays.

 

Who knows, but it did. Steeler fans are much more passionate now and were in the 1970s about the Steelers than they were in the 1980s.

People get pissed, frustrated and apathetic when team suck for extended periods of time. To say that they do not, to me, does not make any sense.

 

Detroit's inability to run the ball is glaring.

 

Does Schwartz know not to call back-to-back time outs here?

 

Kicking field goals couldn't possibly be as difficult as we've seen today ... so far.

 

Just an incredible game from RGIII so far today.