Week 1 Running NFL Thread (Warren Moon edition)

Bears commit four turnovers and 100 yards worth of penalties, and go scoreless on a 4th and goal from the 1. And win.

 

Have you forgotten just how dominant Mel Blount was? The NFL changed the rules in large part because of him. Polamalu isn't even the best defensive back they have ever had. He's not even a Hall of Famer unless he can get through a few more seasons healthy.

When he is healthy? Yeah, he's the most important defensive player in the league. But health is a big problem for him.

 

How in the hell that was not a touchdown? And the rules stayed it's not a TD?

The Bears deserved to lose that game on stupid coaching alone.

 

I'm one of the six Bears fans or so that didn't want Lovie Smith fired going into the season. And Lovie Smith didn't fail to open any holes for the running game, drop the football three times, or take 100 yards in penalties.

But hot damn on a biscuit, how in the world do you not take the points midway through the 4th quarter down 1? That should be a firable decision right there.

 

I wasn't watching the game, but that's what had me wondering when I saw the highlight of the fourth-down stop. How the hell do you not take the go-ahead field goal? Just stupid.

 

It's the rule. You have to abide by it. You can't make a case-by-case decision on whether the ruling is in the spirit of the rule. You go by the letter of the rule. They had the former head of officials on TV during the replay review and he stated unequivocally that it was an incompletion, and stated it repeatedly.

 

Not it doesn't. It's an ironclad rule. There was no question, no judgment involved. Detroit didn't even argue.

 

You can have Mel, who was amazing, but I will take Troy.

 

Facemasking is only a penalty if you do it to someone other than Aaron Rodgers, apparently.

 

And here we go with the idiot conspiracy theory crap. Sorry, but the NFL doesn't gain enough by fixing an opening-week game between the Bears and Lions to take that kind of risk.

Come on. Think it through. You're smarter than that...sometimes.

 

No. That's not it at all. Not whatsoever. Not even close. He was still falling to the ground. He didn't hold onto the ball through that process. Thus, incompletion. No interpretation required.

 

Nope. Haven't seen it. I'm not even saying it is the correct call. I'm saying that it is stupid to believe the NFL would take that kind of risk to fix an opening-week game. To fix any game, for that matter. What do they gain?