NFL Week 3

[chuckywang]

ESPN.com estimates that 67,000 fantasy users on their site started or started against GB D/ST and either won or lost their matchup on the final play. Thats crazy.

 

No word on the number of users that started or started against the Seahawks kicker and lost because of the extra point no one wanted to kick, but I know there's one on here.

 

Also, why do you not have to kick an extra point for a TD that ends OT but with :00 left in regulation you do? It's absolutely completely meaningless and should be optional if the team doesn't want to take it. I get that somewhere between in the tiebreakers that no one ever gets to there is point differential, but then why not require XPs on all TDs including OT?

 

Cause OT is "sudden death" when a TD is scored, so the game ends immediately.

[chuckywang]

LOL

 

@QuincyPondexter

The real refs swag are gonna be outta control when they get back.. They prob wanna fly private now, roll around the field on Segway's

[SouthSideRyan]

Okay i am tired of the Tate PI bluster. It is making him look like a cheap shot player and with many pundits it is making Tate be the bad guy. Clearly he pushed shields but what noone else is mentioning is the other 2 packers that are manhandling the other Seahawks reciever just as blantantly pass interference. And seriously, how can there not be pass interference on a hail mary with everyone doing what they can for the ball. If they blew the Tate offensive PI then they blew the packers PI on Martin.

 

If they had called both would offsetting penalities end the game or would there be a final play?

 

Man, you really do excuse everything Seahawks. I mean, I've spent the morning arguing this was at least an somewhat defensible call, but the Tate PI was blatant and obvious.

 

I didn't see any PI on that play. Not on Seattle at least.

 

Tate clearly pushed Shields to the ground.

 

We must've been watching 2 different games. Looked like a football play to me.

[Old Style]

Is offensive pass interference not a football play?

[Guest]

lol

[Illini Iceman]

1: maybe we can get real refs soon

 

Don't hold your breath. The NFL is willing to stand pat. They feel that the short term pain is worth the long term gain.

 

http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/2012/writers/peter_king/09/25/nfl-referee-negotiations/index.html?sct=nfl_t2_a3

 

One of the emerging and major reasons why a deal has been so elusive, according to the source, is that the NFL is insisting on getting some control of the officials back that it has ceded in past negotiations with the NFLRA. This includes the league's desire to have three seven-man officiating crews in reserve with the ability to replace -- either for a game or longer -- underperforming current officials.

 

Another source with knowledge of the locked-out officials' position said Tuesday that the NFL would not guarantee that they would work at least 15 games in a regular season. Currently, other than due to injury, an official that starts a season works the full season. The officials source said that this is the main crux of what the NFL is trying to do in these negotiations: wrest back control of the officials' performance week to week in an NFL season. I've been told that the NFL is insisting on being able to make in-season changes to crews based solely on performance of individual officials.

 

Good idea - a lot of the regular refs suck as well and should be accountable.

[Outshined_One]

I feel like we're about 2-3 weeks away from some drunk lunatic running out onto the field and pulling a William Ligue on the replacement refs.

[SouthSideRyan]

I feel like we're about 2-3 weeks away from some drunk lunatic running out onto the field and pulling a William Ligue on the replacement refs.

 

I got money on Soul.

[rocket]

I feel like we're about 2-3 weeks away from some drunk lunatic running out onto the field and pulling a William Ligue on the replacement refs.

 

only if they get drunk at wrigley field first

[Soul]

I feel like we're about 2-3 weeks away from some drunk lunatic running out onto the field and pulling a William Ligue on the replacement refs.

 

I got money on Soul.

 

Booze too expensive at the games. Lines too long, too.

[Smack]

I feel like we're about 2-3 weeks away from some drunk lunatic running out onto the field and pulling a William Ligue on the replacement refs.

 

I got money on Soul.

 

Booze too expensive at the games. Lines too long, too.

 

You can drink some of Sully's moonshine in the parking lot and then roll in hot.

[Guest]

@AdamSchefter

As @mortreport is reporting, an agreement between NFL and NFLRA is at hand and both sides will work to have officials working this weekend.

[UMFan83]

The [final] pass was a mini-miracle, given that Wilson, Y! Sports has learned, called the wrong play in the huddle before lining up for the fourth-and-10 attempt with eight seconds remaining.

 

Instead of sending three receivers to the left corner of the end zone where Tate and Jennings ultimately fought for the ball, Wilson mistakenly called a "Waggle" play which called for him to roll right while several receivers ran underneath routes. Some Seahawks ran the play Wilson called, while others ran the one he was supposed to have called. Whatever – after he rolled right, drifted back to his left and planted at the 39-yard line before unleashing his high pass to the end zone, it all worked out in the end.

 

[Soul]

haha, yeah it worked out all right.

[Banedon]

@AdamSchefter

As @mortreport is reporting, an agreement between NFL and NFLRA is at hand and both sides will work to have officials working this weekend.

 

@SI_PeterKing: I'm hearing NFLRA negotiator Scott Green has notified officials that a deal is not imminent. Stay tuned, obviously.