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  1. minnesotacubsfan
    Are there many flukey, shouldn't even be there NHL teams winning the Stanley cup? Seems to me that despite the added hurdle of needing to win more and longer series, the past 8 or so in a row have all be excellent teams. While you get the occasional 8 seed, it's often the case that it was actually a great team that didn't have a great season (LAK). You had almost an entire decade where only Detroit, Colorado and New Jersey won all the cups. You've had the same 5 dominant teams controlling the Cup for the past several years. I think people in general overplay the crapshoot storyline. MLB is probably the most and it's not even a true crapshoot. Yea, NHL is predictable compared relative to MLB I'd go: NBA NHL NFL MLB
  2. minnesotacubsfan
    i don't know why this would be Yeah, football playoffs aren't a total crapshoot
  3. minnesotacubsfan
    He's taken two teams from two different conferences to the Super Bowl. Why is this even a thing? It's just a goofy anomaly that he happened to do it in two conferences, not an actual special accomplishment (beyond taking 2 teams to the SB - which is debatable as to how much of it is an accomplishment and how much is blind playoff luck - or riding Peyton's coattails). That takes a lot of effort to write all of that off. Not really. Especially not the two different conferences part. That is a completely meaningless anecdote. Carolina's Super Bowl run was an 11-5 wild card team, which meant they won three playoff games to get to the Super Bowl. After a down year, they went 11-5 again, making it to the NFC Championship game. Both of those runs were with Jake Delhomme as QB. And this is what makes me hope for a Tom Coughlin redux as long as the redux hasn't already happened and failed in Denver
  4. minnesotacubsfan
    I wonder how this fares for Cutler
  5. minnesotacubsfan
    and everybody knows, fire doesn't melt steel I don't think it's that, I just hate watching the Packers win
  6. minnesotacubsfan
    Austin is mildly interesting. Fox might be fine with the right coordinators. Bowles is already gone. Hey, I gotta idea, Marc Trestman!!!! Man we fucked this up by missing Arians
  7. minnesotacubsfan
    I keep watching these videos on my phone and it's impossible for me to make it out. Regardless, it's such a moot point anyways, the game is over. Sucks what could have been a great play didn't end that way, and I'm over it.
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    I get the implication, it APPEARS the ball could have touched the ground.But in the first gif, the pile-on blocks a clear view (and the ref has a better view calling it a catch) and the second pic doesnt show the ball all the way to the ground. for all I know, the motion of Bryants hand shifting from hitting the ground could be enough to dislodge it. If those are the views the refs had to review the play, I just dont see how they could overturn it. Besides, three posts up, it shows him having possession with his forearm on the ground. He was down at that point, or should have been. I'm really not batchit crazy, just stubborn.
  9. minnesotacubsfan
    holy god if we ended up with Marrone that would be unbelievably tragic
  10. minnesotacubsfan
    Yea, locker room is a mess but the talent is there at least on one side of the ball. It's not a bad situation to walk into
  11. minnesotacubsfan
    Yea, I mean people don't do that in football
  12. minnesotacubsfan
    maybe the Bears can nab him in the 2nd
  13. minnesotacubsfan
    he looks like a farmer?
  14. minnesotacubsfan
    not being obtuse, but I rally havent seen a replay where its clear the ball hits the ground.
  15. minnesotacubsfan
    GO OSU
  16. minnesotacubsfan
    Fox reminds me of Tom Coughlin a lot. Now, if he could come here and win a couple of super bowls late in his career I'll be a huge fan.
  17. minnesotacubsfan
    Yes, he did have control of it. And because of that control, the play is dead when the ball touches. A player is either a receiver (in the process of catching the ball) or a runner (has shown possession of the ball). The rules are different for receivers and runners - a receiver has not yet shown possession of the ball, so if it touches the ground and comes loose, it's incomplete. Because a runner has shown possession of the ball already, when the ball hits, it's dead. in this case, where Bryant catches the ball, takes 2 steps, changes hands with the ball and THEN falls down, it seems more relevant to the runners situation. But JUST because the ball was thrown down the field, that changes everything? idk. and if there is a screen shot of the ball clearly touching the ground, could someone show me it?
  18. minnesotacubsfan
    made contact, thigh on the ground, no actual visual proof of the ball touching even a BLADE of grass (that I've seen yet) Dallas got hosed.
  19. minnesotacubsfan
    We did worse, we did Marc Trestman. Now, I'd like to do much better
  20. minnesotacubsfan
    WRONG THREAD PLZ
  21. minnesotacubsfan
    well then I'm just stuck in the past, or want to be. I think its a dumbly thought out rule. It seems like they made it to help WR's, but I think in some cases it just makes it more confusing. Well, so far, like all cases.
  22. minnesotacubsfan
    Well, if the catch yesterday happened as Bryant was heading out of bounds, he wouldn't have reached the ball forward for the end zone. My scenario could be in the middle of the field. So, if the player gets greedy with his ball control it's catch? I'm confused what your point is. Just looking for clarification. the point is you can tap two tows on the sideline fall out of bounds and have the ball hit the ground as you go down and its a catch. But if you do it in the middle of the field its not. That seems contradictory I don't think your point is accurate at all. Getting 2 feet down is not the end of the story. Maintaining control is the key. If you go to the ground out of bounds and the ball pops lose, it's no catch. so if he changes hands 2-3 times before he bobbles it at the end, its not a catch? Is there actually a view that clearly shows the ball touching the ground? And what about the times the ball does touch the ground but is still "a catch"?
  23. minnesotacubsfan
    I had a hard time finding a view of the ball actually touching the ground too. For me, thats kind of the thing though, if I cant SEE the ball touching the ground, how can I overturn the call on the field? Maybe I just havent seen the right view, but so far I just havent seen it.
  24. minnesotacubsfan
    anything to screw the Lions. j/k, the rule was new for the year and one the refs were tracking in 2010, the Johnson catch was the first call involving it. The rule sucked then and it sucks now. Bryant was robbed. He had more of a catch then Johnson did, and Johnson's should have been a TD. That coming from a fan of the team that benefited from Johnson's non-catch. I hope you mean robbed by the rule rather than robbed by the refs yesterday. If it's the latter then your post doesn't make sense. well yea, I think the rule sucks. The refs did their thing, but even then I think they could have called that a catch just because of the way Bryant caught it.
  25. minnesotacubsfan
    Well, if the catch yesterday happened as Bryant was heading out of bounds, he wouldn't have reached the ball forward for the end zone. My scenario could be in the middle of the field. So, if the player gets greedy with his ball control it's catch? I'm confused what your point is. Just looking for clarification. the point is you can tap two tows on the sideline fall out of bounds and have the ball hit the ground as you go down and its a catch. But if you do it in the middle of the field its not. That seems contradictory
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