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Is that true about unvaccinated players for other teams being able to play in New York? How does that work?

I worded that post poorly and didn’t mean to make it sound like I didn’t enjoy the game. I just meant I didn’t think it was an instant classic like the other couple. But still a really fun game to watch. Regardless of whatever bets I had, I was getting pretty excited for Bama to get down to the red zone, figure out a way to punch it in and set up a massive 2 pt conversion and then either Georgia ball or OT. So the TAINT made for a pretty anticlimactic last minute of game time (which felt like 15 minutes of real time). But the most dominant defense in the country sealing the win with a pick 6 is pretty cool. I definitely had a couple “boy this is really going to hurt when Georgia blows this” thoughts on that last drive.

Loved watching this game. I'll still take a future of QB duels going forward, but was so fun watching the linebackers from each team just get everything in the backfield while the safeties and DBs held down the secondary. Yeah, I love watching defenses cause chaos and there was a lot of that. Scoring wise obviously it wasn’t all that exciting especially in the first half. But I came away from this game thinking there are future NFL defensive studs on both teams. I worded that post poorly and didn’t mean to make it sound like I didn’t enjoy the game. I just meant I didn’t think it was an instant classic like the other couple. But still a really fun game to watch.

Like you said, that’s the game. This was a fun game to watch and not just because I’m happy Bama didn’t win. I didn’t think I’d be investing my entire evening into it but it was worthwhile. Yep. Not an amazing game like those couple Bama-Clemson games when Watson was there or even the first Bama-Georgia game. But the game wasn’t over until there was less than a minute left.

Georgia got lucky with the Metchie and Williams injuries but that’s a part of the game. They won’t care about that one bit.

*googles Brian Flores* *sees skin color* *realizes why Flores didn’t get more time* To be fair, the GM in Miami is black as well and there was reportedly some issues with them getting along. Ah. Didn’t know about either of those things.

*googles Brian Flores* *sees skin color* *realizes why Flores didn’t get more time*

I mean it makes zero logical sense why that changed things for LV. Have someone trying to argue with me on Twitter it signaled to LV that LA was playing to win, but how they used their TO is exactly the opposite of how you'd want to use them. They'd have to leave time or leave TO and they wouldn't have been in a position for either. Exactly. If the Chargers were trying to win and wanted time for a drive had the Raiders missed the FG, they wouldn’t have let 30 seconds run off the clock before calling the timeout. They would have called it immediately after the 2nd down play ended.

Whats the risk of losing the playoffs against the gain of playing Cincy over KC. Yeah, that's a big difference to me. Raiders are in a virtual no lose situation there. I suppose they could have had the kick blocked and returned for a TD, but how many times does that happen during the year? If they're locked in to playing one team with a win or a tie, they might just let the clock run out.

The bully finally got punched back and he doesn’t like the results.

Unless I’m missing something, wouldn’t you have an issue if your junior circuit playoff champion didn’t automatically qualify for the senior circuit through the league?

They kept Ole on far too long. Should have sacked him when they blew their UCL group last season. Isn’t Rangnick just the manager until the end of the year anyway and didn’t sign on long term or am I remembering that wrong? yea, right. but after 5 games now they are questioning him? I'm assuming it's just the media but it's ridiculous. Did they actually think he would come in and in 5 games solve all their problems? The problem is player evaluation in my opinion. They like shiny things more than soccer players. Oh for sure. They’ve got Rangnick for the rest of the year. No point in changing managers again this season. Just wait until after the year. I don’t think Ole was a good manager but I certainly don’t absolve the players either. A significant portion of the blame is on them and on who is bringing in the players.

They kept Ole on far too long. Should have sacked him when they blew their UCL group last season. Isn’t Rangnick just the manager until the end of the year anyway and didn’t sign on long term or am I remembering that wrong?

Quick explainer for someone who has no idea what this means rules wise? Is there a salary cap type thing for how you put your roster together? No salary involved at all. When you sign up, you get paired with 11 other randos, and you draft a team just like you would draft a home league. The only difference is that there are no waiver wire moves or roster decisions to be made over the course of the season. Each week, your top scores for each position(1qb, 2rb, 3wr, 1te, 1flex) count for points. Whole team gets hurt? Tough horsefeathers. Most people know which players are good, but the poor players draft QB too early and too often (even though a starting QB isn't outscoring other starting QBs by nearly enough to justify it.) The place to differentiate and give yourself the best shot at winning big is roster construction: just how many of each position to draft in total, and building in correlations for the playoff weeks. For instance, I drafted RB in each of my first three picks because I thought they were best talent available (zero RB was in vogue on this site.) If I have dreams of winning anything, those three are going to roll, and I just have to assume health, so I only took one more RB the entire draft and loaded up on WR to try and make up for quality with quantity (WR tends to be more boom/bust than RB anyways). And my Bengals "stack" really paid off in week 16 when I needed to beat 17 other teams to advance. Got it. So how does the regular season/playoffs work? Do you compete against the other 11 people you drafted against like normal fantasy football and the everyone who qualifies from their individual league (top whatever number of teams per league) competes against everyone else in one big group where a certain percentage of teams are eliminated each week?

[tweet] [/tweet] To be fair, they did get screwed out of a penalty.

Quick explainer for someone who has no idea what this means rules wise? Is there a salary cap type thing for how you put your roster together?

Is that really a hot take? I mean, you've got giant dudes running into each other all the time. Unless you make it flag football, it's going to be a very violent sport and you're going to have terrible injuries and a good amount of concussions.

Well, ok, yes, other stuff too but if you believe the bagmen stories that stuff happens everywhere down there and yet they do it way better than the others (except Texas A&M this year apparently) At Alabama they attract talent because they produce NFL players. It’s like a kind of momentum. Saban knows how to prepare these kids to be ready. He’s created a culture. It helps that he also has the highest paid assistants and great college town, but it’s about his process and what he does that sets him apart. I think it’s him, then every other program bunched together, more or less. Yeah, the short term money and the winning obviously matters. But the long term money matters too. If you show well at Bama, even if it’s just for a year, you’re going to be a high pick and they money you make there is more than whatever bag you get handed to go to Bama.

Am I the only one who is getting no videos as I'm re-reading? Are you on your phone? I've found that YouTube links haven't been loading on my phone recently Yeah, I had a couple that said the video was gone or something along those lines. But almost all of them were just fine.

I think you’ve got some big spurs-colored glasses with the framing of the play here, man. Don’t what else to say but I disagree on every word. Doherty's head is a ball diameter away from the ball here. That's about as bang bang as you can get. 1) keepers are uniquely exposed when coming out for a ball, like a wide receiver reaching for a pass over the middle 2) keepers are significantly more valuable to take out of a play than anyone else on the field, there’s a reason that some corner kick routines try to box them out, to allow some contact is to invite everyone to try to take out the keeper legally because there’s huge rewards even if you don’t win the ball 3) because of 1 and 2, adding any leeway increases injury risk to keepers significantly, because they’re vulnerable and valuable you’ve now made it the logical play to try to physically box them out of every play, hoping that a small percentage get the judgment call to go your way. That means keepers are taking bumps left and right on balls in the box, and all because a keeper fumbled a ball while being hip checked on a hopeful cross? All rules are arbitrary but these ones are fine. No, it's not just all because of this one play. I've held these beliefs long before this. Though in the case of this specific play, we're rewarding stupidity. He should have just punched the ball away and had he done so, there's no issue at all. As I said before, I've seen a number of instances where a goalie comes out after a ball that's going to land in the middle of a group of people, the goalie creates the contact, goes down and gets a free kick out of it. The current system rewards goalies making bad decisions on coming out on the ball because they know they'll get the benefit of the doubt 10 times out of 10. This play for example happens in part because of overprotection of goalkeepers. De Gea doesn't even bother trying to get up because he thinks the opponent got his ankle and he's been taught to just stay on the ground. And it cost his team a goal because it was his teammate got him. The referee doesn't even see what happens. He just sees the goalie on the ground, waives off the goal and gives the free kick to ManU. Thankfully VAR got the call right. We'll just have to agree to disagree on this. Nothing wrong with that.

I'm aware that under the current rules it's a foul. I think the current rules should be changed because they favor the goalkeeper way too much.

Doherty isn’t late. He arrives literally a split second after the ball does. If that was at midfield it’s a shoulder to shoulder play. Forster came barreling in also and collided with Doherty just as much as Doherty collided with him. I think you’re way overestimating what would happen if a little contact was allowed. We expect referees to legislate contact all over the field. Why not with goalies also? Slide tackling is allowed even though occasionally there are terrible tackles that are red cards. And even though it’s allowed, we don’t see star players get taken out left and right with ankle breaking slide tackles. We can have some nuance here. It’s possible to have a middle ground where you can make contact with a goalie without headhunting them every time.

Again, so they're just not allowed to touch the goalie at all? If that's another field player who is going for the ball, it's not a foul. Those types of plays happen all the time over the course of a game. Why treat the goalie different. He's already go the advantage of being able to use his hands. Forster easily could have just punched the ball clear. Would have been the smart play since when he comes for the ball, there's two of his teammates there and a Spurs player plus Doherty came in. If he punches it, no issue. Instead he tries to catch it. And the ball is already going through his arms when Doherty made contact so Forster screwed up before Doherty touches him. I'm not sure why you're bringing up undercutting since Doherty didn't do that. I agree, undercutting is horrible. It should be a foul everywhere on the field. But that's not what happened here. I used this specific play because it happened yesterday but I have an issue overall with how goalies are treated. Why do goalies get/need so much protection? Most of them are already the tallest person on the field and they have the advantage of being able to use their hands. I'm not saying it should be open season on them. But if they can't handle a little contact when coming for a ball, maybe don't come out for the ball? They don't have the right to just come out and catch every ball without the other team going for it. Punch it away if you're not sure. If the ball was already in Forster's hands when Doherty makes contact and that caused the ball to come out, I'd have no issue with it. Or this play from a couple weeks ago where Schmeichel barely got his hand on the ball before the player kicks it. It was a bang-bang play but that's 100% a safety issue. We don't need players trying to kick the ball out of a goalie's hands. [tweet] [/tweet]

How have we gotten to a place where goalkeepers basically can't be touched in any way or it's a foul? Like a goalie can go barreling off his line towards a ball in the air, crash into an opponent and it's a virtual lock to be a foul on the opponent. Why? It's a contact sport. I don't understand why the above is a foul on Doherty but Moura just goes over the top of a defender against Palace on Sunday with more contact and they let it stand. I'm not arguing Moura's should have been waived off at all. I just don't understand why Doherty was whistled for a foul. I haven't even considered what Ian Wright said in the above clip either. A goalie is trained to high point the ball and had Forster done that, he would have caught it no problem. But he gets rewarded for letting the ball drop to his chest. I guess what I'm saying is some contact on a goalie should be allowed. Not necessarily knocking the ball out of their hands. But you should be able to challenge for a ball without having to worry that the slightest bit of contact will result in a foul.