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NFL 2015.1 - if the ball weighs as much as a duck, it's a catch!

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I turned that game on with, like 6 minutes to go. I feel like I saw an entire game's worth of drama. That was nuts.
 
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Incredible

That was a crappy chit game for 2.5 hrs. Then all of a sudden BAM
 
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I can't be too mad.

Sure they gave away the game with poor decisions, poor performance, bad luck and injuries (really a very indicative performance for the '15 Packers), but (also in '15 Packers fashion) they also made it just interesting enough to tease like they had more in them.

Better to show some amount of fight and fail than to lose horribly. Plus that was at least 61 minutes of more football than this year's squad deserved, so... not too upset by the result here.

Jordy Nelson for MVP though. Newton earned it, but wow look at how **** this offense is without him.
 
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ExileOnDaytonStreet said:
I can't be too mad.

Sure they gave away the game with poor decisions, poor performance, bad luck and injuries (really a very indicative performance for the '15 Packers), but (also in '15 Packers fashion) they also made it just interesting enough to tease like they had more in them.

Better to show some amount of fight and fail than to lose horribly. Plus that was at least 61 minutes of more football than this year's squad deserved, so... not too upset by the result here.
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I wonder how much thought they gave to going for 2 at the end of regulation. Rodgers is notorious for losing in overtime.
 
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Yeah... not sure why you'd wanna have a guy anywhere near Larry ****ING Fitzgerald in OT.


I'm also fine. This was a flawed team and not an actual contender.

Unfortunately, not a bad enough season to jettison Ted or Mike.


Both of them are past their expiration date.
 
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I'm sick of Thompson too.

Wasting a lot of Rodgers' prime building for the future.


Thompson sucks.
 
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Fighting Sioux 23 said:
I was certainly thinking it after the Hail Mary completion. Rodgers has never won in OT.
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Not sure how tonight had anything to do with Rodgers and I can't remember him making critical errors in the past either.

I know that wins and losses get pinned on QBs and I'm more than happy to join in when it applies (Favre v Giants... Favre v Rams...), but I just don't remember Rodgers being bad in OT.

We've lost some, I just don't remember any where I felt it was his fault.
 
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Gurtholfin said:
Not sure how tonight had anything to do with Rodgers and I can't remember him making critical errors in the past either.

I know that wins and losses get pinned on QBs and I'm more than happy to join in when it applies (Favre v Giants... Favre v Rams...), but I just don't remember Rodgers being bad in OT.

We've lost some, I just don't remember any where I felt it was his fault.
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Certainly not his fault. However, given the momentum of the situation, I would have seriously considered going for the win. Green Bay had played well on Defense, but Arizona was one of the best (if not the best) offense in the NFL this season...plus Arizona has a strong defense. Throw in injuries, and the fact that the XP is not automatic, and two points seemed awfully enticing.
 
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Fighting Sioux 23 said:
Certainly not his fault. However, given the momentum of the situation, I would have seriously considered going for the win. Green Bay had played well on Defense, but Arizona was one of the best (if not the best) offense in the NFL this season...plus Arizona has a strong defense. Throw in injuries, and the fact that the XP is not automatic, and two points seemed awfully enticing.
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I don't disagree with any of that. :)


I just don't believe that the impetus would be Rodgers' OT record. That's all I'm saying.
 
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Shirtless Guy said:
How about framing it as McCarthy's OT record?
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I'm more than good with that.


He always has that stupid befuddled look on his face when the world is falling apart around him.
 
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It really is amazing to me how ****ed up things have gotten with what a catch is and isn't. I don't see how The play McCarthy challenged could be considered a catch? Or more importantly, how upon review, it would stand vs be confirmed. Either he somehow made a football move and was a runner (confirmed) or he didn't and its overturned?
 
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Shirtless Guy said:
It really is amazing to me how ****ed up things have gotten with what a catch is and isn't. I don't see how The play McCarthy challenged could be considered a catch? Or more importantly, how upon review, it would stand vs be confirmed. Either he somehow made a football move and was a runner (confirmed) or he didn't and its overturned?
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That play and the Clinton-Dix INT should have been ruled incomplete by the way the rule reads.

They should make it easy. Possession + 2 feet (or equivalent) in = Catch.
 
MinnesotaNorthStar said:
That play and the Clinton-Dix INT should have been ruled incomplete by the way the rule reads.

They should make it easy. Possession + 2 feet (or equivalent) in = Catch.
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How do you define possession, though? That's what the whole requirement of a football move is about: demonstrating that you've actually caught it and possess it.
 
unofan said:
How do you define possession, though? That's what the whole requirement of a football move is about: demonstrating that you've actually caught it and possess it.
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Did anyone watch the "replay" of Super Bowl I? There were no misunderstandings then. "Down by contact" was not yet invented.

Much better game.
 
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joecct said:
Did anyone watch the "replay" of Super Bowl I? There were no misunderstandings then. "Down by contact" was not yet invented.

Much better game.
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No instant replay, so no chance to overturn an incorrect call (and you're kidding yourself if you don't think players *****ed to refs back then). Which makes for better flow to a game, but there's no way it goes back to that.
 
unofan said:
No instant replay, so no chance to overturn an incorrect call (and you're kidding yourself if you don't think players *****ed to refs back then). Which makes for better flow to a game, but there's no way it goes back to that.
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This whining is all the fault of one GLA!
 
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