LII :::: the super bowl of hate :::: philadelphia eagles vs new england patritos

the #notalleaglefans whiny defenses on FB have been kind of funny.

Collinsworth was in the middle of his catch/no catch meltdown and said something like “he catches the ball runs for three steps — but is he a runner or a receiver...” and I wanted to throw the TV about the window

― YouTube_-_funy_cats.flv (Jimmy The Mod Awaits The Return Of His Beloved), Monday, February 5, 2018 9:58 AM (two hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

that was so bizarre i was like is he having a stroke, and then the officials took forever to do finish the review and i was like am i having a stroke maybe no one knows what a catch is maybe its unknowable

catch is a feeling

i dont hate collingsworth at all but he had a rough game last night.

he was incorrectly thinking it might be the same as the overturned Steelers TD and lacked understanding of why that receiver was not a runner while this one was.

I like Collinsworth in general but yea, he was pretty bad last night

pretty amusing how he went from "By the rule, that is NOT a catch" to "isn't it incredible how Gronk sells the holding call better than anyone" in the span of like, two minutes

the #notalleaglefans whiny defenses on FB have been kind of funny.

― Hi diddley dee, hen fapper's life for me (Neanderthal), Monday, February 5, 2018 12:09 PM (twenty-three minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

fuck millie and f u

the ertz one was clearly a catch and I couldn’t believe collinsworth was saying that and people actually thought it wasn’t. first could have gone either way prob but it did look like a catch to me, and the call on the field was a TD

even after the Eagles WON and were CELEBRATING Collinsworth was writing love sonnets for the final Pats TD that never was

god he is the worst

cbs next year, nantz/romo

the romo hype is real i love hearing him call a game

they shoulda brought chucky in for one last hoorah

feel like the thing romo has going for him is hes a departure from nfl culture as embodied by typical gruff ill tell you what tv guys

ertz call was much closer than ppl are making it out to be itt, i think because the slow motion view distorts it to make it look more like deliberate steps than momentum. i'd call it probably a catch, not definitely. but it was better for the patriots that it was ruled a TD or else philly could've sat on it with a fresh set of downs and run the clock down from the 1y.

not that this in anyway excuses collinsworth's weird meltdown

he took three steps dove and reached out the ball the damn nfl has lost its mind lol

shd mention he also turned

its perfect how the sport thats the most rulesy has descended into this weird post modernism

given the modern NFL they could've ruled that a touchback lmao

btw has any decent explanation came out about why Malcolm Butler was benched? dunno if he would've been a difference maker but god damn, it's not like the Pats defense could've done any worse. they just needed one play.

xxxxxpost if it wasn't ruled a touchdown, it would have been an incomplete pass, and it would have then been 4th and 7 from the 11 yard line.

the catch thing is v difficult, i have a lot of sympathy for whoever is tasked with trying to sort that shit out. imo it just needs to be clearer, even if it becomes less "accurate". just say if it might be a catch then it's a catch and have done with it.

oh yeah, you're right, i have lost the plot

i hate it. if you cross the plain with possession whatever happens after shouldnt matter imo

let's just be happy the strip sack wasn't ruled an incomplete pass

yeah they really need to find a way to get closer to a looks like a catch definition f all this super slowmo replay where theyre trying to figure out if the ball is slightly moving around in a guys hands

I feel like the rule change after 1999 allowing part of the ball to touch the ground and still be a catch accelerated the expansion of the scope of "control" in the league. maybe they should revert to not letting the ball hit the ground, just say a catch is a catch if it looked like he caught it and it didn't hit the turf.

idk

f all this super slowmo replay where theyre trying to figure out if the ball is slightly moving around in a guys hands

otm

they should do live action voting. text 'yes' to 45344 if you think its a catch text 'no to 63404 if you dont think its a catch

if a catch is sick they shd allow it imo

"Dax Prescott has not thrown an incomplete pass all night due to voting-bloc collusion and robo-dialing by Cowboys fans"

play is under review - was the catch sick or nah

when will the nfl wise up and play with a felt ball while wearing velcro onesies?

he took three steps dove and reached out the ball the damn nfl has lost its mind lol

― lag∞n, Monday, February 5, 2018 1:00 PM (twelve minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

lol he also changed direction has everyone gone completely insane

like for the love of god

i'm still hyped off that Clement stiff arm is where I'm at today.

might be cool to switch to a way more permissive definition of a catch just like does he have the ball no football move no surviving the ground no becoming a runner etc, wld result in a ton more catches and a ton of fumbles

let's just be happy the strip sack wasn't ruled an incomplete pass
― mookieproof, Monday, February 5, 2018

the clement td was more questionable than the ertz td imo the ertz was for sure an obvious catch you can't make that break the plane extension if you don't have full control. btw putting aside that the clement td *was* questionable - how amazing is it that this undrafted rookie RB scored a TD in the Superbowl??? i cannot get over it. i cannot get over this team. so much character on it.

the nfl in revamping their product shd go for encouraging wacky unpredictable shit eliminate the PAT do 2pt conversions only eliminate punting or have a limited number of punts per team radically more permissive reception rules as mentioned and so forth

Issue is control. Looks like he has it initially and gets both feet down in bounds. There is some movement of the ball, but don’t think enough to say loss of control. Call should stand.

— Dean Blandino (@DeanBlandino) February 5, 2018

they should bring in retired refs to give their analysis like tnt does with steve javie

someone - i want to say warren sharp - predicted a breakout game for corey clement because the patriots have been so bad covering rbs specifically on downfield routes and clement is a much better target for those than ajayi or blount. he was involved in a number of big plays, a huge wheel play in the first half i remember. i don't know if i had even heard of him before that mention.

I’m assuming this has been done in depth, so what do the techs who design social media algorithms say the nfl rules should “incorporate”?

after further analysis of the zapruder film it's been determined that when Jackie took three steps, dove, and reached out to grab JFK's brain she didn't have possession when she crossed the plane back into her seat so gonna have to rule that one incomplete.

xp violent collision, beer, institutional racism iirc

the nfl in revamping their product shd go for encouraging wacky unpredictable shit eliminate the PAT do 2pt conversions only eliminate punting or have a limited number of punts per team radically more permissive reception rules as mentioned and so forth

― lag∞n, Monday, February 5, 2018 1:20 PM (eleven minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

I agree, things of that nature

wonder if going for it on 4th is going to become more common now that dougie p has so enthusiastically embraced it and found success. meanwhile pats were conservative on 4th + 1.

it's pretty cool when it's 3rd and 1 and you know that the team actually has two downs to work w/

I agree, things of that nature

― k3vin k., Monday, February 5, 2018 1:33 PM (three minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

a more skilled version of college footballs wild ride if you will