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NFL Week 10: BEAR DOWN (and FOLES)

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Ravens win and are at the top of the mountain.

Who's gonna knock em down?
 
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re: NFL Offseason: DRAFT TODAY (and all through the weekend)

Anybody caught this news yet?

Joe Flacco Was Ready To Leave The Sideline And Tackle Ted Ginn On The Super Bowl’s Last Play
Barry Petchesky

How does a quarterback, helpless on the sidelines, deal with being on the brink of their first Super Bowl win? Tom Brady turned away, unable to watch. Eli Manning was giddy, probably planning to ride the Teacups over and over again. Joe Flacco? He was planning to cheat. Maybe he is elite.

The NFL has released its "Sound FX" for the final few minutes of the Super Bowl, and as always, it's fantastic, and has more Jim Harbaugh freakouts. Football is inherently cinematic, but having ground-level audio from mic'ed up players adds a human aspect that's lost while watching in realtime.

But let's examine this segment, on the Ravens sidelines as the 49ers prepared for a last-ditch kick return with four seconds left. If Ted Ginn Jr. returned it for a touchdown, 49ers win. If not, Ravens win. Joe Flacco was prepared to do anything to make sure he didn't go all the way. (Video by SBNation.)

Flacco (jokingly, we think and hope) tells Dennis Pitta and Marshal Yanda that if Ginn breaks through the coverage team, they should run on the field and bring him down. He says he's willing to do it too. This would have been the greatest ending in Super Bowl history.

"I don't know what the rule is on that," Flacco said. Unfortunately for his grand plan, the officials knew. According to the NFL rulebook,

If a substitute enters the field of play or the end zone while the ball is in play, it is an illegal substitution. If an illegal substitute inferes with the play, it may be a palpably unfair act.

For a palpably unfair act: Offender may be disqualified. The referee, after consulting his crew, enforces any such distance penalty as they consider equitable and irrespective of any other specified code penalty. The referee may award a score.

Had the world been graced with the stunning sight of Ted Ginn streaking down the sideline, only to be swarmed by helmet-less Ravens off the bench, the officials would have flagged it and given the 49ers the touchdown anyway. And then Ravens fans, convinced that Ginn would have been chased down legally and would not have scored, would burn down Flacco's house, New Orleans, and indeed all of Earth.
Found at this link: http://deadspin.com/5982436/joe-flacco-was-ready-to-leave-the-sideline-and-tackle-ted-ginn-on-the-super-bowls-last-play

Oh man. I hate to hear shit like that. That is some bush league bullshit right there. Is Flacco going to turn into the next player I can't stand? For now, I am going to chalk this up to nerves over the ending of the Super Bowl and hope this isn't an indicator of how he'll be going forward.
 
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re: NFL Offseason: DRAFT TODAY (and all through the weekend)

Flacco has a very dry sense of humor if you're not familiar with him. He deadpans a lot of jokes. Or I'm wrong and he's a douchebag. Pretty sure I'm right though.

Watched it. He did seem serious. It's not anything that makes him a dick though.
 
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re: NFL Offseason: DRAFT TODAY (and all through the weekend)

Even if he's not, it's not a reason to hate the guy. It's not like he murdered someone.
No, that's his ex-teammate.
 
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Listen, I'm not saying I wouldn't go fishin' with the guy but even Flacco has to know that even if they did that the other team is awarded with a touchdown right.... right? Surely he knew that so I have to assume he wasn't serious.
 
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To piss people off that complain about not having [NFL] or [NHL] or [NBA] in the thread titles.

I'm guessing, anyways.
I'm pretty sure it's this. It's still easy to tell the threads apart though. NFL thread is newer with much fewer posts.
 
#55 ·
re: NFL Offseason: DRAFT TODAY (and all through the weekend)

Aid would you want Jermichael Finley on the Bears? Packers might not bring him back.
If he's cheap, sure. Better than the crap Chicago has now at TE. I would take many people over Finley too, but I'd be ok with Finley.
 
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re: NFL Offseason: DRAFT TODAY (and all through the weekend)

"I won't play in another uniform," Boldin said in an interview Friday on NBC Sports Radio. "We have a saying, once a Raven, always a Raven, and I'll always be a Raven." "I think you go out and let your play speak for itself," Boldin told NBC Sports Radio. "You deal with that if you have to, but, I think for me -- I know for me -- Baltimore is the only place I want to play."


omg :jose
 
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