Nfl Regular season thread ( week 5 )

[mooby]

Originally Posted by Ruhskins

Did anyone catch this by the way? Talk about hitting a low point for the Cowpukes...which is great

From Matt Mosley:

Right tackles shouldn't go to the ground during TD celebrations: The Cowboys tied the score at 27 on a touchdown pass to Jason Witten in the fourth quarter. The tight end flipped the ball to right tackle Marc Colombo to let him spike the ball. The two of them then did a leaping chest-bump, which led to Colombo landing on his backside. According to an NFL rule, a player cannot go to the ground during a touchdown celebration. And I guess poor coordination isn't a plausible defense. The 15-yard penalty meant that kicker David Buehler couldn't get a touchback, which contributed to Marc Mariani's 73-yard return. The Titans quickly scored to make it 34-27.

I haven't seen the video, so I can't say with certainty I know what happened, but it sounds like (from Matt Mosley's writeup) Colombo fell to the ground during the touchdown celebration and got penalized for it.

Ordinarily I would never try to defend the Cowboys on anything, especially on something that contributed to their demise, but that's just another case of the NFL being overzealous about the rules at all times. If a guy falls to the ground during a touchdown celebration unintentionally it shouldn't be a penalty, it should only be a penalty if it's intentional.

Same thing with Megatron's catch in week 1 against the Bears. I can see why the officials didn't rule it a catch because according to the definition in the rulebook, that wasn't a catch. But he cleanly caught it and had possession in the end zone, and it wasn't like the ball fell out of his hands, he just put it on the ground and got up. But as soon as possession was established in the end zone it should've been ruled a catch. I hope they amend that rule in the offseason because that was obviously a game changing moment and it was negated because everybody is too concerned with rules. I'm not trying to make it sound like rules aren't important and shouldn't be followed, but if they are going to be so proactive on enforcing a shallow rule like that, then they need to be proactive and call every broken rule on every play. You're gonna penalize a guy for unintentionally falling to the ground during a celebration but you won't penalize a tackle for wrapping his arm around a defenders neck to prevent him from sacking the qb?

/rant over.

[EARTHQUAKE2689]

Originally Posted by Dirtbag359

Well for starters I was messing around. However the 49ers are not your typical 0-4 team. Lots of bad luck and mistakes are the result of the 0-now 5 start. They might be the most talented 0-5 team in the history of the league.

Like the uber-talented 1-3 Cowboys.

[Giantone]

Originally Posted by GMScud

Most of these 1pm games are serious stinkers.

LOL..........got to disagree on that one.

[skinsfaninok]

^ way to play yesterday Giantone! You rolled Houston up like we were until we caved.. Texans D is by far the worst in football, they are pretenders IMO.. But still a good road win.

[12thMan]

Wade Phillips and Jason Garret are toast after this year, maybe before. The Cowboys have Pro Bowlers up and down that roster, but for some reason this team just doesn't play with any fire or sense of urgency.

I'd be very surprised if they make the playoffs this year.

[12thMan]

Talk about a deceiving stats; The Cowboys are 2nd in total offense, 8th in defense. Yet they're 1-3.

The Skins, on the other hand, are dead last in defense, right in the middle of the pack on offense and we're 3-2, tied for first in the division. Love it.

[Lotus]

Originally Posted by FRPLG

At 1-4 they'd be cooked. They'd have to go 9-2 the rest of the way and seriously is there anyone alive who thinks that brain-trust won't lose them at 2 more games after that? Dallas is in trouble. They have to right this ship now or they can mail it in.

It is a long season. If the Boys are 1-4 after the Vikings game, they only have to go 8-3 to finish 9-7, which could win a wild card this year. At 1-4 they will be no worse than 2.5 games out of first place and could, depending on next week's results, be only 1.5 games out of first place. Stranger things have happened than a possible Cowboys resurgence.

Am I predicting such a resurgence? Hell no. I think they will spiral downward.

But it is too early to stick a fork in them with certainty.

[aceinthehouse]

What's killing the cowboys is not the fact that they are 1-3,it's the fact that 2 of those 3 losses are @Home in their yard.

They lose to Chicago and Tennessee at home and those are 2 teams that are beatable with the high praise the cowboys get week end and week out.

They only have 6 more home games remaining Redskins,Giants Eagles,Saints,Jaguars and Lions.
None of those Home games are going to be easy including the way the Lions are putting up points and the way the Jags are playing.

and their road games are going to be brutal with Giants,Eagles,Vikings,Packers,Colts,Cardinals remaining...

[Raw0114]

As i've said i a previous post i live in WI and went to my local Packer freindly bar in my Taylor 21 jersey. I got alot of flack for the first 3 qtrs, but by the 4th I wasn't hearing the same cocky bs. I loved this game LL is a beast! D Mc is a Warrior. We have a reason to be positive this year and the NFC East can be ours if we want it! HTTR!

[12thMan]

Originally Posted by Dirtbag359

Well for starters I was messing around. However the 49ers are not your typical 0-4 team. Lots of bad luck and mistakes are the result of the 0-now 5 start. They might be the most talented 0-5 team in the history of the league.

Every winless team has bad luck, that's not the point. They haven't managed to press through their misfortunes and bad luck to get a win a quarter through the season.

Truth is there's probably not much separating most NFL teams in terms of talent, but it's all about playing for four quarters and the 49ers, thus far, have not been able to do that. Good teams create luck, bad teams succumb to it.

[MTK]

The 49ers are a total cluster F right now.

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[TheMalcolmConnection]

Originally Posted by 12thMan

Wade Phillips and Jason Garret are toast after this year, maybe before. The Cowboys have Pro Bowlers up and down that roster, but for some reason this team just doesn't play with any fire or sense of urgency.

I'd be very surprised if they make the playoffs this year.

Anyone notice they didn't act as entitled after a 2 yard gain for a first down yesterday? I've never seen a Cowboys team in years act that beat down the entire game. They played seriously and they didn't hop up after every play acting like they won the Super Bowl.

Good for them though. They still lost!

[SportsFanatic]

Originally Posted by Dirtbag359

Well for starters I was messing around. However the 49ers are not your typical 0-4 team. Lots of bad luck and mistakes are the result of the 0-now 5 start. They might be the most talented 0-5 team in the history of the league.

When you let Kevin Kolb run 19 yds on a 3rd and 18 you are a 0-4 team. Period

[skinsfan69]

Originally Posted by 12thMan

Talk about a deceiving stats; The Cowboys are 2nd in total offense, 8th in defense. Yet they're 1-3.

The Skins, on the other hand, are dead last in defense, right in the middle of the pack on offense and we're 3-2, tied for first in the division. Love it.

It's because they're the dumbest team in the NFL. Hands down.

[Takeuon]

Definitely an odd season in the making.

Seeing the Chargers lose like they did to the Raiders....I mean Wow!
Any team is capable of winning on any given Sunday this season.