dogwelder
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So here's a weird officiating 'quirk'. During Chiefs/Pats, there was a play where the Pats were called for illegal contact while Mahomes was called for intentional grounding, so the penalties offset. But couldn't it be conceivable that Mahomes had to intentionally ground the ball BECAUSE of the illegal contact? I guess it's just weird to me that the penalties would always be considered separate when there's always a chance of causation.
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And here's the fallout from last night.
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https://awfulannouncing.com/podcasts/dean-blandino-nfl-officials-sports-betting.html
QuoteDean Blandino, the former Vice President of Officiating (2013-17) for the NFL, recently commented on whether legalized sports gambling has affected the job of officials.
On the latest episode of the Awful Announcing podcast, he mentioned that although he couldn’t say that it has impacted their job, he acknowledged that it has increased scrutiny. Blandino explained that the NFL has strict protocols in place for officials, and even before they are hired, an NFL security representative goes door-to-door in their neighborhood to talk to their neighbors. This practice is still in place today.
“They look at all of your business associations. They look for conflicts of interest — all of that, bank accounts, everything,” Balndino told host Brandon Contes. “And there’s checks during the season. And so, they’ll look at if a game official has $10 in their bank account on Friday, and then they work a game, and now there’s $100,000; that’s a red flag, right? So, you’re checking those things. You’re monitoring the betting lines and looking at how calls impact those lines and are their individual officials that are involved in more of those calls. It’s a massive, massive undertaking. Because what the league doesn’t want and what we never wanted was a situation like what happened with the NBA, right?”
I dunno. Still sounds like a system that can be exploited to me.
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Tiebreaker #1: Josh Allen
Tiebreaker #2: 37
Tiebreaker #3: 348
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7 minutes ago, RIPPA said:
But yes - if this plan goes through - traffic will be even more of a shit show
And of course what everyone seems to not have noticed is that Metro is threatening "doomsday" service cuts if they don't get more money. So that would probably reduce the amount of people able to take public transportation to the arena.
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Yeah, the belief is that it's just Uncle Ted trying to get a better deal from DC because there's a good chance that the Dems in the VA General Assembly won't pass anything involving subsidizing a stadium.
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21 minutes ago, Brian Fowler said:
Toney was so clearly in the neutral zone that I can't imagine it not being called. If he checked with a ref and got the nod then then ref should be fired.
IIRC nothing happened to the ref who did the same thing to Terry McLaurin last year, though.
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Boo, Vikings kick a FG to break the 0-0 tie
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Wow, Ravens with a walkoff punt return TD
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And hey, no TFO for Kouji!
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ESPN is reporting it as 10 years $700 million
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I don't pay attention to the Steelers much, so how the fuck did Trubisky get ahead of Mason Rudolph on the depth chart? I remember Rudolph looking adequate filling in for Big Ben a couple of years or so ago.
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For anyone not watching the game tonight (and why would any sane person watch), here's Zeke doing a shoot shining wizard on TJ Watt:
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GoW Ragnarok roguelite DLC Valhalla
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New RPG called Exodus starring Matthew McConaughey
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Pittsburgh
New England at Pittsburgh
Sunday, December 10
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Tiebreaker #1: 72
Tiebreaker #2: 3
Tiebreaker #3: 148
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RIP Norman Lear at the age of 101
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You can't make this shit up.
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And speaking of which:
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1 minute ago, BobbyWhioux said:
surely a 25-25 Tie would be a scorigami if it stands?
Looks like it according to https://nflscorigami.com/
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At least Washington's not going to give up 70 to Miami.
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And that rushing TD is why Washington has to give Howell another year with hopefully a better O-line
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Can Miami secretly substitute Taulia for Tua to at least give Washington a chance?
NFL 2023 - WEEK FIFTEEN
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You know your team is bad when your best player gets hurt and its the punter