man what a game..
Ravens
Why throw to the endzone, Joe? Why?
Shemp wrote:
Why throw to the endzone, Joe? Why?
yeah I was going to say I thought that cost the Ravens the game but didn't want to as I'm not a Ravens fan although I respect the heck out of them.. I thought that was a huge mistake..they were marching down the field with ease… the Ravens OL was completely controlling the the Pats DL giving him plenty of time…they should have just gone with short high percentage passes…maybe a run or two..I think they would have gotten the TD and the Pats would barely have had time to come back… even more to the point by going for it with so much time on the clock you were giving the Pats enough time to come back even if you scored..it seemed like a boneheaded call all around……
I don't know if Joe called it or it was a designed play or what..but I kind of feel the better team did not win….they just didn't make the critical error….. Belichick was only sending 4 Defensive Linesmen at Flacco therefore therefore he has so much time to make throws…
Belichick was daring Flacco to make that throw…because he had so many defensive backs out there but they were covering more for the big play….
What he said.
Thank goodness White America. The thugs lost.
Baltimored.
Ravens were the better team, Belichick was the better coach.
also it will be interesting if there is a rule change next year about running to snap the ball as soon as declaring ineligible
brady should have been flagged for getting in the refs face
also it will be interesting if there is a rule change next year about running to snap the ball as soon as declaring ineligible
brady should have been flagged for getting in the refs face
Got wrote:
Ravens were the better team, Belichick was the better coach.
+1
Carlos wrote:Got wrote:
Ravens were the better team, Belichick was the better coach.
+1
Hey - howcum nobody's talking about Belichick the Brilliant's premature kneeling at the end of the game, which gave the Ravens a chance to win with a Hail Mary pass? Huh? Huh?
Shemp wrote:Carlos wrote:Got wrote:
Ravens were the better team, Belichick was the better coach.
+1
Hey - howcum nobody's talking about Belichick the Brilliant's premature kneeling at the end of the game, which gave the Ravens a chance to win with a Hail Mary pass? Huh? Huh?
everyone makes mistakes?
the details are now foggy, but i thought it had more to do with the fact that the ravens held on to their last time-out. instead of burning it after 1st down, they waited until the pats burned their 3rd, forcing the kick. i don't recall them kneeling too soon. they have a team of people calculating that stuff. pretty sure that if they could have killed the clock, they would have.
That turnover made the game.
sweetcell wrote:
the details are now foggy, but i thought it had more to do with the fact that the ravens held on to their last time-out. instead of burning it after 1st down, they waited until the pats burned their 3rd, forcing the kick. i don't recall them kneeling too soon. they have a team of people calculating that stuff. pretty sure that if they could have killed the clock, they would have.
The sequence of plays.. when they took over the ball there was a time out due to change of possession.
New England Patriots at 01:39
1-10-NE 20(1:39) 12-T.Brady kneels to NE 18 for -2 yards.
2-12-NE 18( .57) 12-T.Brady kneels to NE 16 for -2 yards.
3-14-NE 16( .15) 12-T.Brady kneels to NE 15 for -1 yards.
I guess they didn't want to risk a fumble, but running a legitimate play would kill more clock. And they might have even picked up a first down. But I suppose running plays weren't part of the gameplan at all.
If your big argument against Belicheck's strategy is that on their own 16 they ran victory form facing 3rd and 14 instead of attempting to pick up the first down or run some hypothetical play that would take 15 seconds, then holy shit. It's is unarguably the play that gives you the smallest chance of losing.
Shemp wrote:
The sequence of plays.. when they took over the ball there was a time out due to change of possession.
New England Patriots at 01:39
1-10-NE 20(1:39) 12-T.Brady kneels to NE 18 for -2 yards.
2-12-NE 18( .57) 12-T.Brady kneels to NE 16 for -2 yards.
3-14-NE 16( .15) 12-T.Brady kneels to NE 15 for -1 yards.
I guess they didn't want to risk a fumble, but running a legitimate play would kill more clock. And they might have even picked up a first down. But I suppose running plays weren't part of the gameplan at all.
1st down: 43 seconds
2nd down: 42 second
3rd down: ravens called TO, stopping the clock.
so, if my math is right, the answer to your question:
Shemp wrote:
Hey - howcum nobody's talking about Belichick the Brilliant's premature kneeling at the end of the game, which gave the Ravens a chance to win with a Hail Mary pass? Huh? Huh?
it's because there was no premature kneeling. belichick's brilliance is untarnished.
Shemp wrote:
But I suppose running plays weren't part of the gameplan at all.
they were originally part of the plan but that ridiculous ravens run defense took it out of the pat's playbook pretty quickly. talk about a brick wall. the patriots got 14 yards on the ground for the entire frikken game.
ggw wrote:
Great player ≠ good commentator.
Ray Lewis: We only know who Tom Brady is because of the tuck rule
Kubiak pulling an end-around. Kyle Shanahan coming back east?
Julian, wrote:Katie's long, reading incomprehension-fueled, nightmare is over.K8teebug wrote:Come on, you're better at reading comprehension than this. "The NFL" – again, the untaxed league office – will not reach 25 billion in revenues. The 32 teams, when added together, may reach $25 billion in revenues. And those 32 teams all pay taxes at the same rate as anyone else. The ONLY thing tax exempt is the league office.Julian, wrote:K8teebug wrote:The thing you're not getting is "the NFL" doesn't make a lot of money. The 32 pro football teams that are represented by "the NFL" – all of whom pay taxes individually – make a lot of money.
Yes, those other organizations have the same exempt status. My guess is the NFL makes more than all of them combined.
When you're talking about "the NFL" that does not pay taxes, you're not talking about the teams; it is the league office, basically. Any money that comes into the league office is used to promote the industry of football – basically the business of its 32 tax-paying member teams. The $9billion TV contract people hear about: "the NFL" doesn't get that, the 32 teams do and pay taxes on it.
This is exactly the same as a Chamber of Commerce taking in some money and using it to put out a cool brochure about local businesses. All the money coming into the CoC is used to promote a local industry, the members of which will then pay taxes on their increased business. It makes no sense to tax the CoC because it is not a for-profit entity. Similarly, "the NFL" head office is not - in and of itself - a for-profit entity. It exists to hope to maximize profits for its industry (the 32 teams) all of whom pay taxes.
And the amount of money "the NFL" has that it doesn't pay taxes on is by one recent estimate, less than $10million. Which is dwarfed by thousands of other non-profits.
Seriously, under what rock do you live under that you thinkg "THE NFL" doesn't make any money?
http://www.forbes.com/sites/monteburke/2013/08/17/how-the-national-football-league-can-reach-25-billion-in-annual-revenues/
All that TV money and tickets sales and merchandise sales… that doesn't go to "the NFL," it is split up between the 32 tax paying corporations "the NFL" represents.
http://www.bloomberg.com/politics/articles/2015-04-28/nfl-will-end-its-tax-exempt-status-goodell-tells-team-owners