Shutting down Henry was the key today. He’s run roughshod over them for years now, but today they didn’t let him.
Andre Ware on the radio broadcast, seconds after the game winner (paraphrasing): “Put those uniforms away. Tear them off! Put them back in the trunk!”
I’m a huge Keenum fan but holy crap the contrast between his arm and Stroud’s is alarming. He has really lost a lot of zip on the ball. A win is a win.
I had long since moved to California by the time the Oilers skedaddled so I have had no NFL team since. I am, however, very gruntled by this Texan win. How fucking DARE they don the Columbia blue and scarlet?
Way to go, Texans!
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Not Texans, but jeez, Jacksonville may be the stupidest team in the history of the NFL.
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That last play of the half was awful. It made Bobby Slowik proud.
I care very little about the NFL. After 1995, there wasn’t much of a reason. Seeing the Oilers uniforms on tv again, fuck. Kara and my friends couldn’t understand why I was so angry and sad.
I know it’ll never happen, but I still hope one day the Oilers come back to Houston.
Goddamnit, I hate the Adams family.
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I had a visceral reaction seeing the tennessee flaming thumb-tacks wearing the Houston Oilers unis and helmets and it cut me to my core.
It was like having a dead person come back to life and reinvigorated my intense disdain, vitriol and hatred for bud fucking adams and his smelly pirate hooker daughter.
This was an intentional and lowbrow stunt and while I couldn’t care less about the Texans as the Oilers were, and will always be my team, I was a huge Texans fan today.
I will continually hope for the failure and demise of the tennessee flaming thumb-tacks and the adams family.
Luv ya Blue.
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Can I get some background on this? I’ve been watching football the past couple weekends and today (and yesterday) the hypersensitive false-starts have been really awkward.
During the Chiefs game, there was a winning TD (and a fantastic play) called back by a KC receiver who lined up a bit over the line of scrimmage. A big stink around the league ensued over the call (though it was pretty legit as he was offsides a bit, though it’s rarely called). They called it on a Texans player during this week’s game, but it wasn’t legit at all.
HH is saying that they’re calling it more this week to justify the call last week.
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Thank you.
Is this a reasonable supposition? I’m just trying to gauge where the NFL and NFL refereeing falls on the “rigged” spectrum.
Seems reasonable to me. I don’t think they’re rigged against (or for) any team per se, but they’re certainly averse to criticism and their calls this week are a weird way to address that criticism.
As an aside, I always find NFL officials weird on replays. Much more so than college, they seem really averse to overturning obvious mistakes on replay. Like they can’t admit they might be wrong.
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Chris Berman is…still? Color me amazed!
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I agree, but the center’s placement of the football at any moment in time is not the line of scrimmage. They’re constantly moving it from where it was placed, and who the fuck knows if the official placed it equal to the marker. Point being, there is a lot of uncertainty in the entire undertaking, and I assume that’s why there’s a lot of leeway amongst the officials and the players.
While I agree he was offsides, if it wasn’t called I doubt there would have been a stink about the non-call.
To reconcile your argument, you’d have to convince us that both Toney and the right tackle are on the line of scrimmage. Go.
Offsides is like porn: you know it when you see it.