NFL 2014-2015 Season Discussion

Cowboys look great. In other news, the Blue Moon seasonal sampler is quite good. I'll probably finish the case by the end of this game. Jesus Christ Romo.

 

Yeah. I'm afraid to go check how I did today on upickem.net.

 

Eh. Pats overrated.

Again.

 

What a great second half from the 'Phins. Heard a lot of noise about good the Pats D would be this year and how teribble the Knowshon Moreno signing was. Well for at least one game all is right in the world. Go Phins!

 

Fucking Bears! If they'd gone for the 1 yard on 2nd & 1 and/or 3rd & 1 with under 2 minutes left, they might have scored the go-ahead TD.

No, they go for broke both plays and end up with a tying FG and then lose in OT. Forte was on a tear at that point and could easily have gotten 1 yard. And they still had all their timouts left.

The turnovers didn't help of course.

 

I was rooting for the Rams, but that was pretty ugly. Now I have to listen to Vikings fans gloat all week. Hopefully New England will kick ass next week and end that.

I also hope the Packers regroup. Seattle's tough, but that was an ugly game as well.

 

After new video of Ray Rice knocking out his then fiancee surfaced this weekend, the Ravens cut him and the NFL has suspended him indefinitely.

Good riddance, but someone will take a chance on him when his suspension is up.

 

I don't know what is more brutal about that video: him punching his fiancee with such force that she is knocked unconscious or his casually dragging her body like a sack of trash out of the elevator. Yikes.

 

Good riddance to Rice, but I won't applaud Goodell and the Ravens for waiting to do the right thing until after the full video went public. They had this evidence months ago and failed to handle it properly then. They tried to cover this up to protect a star player on a marquee team. I hope the media takes them to task for this.

 

The "media" bears responsibility also. After all, they help transform flawed people into heroic figures they feel are worthy of our adulation.

 

Completely agree with this. I don't condone what Rice did--and I hope his suspension keeps him out of football for the foreseeable future--but both the Ravens and the NFL had the opportunity to punish Rice months ago and didn't do it. Why now is it suddenly so important for them to act?

Roger Goodell is an idiot, as he apparently doesn't have enough common sense to distinguish right from wrong unless someone else spells it out for him. However long he decides to keep Rice sidelined is precisely the amount of time he himself should refrain from acting as NFL commissioner, because he doesn't know what hell he's doing.

--Sran

 

I don't know the answer to that question, but I wonder about one thing: would it not have made sense for the league to ensure that it had every piece of video footage available before taking action against Rice? It seems to me that Goodell should have acquired every recording and viewed each one before handing down a suspension.

This situation reminds me of what happened at Rutgers last year.

--Sran

 

So, the Chiefs just went out there and took a big dump on the field. We have a very, very, tough schedule. And Derrick Johnson is out, possible his career over (or likely very damaged because those types of injuries are't easy to recover from) this is going to be a long, painful schedule. At least the Royals are looking good right now.

 

I'm sure most people would have been outraged, but Goodell's position as NFL Commissioner mandates that he base his decisions on what's best for the league--something that's difficult to without all the facts--as opposed to doing what's popular with the fans.

I will shed no tears for Ray Rice, but I hope Goodell learns how discipline players without making himself appear incompetent in the process.

--Sran

 

Good news today. Fuck Ray Rice.

 

Is this true? Did the NFL have the "elevator video" when they suspended him for 2 games?