Recent content by gusmahler

Interesting conversation. I posted about a similar situation in my league. However, in my league, the guy was only threatening to take out Ridley (which would give him a loss and eliminate one guy from the playoffs). He hasn't actually done it and probably won't do it. (He may have been joking...

Either you're blind enough to be a replacement ref or you're not looking at the same play. Eli got his knee down and the center was pushed into him, forcing Eli to fall down. He was not "backing out".

This is literally the stupidest thing in this thread. If he didn't get knocked backwards, why did he fall backwards?http://cjzero.com/gifs/EliVFormation.gif

That article is wrong. It clearly was not a victory formation and was not a kneel down play. They were lined up in an offset I formation. You don't kneel the ball from that formation.

In the victory formation, the offensive team doesn't expect to be hit full force. They line up, the center snaps the ball, the rest of the team stands up. Yesterday, the center snapped the ball, the rest of the team stood up . . . and the Bucs came in full force.

Did you even watch the video? That wasn't a victory formation. Rivers wasn't attempting to kneel. Rivers didn't give himself up.Victory Formation:http://i.imgur.com/gvgC4.pngNot a victory formation:http://i.imgur.com/JKbQs.png

That's not even close to this situation. That was an actual play, not a victory formation.

You're missing my point. The NFL would be taking a different position if one of the O-lineman rolled into a marquee QB's knees, causing to lose significant parts of the season.

It has everything to do with this. 1) It makes any claim that he doesn't know how the NFL treats kneel downs a lie. 2) It shows that he's willing to take the benefits of kneeling down but is not willing to give the benefit of the kneel down when it's his team that is losing. 3) It guarantees...

Guess which team kneeled down 3 times in week 1 to end the game, despite being only one possession ahead? That's right, the Tampa Bay Bucs. Anyone saying that Schiano doesn't know how kneel downs are done in the NFL is full of it. Coughlin was 100% correct here. A lineman easily could have...

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