Did anyone else see M. Lynch (1 Viewer)

[mad sweeney]

This is clearly his middle finger.

No it's not (hehe giggle giggle) Get real the index is in in the part of the coloring you can clearly see the green/black is where his index is... He is most def signalling the bird and I think it's funny. As to the poster up above who said you would get benched no matter how talented is clueless. Just saying.

I didn't want to get all CSI here, but this is a picture of the gloves he wore (Exhibit B). It very clear that the index finger is blue and that the midde finger is white (the one he is holding up in holding up in Exhibit A).

Case closed, your Honor.

Nice work, definitely the bird. Wonder why there aren't any stories about it. There's usually plenty of stories when a star player gets into it on the sidelines with an OC.

exactly you can see the index finger is the one that is colored blue/green and the middle finger was white... CASE CLOSED.

Thank you for repeating exactly what cstu showed. Anyone else's post you'd like to repeat?

 

[cstu]

Nice work, definitely the bird. Wonder why there aren't any stories about it. There's usually plenty of stories when a star player gets into it on the sidelines with an OC.

Don't take this the wrong way, but it's Seattle. Local writers don't seem to care and the east coast media have a hard time even locating Seattle on a map.

 

[mad sweeney]

Nice work, definitely the bird. Wonder why there aren't any stories about it. There's usually plenty of stories when a star player gets into it on the sidelines with an OC.

Don't take this the wrong way, but it's Seattle. Local writers don't seem to care and the east coast media have a hard time even locating Seattle on a map.

If this was a Sunday game buried in with 13 other games, then I could easily see it not surfacing. But it was the only Thursday game and Lynch is one of the best RBs in the game right now, and flipping the bird from the field is rare. Figured it'd get picked up somewhere.

 

[Johnny Blood]

About expected from a guy with his character.

Stay classy.

Keep on judging people you don't know. Stay classy.

DUI, hit and run, illegal firearms possession, drug possession and flipping off his boss. Pretty sure we all have a good grasp on what kind of a low life he is.

He was well known in Buffalo for sneaking liquor into bars and pouring drinks out of his own bottle. No joke.

 

[death of the cool]

I think these type of things happen a lot more than we realize....Lynch just made it very obvious to us. Players (not all) are selfish because they realize how much these types of calls affect salaries in negotiations. Say it happens 3 or 4 times this year and Lynch ends up with 8 or 9 TDs vs 12-13. If the game is close and undecided it's one thing....but in a game that is decided it is just the OC deciding who gets the stats

 

[Leonidas]

About expected from a guy with his character.

Stay classy.

Keep on judging people you don't know. Stay classy.

you mean convicted drunk drivers?

He hasn't been convicted.

No...he hasn't been convicted YET.

Not of that particular crime, anyway.

 

[Neofight]

This is clearly his middle finger.

No it's not (hehe giggle giggle) Get real the index is in in the part of the coloring you can clearly see the green/black is where his index is... He is most def signalling the bird and I think it's funny. As to the poster up above who said you would get benched no matter how talented is clueless. Just saying.

I didn't want to get all CSI here, but this is a picture of the gloves he wore (Exhibit B). It very clear that the index finger is blue and that the midde finger is white (the one he is holding up in holding up in Exhibit A).

Case closed, your Honor.

That image actually looks quite a bit different from the others I've seen linked. You sure that's not shopped? The one on Seahawks.net that was linked to earlier looks to be the index and middle finger (blue going up the length of the finger).

Personally, I thought it was funny when I saw the play on the DVR. The more I look at the actual play and compare these images though, the more it looks like a nonstory. He could've been pointing out that they would have two opportunities to punch it in for all we know.

 

[Sabertooth]

Love that guy

 

[Pip's Invitation]

Looks like we have two kinds of posters in this thread: people trolling, and people trolling the trolls.

 

[Dizzy]

Who cares? So he flipped someone the bird. Are you people all from Utah or something?

Sure. Its not going to fly in Utah, but everywhere else tough guys like you are flipping off their bosses when they piss them off. How many times has a player done something similar on the field towards a coach and it fell into the "who cares?" file? I'm going to go with never.

Like I said above, none of the beat writers have touched it, but its showing up in the comments section of every recent article or blog post. Its not going to just go away until it gets addressed.

Jump to conclusions much?

 

[Hooper31]

Who cares? So he flipped someone the bird. Are you people all from Utah or something?

Sure. Its not going to fly in Utah, but everywhere else tough guys like you are flipping off their bosses when they piss them off. How many times has a player done something similar on the field towards a coach and it fell into the "who cares?" file? I'm going to go with never.

Like I said above, none of the beat writers have touched it, but its showing up in the comments section of every recent article or blog post. Its not going to just go away until it gets addressed.

Jump to conclusions much?

My error. You're not a tough guy. You just act like one on the intergoogle.

 

[pizzatyme]

Tough to see him take them down the field and not get to punch it in.

 

[jvdesigns2002]

I think it's awesome that he did it. An offensive coordinator gets brownie points for any play on offense that gets the team a touchdown. A running back like Lynch gets contracts (makes a living) based on his numbers. While he is under contract until 2015-- if his numbers look great this year--it is possible they might try to extend him--or he could use his great numbers for the future negotiations of his next contract. Obviously--this is one play and his emotions may have been high--but I do hope the OC does realize that his play calling does impact his players futures to a certain extent. I don't see it being a problem--but if he continues to take td's away from lynch at the goal line---it could turn into something.

 

[zoonation]

Hey Scientist,

Who do you think is the best placeholder in the NFL? Maybe it's just me, but Jon Ryan really seems to get it down quicker than everyone else in the league.

 

[gandalas]

This is clearly his middle finger.

Clearly?

I hope it isn't, but I'm not so biased that I can't see it one way or the other.

No bias there at all. Zoom in on the picture, and you can clearly see his thumb and first finger both folded down.

 

[cstu]

This is clearly his middle finger.

Clearly?

I hope it isn't, but I'm not so biased that I can't see it one way or the other.

No bias there at all. Zoom in on the picture, and you can clearly see his thumb and first finger both folded down.

Ctrl + on a PC.

 

[mad sweeney]

I think it's awesome that he did it. An offensive coordinator gets brownie points for any play on offense that gets the team a touchdown. A running back like Lynch gets contracts (makes a living) based on his numbers. While he is under contract until 2015-- if his numbers look great this year--it is possible they might try to extend him--or he could use his great numbers for the future negotiations of his next contract. Obviously--this is one play and his emotions may have been high--but I do hope the OC does realize that his play calling does impact his players futures to a certain extent. I don't see it being a problem--but if he continues to take td's away from lynch at the goal line---it could turn into something.

Pretty sure anyone who's been an OC for longer than 1 or 2 minutes knows that player contracts are affected by stats.

 

[jvdesigns2002]

I think it's awesome that he did it. An offensive coordinator gets brownie points for any play on offense that gets the team a touchdown. A running back like Lynch gets contracts (makes a living) based on his numbers. While he is under contract until 2015-- if his numbers look great this year--it is possible they might try to extend him--or he could use his great numbers for the future negotiations of his next contract. Obviously--this is one play and his emotions may have been high--but I do hope the OC does realize that his play calling does impact his players futures to a certain extent. I don't see it being a problem--but if he continues to take td's away from lynch at the goal line---it could turn into something.

Pretty sure anyone who's been an OC for longer than 1 or 2 minutes knows that player contracts are affected by stats.

thats the point---this is why Marshawn has a reason to be upset. I haven't followed the seahawks super close this year--but has this OC vultured td's from Marshawn before this one?

 

[mad sweeney]

I think it's awesome that he did it. An offensive coordinator gets brownie points for any play on offense that gets the team a touchdown. A running back like Lynch gets contracts (makes a living) based on his numbers. While he is under contract until 2015-- if his numbers look great this year--it is possible they might try to extend him--or he could use his great numbers for the future negotiations of his next contract. Obviously--this is one play and his emotions may have been high--but I do hope the OC does realize that his play calling does impact his players futures to a certain extent. I don't see it being a problem--but if he continues to take td's away from lynch at the goal line---it could turn into something.

Pretty sure anyone who's been an OC for longer than 1 or 2 minutes knows that player contracts are affected by stats.

thats the point---this is why Marshawn has a reason to be upset. I haven't followed the seahawks super close this year--but has this OC vultured td's from Marshawn before this one?

I don't know if vultured is the right word, but his short yardage playcalling has been silly. Last week against the Titans they had 1st and goal at the 1 (a reception got them to the 1, not Lynch) and they ran a bootleg, lost 3. Then they gave it to Lynch who got back to the 1, so 3rd and goal from the 1, they run a bootleg again for nothing. I can't remember if that FG attempt was the botched one or not. Thursday night there were at least two other occasions when they should've been pounding away with Beast: with 4 minutes left inside their own 10, they call a pass play with a long-ish drop and RW gets fumblesacked. Earlier in the game there had been a 4th and inches that Wilson tried to sneak. Probably a lot more in the prior 5 games as well.

But none of that matters. At least not to the point I was making. Who knows what the relationship between Lynch and Bevell is. The OC's job is to move the offense and score points. His future contracts depend on it just as much as the players' contracts do. His job description isn't to pad the stats for his players' resumes. I happen to think in all those instances I mentioned that Lynch should've gotten the ball, and all but the one that drew the birdie were failures on the field. But even that doesn't matter to my point. It's incredibly naive, imo, to think that OCs don't know that stats matter to players. Btw, the player who gets the ball that "should've" gone to Lynch also has future contracts that are affected by stats. They don't need to be reminded. They've got ten other players on the field who also need stats for their next contract and he needs them for his own, no matter who scores.

 

[Johnny Blood]

I'm going to go out on a limb and say that if fantasy football nerds know he has been cheated 1 TD, so do at least enough GMs to start a bidding war to make up for it.

Of course more TDs correlates with more money. That doesn't determine Lynch's contract. NFL scouting departments know what we know.

 

[Dizzy]

Who cares? So he flipped someone the bird. Are you people all from Utah or something?

Sure. Its not going to fly in Utah, but everywhere else tough guys like you are flipping off their bosses when they piss them off. How many times has a player done something similar on the field towards a coach and it fell into the "who cares?" file? I'm going to go with never.

Like I said above, none of the beat writers have touched it, but its showing up in the comments section of every recent article or blog post. Its not going to just go away until it gets addressed.

Jump to conclusions much?

My error. You're not a tough guy. You just act like one on the intergoogle.

You've got a lot of issues, and a genuine ignorance of adult behavior.

I've been in board meetings, customer kick-off meetings, others where language was used that would make a dock worker blush. I've seen best friends give each other "the finger." All I'm saying is, not everything is as it appears on Glee.

Nothing to see here.

 

[Hooper31]

I've been in board meetings, customer kick-off meetings, others where language was used that would make a dock worker blush. I've seen best friends give each other "the finger." All I'm saying is, not everything is as it appears on Glee.

I don't disagree with you entirely, but you're working overtime to avoid the arena in which this happened. This was live on national TV in front of a giant audience. I'm about to go play golf with three good friends. We'll swear and give each other tons of crap and love every minute of it. Don't you think it would be a bit different if we were being broadcast live to millions of people? There's a time and place for that sort of action, and this wasn't it.

 

[The Claymaker]

I do not think its earth shattering or anything, but it is without question disrespectful, and I do not think a team should allow that from a player (Any player) to any coach, but it is probably something handled out of the media eye and I think that should be the end of it.

In my opinion it does make Lynch look very selfish and when your team is winning, that should be the most important thing, not worrying about padding your stats.

I see a lot of people get on Manning about that, but I guarantee you he would never give any coach the finger or be disrespectful because they called a run not a pass, disagreements between coaches and players happen all the time, but I think he went a little far with how he reacted and he made a public display of it.

 

[12punch]

I had to cover my son's eyes.

Outrageous

 

[CapnJB]

This is clearly his middle finger.

No it's not (hehe giggle giggle) Get real the index is in in the part of the coloring you can clearly see the green/black is where his index is... He is most def signalling the bird and I think it's funny. As to the poster up above who said you would get benched no matter how talented is clueless. Just saying.

I didn't want to get all CSI here, but this is a picture of the gloves he wore (Exhibit B). It very clear that the index finger is blue and that the midde finger is white (the one he is holding up in holding up in Exhibit A).

Case closed, your Honor.

Only the top is blue. The sides are white as seen in Here (Exhibit C) and Here (Exhibit D)

 

[cstu]

This is clearly his middle finger.

No it's not (hehe giggle giggle) Get real the index is in in the part of the coloring you can clearly see the green/black is where his index is... He is most def signalling the bird and I think it's funny. As to the poster up above who said you would get benched no matter how talented is clueless. Just saying.

I didn't want to get all CSI here, but this is a picture of the gloves he wore (Exhibit B). It very clear that the index finger is blue and that the midde finger is white (the one he is holding up in holding up in Exhibit A).

Case closed, your Honor.

Only the top is blue. The sides are white as seen in Here (Exhibit C) and Here (Exhibit D)

Exhibit A shows the top of the glove.

 

[cstu]

I do not think its earth shattering or anything, but it is without question disrespectful, and I do not think a team should allow that from a player (Any player) to any coach, but it is probably something handled out of the media eye and I think that should be the end of it.

In my opinion it does make Lynch look very selfish and when your team is winning, that should be the most important thing, not worrying about padding your stats.

I see a lot of people get on Manning about that, but I guarantee you he would never give any coach the finger or be disrespectful because they called a run not a pass, disagreements between coaches and players happen all the time, but I think he went a little far with how he reacted and he made a public display of it.

In Lynch's defense if he believes him getting the ball is the team's best chance of a TD then he is thinking about the team. He just thought it was insulting they didn't think he could punch it in.

 

[Dizzy]

I've been in board meetings, customer kick-off meetings, others where language was used that would make a dock worker blush. I've seen best friends give each other "the finger." All I'm saying is, not everything is as it appears on Glee.

I don't disagree with you entirely, but you're working overtime to avoid the arena in which this happened. This was live on national TV in front of a giant audience. I'm about to go play golf with three good friends. We'll swear and give each other tons of crap and love every minute of it. Don't you think it would be a bit different if we were being broadcast live to millions of people? There's a time and place for that sort of action, and this wasn't it.

It's a live broadcast with warrior mentalities in the heat of battle. These things are going to happen. These things have happened. You don't have to be an FBI-caliper lip reader to see what these guys are yelling on the sidelines sometimes. In fact, they seem to go out of their way on MNF to show this stuff and the announcers make light of it. No bigger broadcast stage than that.

Parabolic mic's pick up stuff all the time that makes it on to the air waves. I think all the profanity, gestures, fights, etc. are just an accepted parts of the game... a calculated risk on the part of the networks.

 

[mad sweeney]

I had to cover my son's eyes.

Outrageous

Do you watch the game on mute as well so he doesn't hear all the f-bombs from the field audio?

 

[Hooper31]

It's a live broadcast with warrior mentalities in the heat of battle. These things are going to happen. These things have happened. You don't have to be an FBI-caliper lip reader to see what these guys are yelling on the sidelines sometimes. In fact, they seem to go out of their way on MNF to show this stuff and the announcers make light of it. No bigger broadcast stage than that.

Parabolic mic's pick up stuff all the time that makes it on to the air waves. I think all the profanity, gestures, fights, etc. are just an accepted parts of the game... a calculated risk on the part of the networks.

I get the impression we're talking largely about different things. Do I care about the finger being on TV? Not really. Do I care about a player on my favorite team displaying a mountain of disrespect to a coach because he's being selfish? Damn skippy. When I say there's a time and place for this, there really is a time and place. Its behind closed doors in private away from his teammates.

 

[cstu]

It's a live broadcast with warrior mentalities in the heat of battle. These things are going to happen. These things have happened. You don't have to be an FBI-caliper lip reader to see what these guys are yelling on the sidelines sometimes. In fact, they seem to go out of their way on MNF to show this stuff and the announcers make light of it. No bigger broadcast stage than that.

Parabolic mic's pick up stuff all the time that makes it on to the air waves. I think all the profanity, gestures, fights, etc. are just an accepted parts of the game... a calculated risk on the part of the networks.

I get the impression we're talking largely about different things. Do I care about the finger being on TV? Not really. Do I care about a player on my favorite team displaying a mountain of disrespect to a coach because he's being selfish? Damn skippy. When I say there's a time and place for this, there really is a time and place. Its behind closed doors in private away from his teammates.

I agree with you but when you have a player named BEAST MODE this is part of the package.

 

[Cliff Clavin]

I've seen best friends give each other "the finger."

Good god man. You've seen some ####! PTSD?

 

[Dizzy]

I've seen best friends give each other "the finger."

Good god man. You've seen some ####! PTSD?

OK, I can see where that may have been mis-leading.

 

[Steed]

Did Bevell dole out some retribution?

 

[donkshow]

Must have. No other reason to avoid using Lynch like that against a bad run D.

 

[Widbil83]

Something weird happened here. Mysteriously putting Turbin in for most of 1st quarter, Lynch's body language on the sideline and passing it 3 times from the 1yd line in a clear running situation with him in.

 

[Dizzy]

Did Bevell dole out some retribution?

If that's the case, then it should cost him his job. Because it almost cost them a game IN THE DIVISION, with potential to derail everything they're trying to accomplish. I would hope it was just a case of out-thinking himself and lucky to come away with the TD on 3rd & G.

 

[Touchdown There]

Did Bevell dole out some retribution?

If that's the case, then it should cost him his job. Because it almost cost them a game IN THE DIVISION, with potential to derail everything they're trying to accomplish. I would hope it was just a case of out-thinking himself and lucky to come away with the TD on 3rd & G.

Except that he made his point and they still won. No one loses their job for winning and the rest is unspoken.

 

[cstu]

Bet he doesn't finger the OC again.

 

[mad sweeney]

Must have. No other reason to avoid using Lynch like that against a bad run D.

Not sure about that because there's been a number of times inside the 2 yard line all season long where he's not given it to Lynch. I freaking hate him as an OC.

 

[Sabertooth]

In a game where Wilson was taking a beating, Bevell was using him on two failed naked boots. What a moron. I always had to chuckle at Bevell complaining to Favre:

DB: "Being an offensive coordinator is haaaaaard."

BF: "You should try playing quarterback."

DB: