don't think aaron will be giving any discount double checks to goodell anytime soon :corn:
The way the NFL's replacement officials are performing lately, the only thing that's missing is an appearance by Cary Elwes.
Check that. The slapstick comedy actor has arrived on the scene.
"I'm watching the screen, the highlights in the locker room, and I turn around and there's Cary. He's right there watching it with me," Green Bay Packers QB Aaron Rodgers said Tuesday on his radio show on WAUK-AM Milwaukee. "That was fun to see him in there. I wish it'd been under different circumstances."
The circumstance, if you somehow don't know by now, was a stunned postgame locker room in which the Packers players were trying to figure out how the officials had ruled Seattle Seahawks WR Golden Tate secured the game-winning touchdown on the final play instead of giving Packers S M.D. Jennings the interception.
In its statement Tuesday, the NFL said it agreed with the decision not to overturn the touchdown on replay. However, it never said the initial call of a simultaneous catch was correct.
Translation: It wasn't.
Rodgers' comments Tuesday need no translation.
"Some stuff just needs to be said," Rodgers, who was more diplomatic during his postgame press conference, told the show's host, Jason Wilde. "First of all, I've got to do something that the NFL is not going to do: I have to apologize to the fans. Our sport is a multi-billion dollar machine, generated by people who pay good money to come watch us play. The product on the field is not being complemented by an appropriate set of officials. The games are getting out of control."
He continued: "My thing is I just feel bad for the fans. They pay good money to watch this. The game is being tarnished by an NFL that obviously cares more about saving some money than having the integrity of the game diminished a little bit."
Rodgers read the NFL's statement in a sarcastic tone and noted how it read "the officials determined both Tate and Jennings had possession of the ball" when the players hit the ground.
"I call bull on that because they say 'officials,' " Rodgers said. "No, there was zero communication between them, there was zero communication between the guy who was responsible for the phantom first-and-25 pass interference call on (Packers cornerback) Sam Shields and the other referee who was responsible for calling a offsetting personal foul against (Packers receiver) Greg Jennings for a one-handed pushing of (Seahawks cornerback) Brandon Browner, who'd just punched him and thrown him to the ground.
"Those two guys have zero communication, zero eye contact. One of them is signaling over his head, meaning the clock's stopped, game's over, I'm about to signal touchback. And the other, from who knows what angle as he's looking at M.D. on top of Golden Tate, and he's going to say that's a catch by the receiver while M.D. has the ball to his chest, which is usually the association with simultaneous possession rule: Who has the ball on their chest first?"
Rodgers was irate.
"That's garbage, obviously," he said.
Of the lack of a replay reversal and the NFL's saying there wasn't conclusive video evidence, Rodgers read the explanation and said, "They're still covering their butt here. ... I mean, come on. That's embarrassing."
Though it took Rodgers a half-day to start firing at the NFL and the officials, some of his teammates wasted no time posting venomous tweets about the outcome of the game. Rodgers also said a few of the officials went into the Packers locker room to pull out players for the meaningless extra point and "got kind of a rude welcome."
Rodgers also wasn't pleased about the crowd on the field that included Yahoo! Sports NFL writer Mike Silver walking up and asking Rodgers what had just happened.
"How did all those people get on the field? It was a mob scene over there," Rodgers said, adding, "No idea how Mike Silver's on the field, but Mike's there and we're both in disbelief of what's going on. I never ..."
After trailing off, he concluded, "It's unbelievable. It was chaos."
Rodgers saw the tweets from his teammates and said the emotion that fueled them is reason he doesn't post on his account during the season.
"We put so much into this, we put our bodies and livelihood on the line, and you can't possibly tell me the way things are going right now that player safety is being held to the same standard it was and the integrity of the game isn't what it (should be)," he said. "We put a lot in this. We put our reputations in this, we put our livelihood, our families are invested in this, and it's frustrating."
Much as he wanted to move on, Rodgers is already looking at what the impact could be down the line for the 1-2 Packers.
"If we have to get in a situation where we make the playoffs but we're a (No. 5) or (No. 6) seed and this game makes a difference in home-field advantage, you might just say, 'Well, you (won the Super Bowl) a couple of years ago as a No. 6 seed,' and that's fine. But football is so much bigger than what happens on the field. It affects a lot of areas of life," Rodgers said. "I'm talking about the economic impact that happens in Green Bay. If we don't get to host a game, you're talking about a lot of money that's not going to come into this city. And when you start thinking about it in those terms, it affects economies of different areas.
"To have a game like that when the officials take away a win like that can directly affect certain communities ... especially in Green Bay where you have such a tight-knit bond between community and team, and obviously the local businesses and hotels rely on us having home games." http://content.usatoday.com/communities ... GIdZ65P-gl
Wow...I'm surprised and happy that Rodgers said what he did. Shows that he's angry...and he always plays better when he's angry. He, and every other NFL player and fan, should be angry. And they should speak out. What happened yesterday is atrocious and the fact that nothing is going to change is even worse. Maybe if enough people do speak up, something will change. Until then, the NFL is going to rake in their billions and laugh the whole way. I love the point he made about the economies as well, they were talking about the same thing on TMJ this morning. Having home field advantage could bring in some serious money for Green Bay (of course pending the Packers make it into the playoffs), and this could blow that chance.
Yes, I'm still ranting about this. This is a game that I'm going to bitch about until the day I die!
I hope they fuel this anger against the Saints on Sunday.
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Anyone else seeing the entire Packers team being fined? I don't blame them. They were robbed of a win last night.
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The issue is, although the replacement refs are terrible, I'm certainly watching football this Sunday, and couldn't be more excited to see an NFL game for the first time since the KingDome.
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Supposedly a deal with the NFL refs is imminent according to Schefter and Mortensen and they are trying to get the real refs back by this weekend.
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I agree there should be a fine and I think a penalty should've been called on the play. I just wonder how long it will be before a defensive player has to make a split second decision and gets seriously injured trying to keep a hard hit like that legal.
I think there's a difference between "dirty" and "illegal". I think dirty plays are premeditated attempts to injure someone. Like, diving at a QB's legs is dirty and illegal. But falling into a QB's legs is just illegal. I don't think Mundy is thinking "great, I can take this guy's head off right here." That would be dirty. It's just a bang-bang kind of reaction play and he hit him in the head. Totally illegal. But no necessarily dirty.
I think there's a difference between "dirty" and "illegal". I think dirty plays are premeditated attempts to injure someone. Like, diving at a QB's legs is dirty and illegal. But falling into a QB's legs is just illegal. I don't think Mundy is thinking "great, I can take this guy's head off right here." That would be dirty. It's just a bang-bang kind of reaction play and he hit him in the head. Totally illegal. But no necessarily dirty.
I agree. It was a bang/bang play, unlike last year when James Harrison head-hunted Colt McCoy.
Didn't take long for "South Park" to make fun of the NFL and the replacement refs.
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it's pretty funny and it gets us closer to another page so stupid jay cutler gifs don't slow my computer down to a halt. not that i dislike jay cutler, in fact, if i could be anyone in the NFL it's him.
it's pretty funny and it gets us closer to another page so stupid jay cutler gifs don't slow my computer down to a halt. not that i dislike jay cutler, in fact, if i could be anyone in the NFL it's him.
Well I have to say that i'm the guilty party of posting the GIFs. And while it doesn't slow down my sweet-ass computer, I'll reply here to try and get us to the next page as well.
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Yes, I'm still ranting about this. This is a game that I'm going to bitch about until the day I die!
I hope they fuel this anger against the Saints on Sunday.
"Becoming a Bruce fan is like hitting puberty as a musical fan. It's inevitable." - dcfaithful
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2010 - Noblesville
2011 - EV solo St Louis, PJ20 Alpine Valley
2012 - San Fran (Oracle)
2013 - Wrigley, Pittsburgh, Buffalo
2014 - Cincy, St Louis, Detroit
2016 - Lexington, Wrigley
2018 - Wrigley
2022 - Nashville, St Louis
2024 - Noblesville, Wrigley
Ha yeah, I'm sure they don't care!
Just saw that too. It's fucked up that it took a team getting fucked out of winning a game for a deal to happen.
http://m.espn.go.com/nfl/story?storyId=8428165
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And we're drowning.'
Tell me about it. Just glad that no other teams will have to go through this. Yes you read that correctly, I wouldn't even wish that upon the Bears!
guess it was dirty than.... :fp:
'This boats not safe
And we're drowning.'
I think there's a difference between "dirty" and "illegal". I think dirty plays are premeditated attempts to injure someone. Like, diving at a QB's legs is dirty and illegal. But falling into a QB's legs is just illegal. I don't think Mundy is thinking "great, I can take this guy's head off right here." That would be dirty. It's just a bang-bang kind of reaction play and he hit him in the head. Totally illegal. But no necessarily dirty.
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"Becoming a Bruce fan is like hitting puberty as a musical fan. It's inevitable." - dcfaithful
http://sports.yahoo.com/blogs/nfl-shutd ... --nfl.html
"Becoming a Bruce fan is like hitting puberty as a musical fan. It's inevitable." - dcfaithful
Pearl Jam bootlegs:
http://wegotshit.blogspot.com
Pearl Jam bootlegs:
http://wegotshit.blogspot.com
http://www.theonion.com/articles/dickhead-in-sanchez-jersey-turns-out-to-be-mark-sa,29389/
As usual, people analyze Cutler's every move on the sidelines. The media today is such a fucking joke.
i suggest people go read it.
I agree. What's to analyze? Just a schmuck being a schmuck.
Pearl Jam bootlegs:
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That's great. Man, I love the internet.
Pearl Jam bootlegs:
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Well I have to say that i'm the guilty party of posting the GIFs. And while it doesn't slow down my sweet-ass computer, I'll reply here to try and get us to the next page as well.
Pearl Jam bootlegs:
http://wegotshit.blogspot.com