Let me just say I am a niners fan before I make my post and I like to consider myself fairly unbiased
I cannot believe the no call at the end of hte game. That was one of the most obvious holds I have ever seen. You can freeze frame it and laugh as the balls in the air while crabtree is getting held. I think anyone who says "the refs can't make that call in that situation" is full of bs
Ed Reed was definitely offsides on the 2pt conversion. James fumble looks like it should have been forward progress and not a fumble. On the replay you can see three niners just standing there like the play was over.
However, giving up jacoby jones 51 yard bomb and 108 yard kick off return was inexcusable.
Bah i am probably just bitter but fuckkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkk
And wtf, the giants/patriots superbowl (2007) was awful to watch. Does anyone remember anything about that game besides the last 5 minutes? It was atrocious. I have no idea why everyone remembers it with such glee.
I've seen this happen time and time again in the playoffs. A team doesn't take advantage of the fact that they are in a 4 down situation and use that to their advantage by RUNNING the ball.
In a 4 down situation, with 2nd and goal from the 5 yard line you RUN and pick up SOMETHING. And then you RUN on 3rd and PICK UP something again. Finally RUN or pass on 4th down from Somewhere closer than 5 yards. You give yourself options.. by throwing 3 times you are forced with nothing but to throw on 4th.
My grandmother could get 5 yards w/ 3 downs. They already got 3 from 1st down by running (1st and goal from 8). But the NFL is in this "quarterback" is everything mentality for the last decade. Everything is about quarterback. Heismann trophy.. blah blah blah. Quarterbacks are great for marching down the field w/ big gains. Running backs excel in short gains. Even running QB would have worked 3 downs. Kabernick/Gore run 3 time from 5 yard line = AUTO WIN. gg
Kabernick's strengths were not utilized @ 2nd and goal from the 5. Offensive co-ordinator for 49'ers final possession = MVP for Baltimore. SF lost this game more than Baltimore won it.
That was some pandering bullshit right there. God + Family + Manifest Destiny garbage. Most preposterous thing ever when you consider 95% of farms are government subsidized huge corporations and immigrants are the laborers.
I was like....will this commercial ever end?? It was actually garbage
My favorites were the budweiser horse one in Chicago and the Deion Sanders one where he goes to the NFL combine and gets drafted number 1.
I was waiting for some joke at the end of that one. I couldn't believe it was serious. It seemed longer than the average spot, too. Felt like a double spot. Then again, it's not really that far off what we normally get with pickup truck commercials. Rural farmer bullshit is kinda normal for Chrysler.
Ads were lacking in effective humor this year. There were probably only 3-4 that amused me. Seemed like there was a lot of CBS promos and local station commercials as well. Did they not sell out or did CBS just want to use a lot of them? I don't think having that many commercials advertising the same shows is a good use of airtime.
CBS is trying to maintain their advantage as the leading network, hence pushing their shows and news stuff.
Most of the ads were fairly middling this year, which is probably why the Ram one stuck out so much. However, it was standard culture war bullshit, but at least it had a positive spin since it was pandering to the people who buy trucks in the first place. Which is to say, people who probably don't need them to do any work, but drive them anyway because they like the idea that they might have to at some point, as if they need to be on call to haul around a bed full of hay or a horse trailer when the most intensive thing they do with a vehicle is pick up groceries.
It was a little dishonest about the portrayal of the modern farmer too, but hey, that's advertising. I'm here to watch football.
On February 04 2013 12:45 kiy0 wrote: Like it or not, the officials made two very questionable calls that had a huge impact in the game. This is sad...
I agree that their conscious decision to turn off the lights was questionable, but I can't imagine anybody had a problem with Beyonce.
Uh what? This was one of the best reffed games in terms of them letting players play the fucking game instead of calling every little thing.
The best way to referee is to not do their job?
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Trent Dilfer, elite quarterback
Any game with fighting the reffing isn't working part of their job is to control that.
I swear someone with big money riding in the 49ers or the NFL brass paid off someone to throw the lights to stall the Ravens' momentum . . . that was total BS. Ravens SB champions, baby!!
I am curious about the clock, while I doubt it had any effect on the game at all I noticed it and was a bit put off. Shortly after the power outage when play resumed, I think it was Kaepernick ran the ball out of bounds and the clock didnt stop (I believe it was that play). It may have happened other times, but I just happened to notice it then.
Do they account for errors like that later in the game?
On February 04 2013 14:13 TheRabidDeer wrote: I am curious about the clock, while I doubt it had any effect on the game at all I noticed it and was a bit put off. Shortly after the power outage when play resumed, I think it was Kaepernick ran the ball out of bounds and the clock didnt stop (I believe it was that play). It may have happened other times, but I just happened to notice it then.
Do they account for errors like that later in the game?
The clock only stays stopped after an out of bounds play when there's 5:00 left in a half or less, or something like that.
Also a weird little exploit in the rules showed up: on that intentional safety, the Ravens were holding like crazy in the endzone to buy more time, but the penalty for that is simply a safety when the play is over. So they gained the benefit from holding with no penalty (even if they made the call correctly).
On February 04 2013 14:13 TheRabidDeer wrote: I am curious about the clock, while I doubt it had any effect on the game at all I noticed it and was a bit put off. Shortly after the power outage when play resumed, I think it was Kaepernick ran the ball out of bounds and the clock didnt stop (I believe it was that play). It may have happened other times, but I just happened to notice it then.
Do they account for errors like that later in the game?
It isn't supposed to stop in the third quarter. Perfectly normal.
On February 04 2013 14:13 TheRabidDeer wrote: I am curious about the clock, while I doubt it had any effect on the game at all I noticed it and was a bit put off. Shortly after the power outage when play resumed, I think it was Kaepernick ran the ball out of bounds and the clock didnt stop (I believe it was that play). It may have happened other times, but I just happened to notice it then.
Do they account for errors like that later in the game?
The clock only stays stopped after an out of bounds play when there's 5:00 left in a half or something like that.
It stops until they reset the ball. Unlike if you get tackled in bounds where it continously ticks.
ya early 1990's they changed the way the clock is used for out-of-bounds during normal play to speed up game. Clock used to stop anytime play went out of bounds.
Should change that back for post season games imho.
@ lights out to stall raven's momentum? lol.. they seemed pretty flat 2nd half other than the ko return.
On February 04 2013 14:01 Ducci wrote: Let me just say I am a niners fan before I make my post and I like to consider myself fairly unbiased
I cannot believe the no call at the end of hte game. That was one of the most obvious holds I have ever seen. You can freeze frame it and laugh as the balls in the air while crabtree is getting held. I think anyone who says "the refs can't make that call in that situation" is full of bs
Ed Reed was definitely offsides on the 2pt conversion. James fumble looks like it should have been forward progress and not a fumble. On the replay you can see three niners just standing there like the play was over.
However, giving up jacoby jones 51 yard bomb and 108 yard kick off return was inexcusable.
Bah i am probably just bitter but fuckkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkk
And wtf, the giants/patriots superbowl (2007) was awful to watch. Does anyone remember anything about that game besides the last 5 minutes? It was atrocious. I have no idea why everyone remembers it with such glee.
Yeah that should have been a holding call but we got away with a couple of no-calls as well. The point is that we should have won. Why run 3 passing plays on the 5 yard line I will never understand. And losing that timeout because Kap couldn't get the play off is also inexcusable. Just imagine what we could have done with 47 seconds. It's frustrating but there's always next year.
Ya Kaep is great at hitting powerful short passes, but in a short goal line situation, it requires lobbing a lot of the times. That comes w/ experience like a Brady or Manning etc. Having Kaep try to squeeze a TD pass from 5 yard line is not taking advantage of the situation.
@ next year. Said that LAST year when the Giants beat us in the NFC championship game. On the ONLY rainy day in the bay area in January last year. Oh well at least we dominated the World Series right!
On February 04 2013 14:39 Bajadulce wrote: Ya Kaep is great at hitting powerful short passes, but in a short goal line situation, it requires lobbing a lot of the times. That comes w/ experience like a Brady or Manning etc. Having Kaep try to squeeze a TD pass from 5 yard line is not taking advantage of the situation.
@ next year. Said that LAST year when the Giants beat us in the NFC championship game. On the ONLY rainy day in the bay area in January last year. Oh well at least we dominated the World Series right!
Yeah, only if we got this SuperBowl and Golden State and Sharks win the other 2 sports. Good dream for Bay Area lol
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