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Because as you noted Taylor was out of the pocket with the ball still in his hands. That play they actually got right.

 

Sherman played to the whistle. The whistle was NOT blown so he kept going=no penalty.....Another obvious referee mistake. Players are taught to play until they here the whistle, which is on the referee.....I also heard the official was standing over center (the ball) until their were 5 seconds left on the clock. Which gave the Bills no time to kick the ball for a field goal and the kicker and center probably never looked at the clock. The QB is the one that is used to looking at the clock and kickers don't worry about the clock for the most part.....Another mistake by the officials....All in all, the officials blew the play in more ways than one......

 

As UD said, thats actually legal believe it or not Joe.......One thing about this season, we are learning more intricacies about the rules every week.....

 

Apparently you are correct and Sherman does that all the time and can do that as long as he doesn't hold or do it when the ball is in the air. Is this supposed to be to combat scramblers? weird rule honestly.

 

So if a QB leaves the pocket just knock the crap out of the WR and your good to go. That is a insane rule if that's the case. Maybe a lot of what we think is pass interference is actually covered under this rule.

 

Cheathawks?
http://www.12up.com/posts/4080117-m...footballs-from-seattle-last-night?a_aid=40677

 

Might be a possibility Gid? Thats 1 rule they should call a penalty on. Ridiculous! And their worried about players safety? Get knocked from behind when the play is nowhere near? Probably has to do with something about blocking an opponenet would be my guess...... *DONT_KNOW*

 

So who's getting suspended? *INLOVE*

 

That's what I mean by combat scramblers. it counts as shedding a block. I think that unless the receiver initiates a block or the QB passes the LOS then it should be interference.

 

I agree Joe.......But I don't want to get into some of the NFL's rules and they interpret them!

 

If this is the case then the Steelers need to start destroying WRs anytime that the QB leaves the pocket. They certainly can't cover them.

 

Mother nature. Four games.

 

Dean Blandino, NFL senior vice president of officiating, said on NFL Total Access Endgame after the game that the referees made two mistakes in the bizarre sequence just before halftime.

"It should have been unnecessary roughness," Blandino said about Seahawks cornerback Richard Sherman's hit on Bills kicker Dan Carpenter on a 53-yard field goal attempt. Sherman only was deemed offsides on the play.

"The referee didn't think that the contact was severe enough, he felt that players were coming together and he just didn't think it was a foul," Blandino said. "We looked at it, it is a foul."

On the ensuing field-goal attempt, the referees flagged the Bills for delay of game even though an official was over the ball with less than 10 seconds remaining on the game clock. Blandino said referees need to reset the game clock if they're handling the ball with fewer than 20 seconds left on it. (NFL.com)

 

Tony Romo continues to edge closer toward a potential return for the Dallas Cowboys.
Romo was a full participant in practice Wednesday for the first time since suffering his back injury, the team announced. Before practice, Cowboys coach Jason Garrett told reporters that the veteran quarterback would work with the scout team and do some individual drills, as well.

NFL Network Insider Ian Rapoport reported that if Romo makes it through the week of practice, he'll have completed his rehab, per a source informed of his progress. Being ready for Sunday's game against the Steelers is the target for his rehab completion, and he is on track, Rapoport added.

"We just have to see where he is," Garrett said before practice. "Tony's practiced four days over the last couple of weeks and has been involved in part of practices on each of those days. We'll do something similar with him today. He'll start in individuals and see how he does. He'll be working some scout-team reps like he did last week.

"We'll just take the situation day-by-day. We have a number of guys who are injured on the team, and that's what we do ... We will evaluate his situation day-by-day."

Dak Prescott will get all the work with the first-team offense.

The pecking order indicates that even if healthy the veteran likely won't be returning to the lineup this week versus the Pittsburgh Steelers. Quarterbacks working with the scout team -- as we saw with Alex Smith last week in Kansas City -- generally don't play on Sunday.
However, the path for Romo's return is escalating.

Romo getting healthy doesn't mean he'll vault back into the starting lineup. Owner Jerry Jones has repeatedly stated that the team will ride the hot hand. Prescott has led the Cowboys (7-1) to seven straight victories. When Romo is healthy, the decision to dress Romo as a backup or bench a stud rookie will fall on Garrett's shoulders. (NFL.com)
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I say ride the hot hand in Dak until the wheels fall off. I don't think they should or would replace a QB on a 7 game win streak... seems obvious.

 

They will. Much as the Dallas brass loves Romo, they're not pulling Dak from the starting lineup unless he starts floundering bigly.

 

Browns up, 7-3. First i've seen the Browns this season.

 

Browns had to use a timeout before the first play of the game


http://www.cbssports.com/nfl/news/look-browns-go-full-browns-call-timeout-before-first-play-of-game/

 

28-7, Ravens... It's over.

 

BALTIMORE (AP) ? Getting off to the worst start in franchise history is one thing.
Being historically bad on a grand scale is quite another, and the winless Cleveland Browns now have only six games left to avoid that kind of infamy.

Facing the team that once called Cleveland home, this Browns team stayed competitive for a half before falling 28-7 to the Baltimore Ravens on Thursday night.

That left the Browns at 0-10, their worst start to a season since Cleveland joined the NFL in 1950.

It can't get much worse than that, can it? Well, perhaps. Because the Browns are now staring at one of the most dubious set of numbers in NFL history: 0-16.

The 2008 Detroit Lions are the only team in NFL history that went winless over a 16-game schedule. And now the Browns are hot on their trail.