NFL - NEWS & NOTES

it's over 70,000 fans in the parking lots tailgating. how many philly cops should leave the city streets and watch over 70,000 in the parking lots bf an Eagles game ?? They do police them as they have cops on bicycles and horseback riding around the parking lots. It's just too many damn people vs the cops to ticket or arrest everyone.

 

it's over 70,000 fans in the parking lots tailgating. how many philly cops should leave the city streets and watch over 70,000 in the parking lots bf an Eagles game ?? They do police them as they have cops on bicycles and horseback riding around the parking lots. It's just too many damn people vs the cops to ticket or arrest everyone.

maybe in Cleveland. it's not like your team needs the stadium for anything like winning a game or even playing to win.

 

https://www.thesportster.com/football/top-15-nfl-teams-with-the-most-fan-arrests/

this list is from 2016. philly is 10. Cleveland is 11. pitt is 3, so you pitt guys got nerve bashing the philly fans.

- the Pitt fans...

 

The career of Bills center Eric Wood has come to an end as a result of a neck injury.

Wood’s injury, reported by Scout Fantasy and has been confirmed by several other outlets, will apparently force him to retire at the age of 31.

In 2017 Wood started all 16 regular-season games as well as the postseason loss to the Jaguars. There were no reports of him suffering a neck injury on the field and it’s unclear when and how he suffered this injury.

A 2009 first-round draft pick out of Louisville, Wood has played his entire career with the Bills. He was chosen to the Pro Bowl in 2015.

 

Barry Church fined $24,309 for hit on Gronkowski

Barry Church's hit that injured Rob Gronkowski during the AFC Championship Game has resulted in a fine.

The Jaguars safety was fined $24,309 for the hit that had the Patriots tight end exit the game with a concussion just before the half, NFL Network's Tom Pelissero reported.

Church was flagged for unnecessary roughness on the play. Gronkowski did not return in New England's 24-20 comeback victory.

The All-Pro tight end sat out practice this week. NFL Network Insider Ian Rapoport reported Tuesday that the Patriots are optimistic Gronk will clear concussion protocol before the Super Bowl, but it remains unclear when he might return to practice. Luckily, the Patriots have an additional week until they play the Philadelphia Eagles in Super Bowl LII.

 

Rob Gronkowski on the practice field, still in concussion protocol

Patriots tight end Rob Gronkowski is still not cleared to play from the league’s concussion protocol, but he took a step closer today.

Gronkowski is on the field for today’s Patriots practice. He previously had not been practicing.

Although Gronkowski isn’t a full participant yet, getting on the field now represents progress through the protocol, and his ability to take the practice field eight days before Super Bowl LII strongly suggests that he’ll be ready to go by game time.

Gronkowski suffered his concussion during the AFC Championship Game. Jaguars safety Barry Church was flagged and fined for the hit that knocked Gronkowski out of the game.
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Hope he can go... he's fun to watch play.

 

NFL to once again revisit catch rule

The perpetually unresolved question of what is and isn’t a catch in the NFL lingers. So will it be considered again this offseason?

“Has it ever not been?” Falcons president/CEO and Competition Committee chairman Rich McKay recently said on PFT Live.

“Will it be talked about?” McKay added. “Absolutely, because again every year we’re going to have six to eight plays as replay becomes more and more a part of our lives because, quite frankly, technology just gets better and better. Then all of a sudden the scrutiny applied to a play like that gets even higher. Yes, you need to go back and you need to make sure — our rules forever have been written for on-field officiating and trying to make sure that we put the officials in a place on the field where they can officiate and be consistent in their officiating.”

The problem arises in large part from the fact that the decisions made in real time by the officials on the field are now picked apart from multiple angles in super-slow motion.

“Sometimes, it gets a little inconsistent when you then begin to review them in replay at frame-by-frame in what looks like a simple decision by an on-field official,” McKay said. “It’s not quite so simple when it’s at full speed. I think we just need to make sure the way we look at it in replay and the way we’re telling the on-field official to officiate are consistent. Maybe that requires us to discuss the language, which we have many times before. I think Commissioner Goodell has done a great job in the last five years on this topic. I’ve been to New York twice where we’ve had a bunch of people including former receivers and former head coaches — just a bunch of different people that go in there and watch a series of plays and say, ‘OK, let’s talk ourselves through this rule and talk through do you want to change it do you like it do you not like it?’ We really haven’t done major changes to it. We’ve done a lot of tweaks to it. We’ll probably do that same process this year.”

When they do that same process this year, will they consider the PFT suggestion that the third element of the catch rule — whether the receiver had the ball long enough to clearly become a runner — should be exempt from replay review due to the subjective nature of the provision that kicks in after the player has the ball in his hands and gets two feet or another body part on the ground?

“I think it’s an interesting point,” McKay said, “and I think it’s one that merits discussion because what you’re saying is, ‘Let’s get out of replay in the quote ‘subjective element,’ because that’s a subjective element. We really didn’t design replay initially for subjective elements. It was designed for objective elements. It was designed for sidelines, end zone — it was lines of demarcation, objective elements not subjective. Your point’s a good one. I think we need to just look at it. Look at the plays and as you said earlier don’t overreact to it and tweak it in a way that is consistent realizing that the officials on the field do a really good job with this rule.”

Given that many of the issues with the catch rule this year came from the decision of the league office to use replay review to overturn rulings on the field based on the inherently subjective third element of the catch rule, maybe the right answer is simply to take replay review out of the portion of the catch/no catch decision that entails as much on-the-fly judgment as does other non-reviewable subjective rulings, like pass interference. (PFT)
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Long post, but I deemed it necessary to insure continuity.

 

Colts to name McDaniels coach after Super Bowl

Josh McDaniels is preparing to coach in what could be his last game as the offensive coordinator of the New England Patriots, as the Indianapolis Colts are reportedly on the verge of naming him their next head coach.
According to ESPN’s Adam Schefter, the Colts met with McDaniels on Friday and came to an agreement with the 41-year-old.

After Friday’s meeting, the Colts intend to hire Patriots’ OC Josh McDaniels as their HC after Super Bowl LII, per sources.

 

Patriots expected to lose OC to Colts, DC Matt Patricia to Lions, while respected special teams coordinator Joe Judge on expiring contract.

 

Rob Gronkowski, Deatrich Wise, Malcom Brown all at Patriots practice

 

Is tackling illegal in the pro bowl?

 

pretty much. Nobody was an injury at the Pro Bowl

 

Drew Brees' kids playing had more contact than the game.

 

didn't a rookie RB for NE blow out his knee in the touch football game in the sand at the Pro Bowl in Hawaii bf the real game ? Robert something...? Some players were playing touch football on the beach or something and he blew out his knee and was out of football a year or two later ? yeah - don't get hurt.

 

Even Roger Goodell can't explain the "catch rule". I can explain it in six words. Whatever benefits the Patriots the most. There. Simple.
https://www.yahoo.com/sports/even-roger-goodell-confused-nfls-catch-rule-221615796.html

 

I remember something like that happening.

http://www.complex.com/sports/2013/...uries-in-recent-sports-history/robert-edwards
Damn Cat, your memory is damn good. Robert Edwards, rookie RB for the Pats injured in the beach bowl the day before the Pro Bowl in 2013.

 

Goodell was a guest on Colin Cowherd’s FOX Sports Radio show and was asked if he’s somewhat concerned that fans watching games are confused about whether they see a catch or not.

“I’m not just somewhat concerned, I am concerned,” Goodell said. “We just had five Hall of Fame receivers and several coaches come in just two weeks ago to focus on the catch/no-catch rule. You want there to be clarity from an officiating standpoint and a coaching and player standpoint. . . . I think here you might have clarity in a large element of it, but what happens is that it’s not the rule that people really want.”

Goodell said one of those Hall of Fame receivers once said to him that “fans want catches” while Goodell said he is looking for “more clarity and frankly more excitement” rather than lengthy reviews breaking down each play to see if it passes muster. Goodell said that he sees particular confusion when it comes to players going to the ground, so that may be where the league looks to tweak a rule that has long been problematic.
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Over thought, Over analyzed, over reviewed. I cant for the life of me see why this is so difficult. With the infusion of replay, how do the refs get this so wrong on many occasion? Maybe the people involved in actually looking at the replay need to be schooled on what a catch is.

This never used to be a 'Big' problem, a problem at times, yes, but its gotten out of hand.

I just hope they don't do anything stupid and make every bobbled football a catch. When these 'brilliant' minds get together and start trying to figure things out, that's when I cringe.

 

3 Tuck Rule incidents since 1999. Good thing that one is gone.
Patriots appear to be on the benefiting side of Catch Rule circumstances more than on the losing side of them... whether correctly called or not.

Further on the Catch Rule: The Patriots are 12-4 this year, not 13-3. And I'm not talking about Jesse James either. Look at the end of the game v KC. Would it matter by the end of the season? Maybe not. As sports fans, its ok to "hate" the beneficiary for getting an unearned gift. People hate on my teams too. Fair is fair. Oh, and there's this:

And this:

And then there's the Fun Bunch: