You act like Brady's run-in with the league is an isolated incident. An Aldon Smith fan like yourself should be keenly aware that your track record matters.
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NFL 2015 Week 1 |OT| - A Frauds Quest for Gold
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You act like Brady's run-in with the league is an isolated incident. An Aldon Smith fan like yourself should be keenly aware that your track record matters.
Just need to learn some ball skills. That's actually really worrying to me, but not because of Butlers skill. Seems like the Pats have real issues coaching corners up. They are just fine with veteran corners, but all of the young guys they try and develop don't work out. McCourty honestly just feels like pure dumb luck. Liked what I saw from Butler though. Has to work on the ball skills. Could have knocked down a couple of passes tonight.
They just need to tread water until week 8 or so. After that they can get a few guys back, and the offense will be much better at least.
DeaconKnowledge
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The real piss off this game is that with proper execution this could have been a blowout in the Steelers favor. They always play like dogshit in Foxborough.
I was impressed by the front 7, unfortunately the back end has no clue who's supposed to do what. Can't remember how many times I watched Brady look straight at Will allen trying to get everyone in position with 2 seconds on the play clock.
Offense...welp, when Heyward Bey is your goto guy after Brown you're fucked. And Scobee....Ugh. We left 10 points in the wind.
Lucky you.
I was impressed by the front 7, unfortunately the back end has no clue who's supposed to do what. Can't remember how many times I watched Brady look straight at Will allen trying to get everyone in position with 2 seconds on the play clock.
Offense...welp, when Heyward Bey is your goto guy after Brown you're fucked. And Scobee....Ugh. We left 10 points in the wind.
Lucky you.
This is very entertaining. There's never been any evidence that Brady or Sherman cheated. Their teams have, though. Why is Brady punished for the sins of the Patriots but Sherman is exonerated even though his teammates used Adderall?
I realize I'm spoiled with riches at the CB spot on my team, but I'm still flabbergasted that people would be happy with Butler's performance tonight. The dude got flat-out torched all night long. I don't buy the "bu-bu-but Brown is the best receiver in the league!" defense either. Butler is supposed to be your #1 CB, a #1 CB shouldn't get torched by anyone like that.
You're right. The Pats (who had just had Brady's suspension overturned by simply taking the issue to court) just decided they'd forfeit the draft picks and fine money out of the kindness of their hearts.
Brady is punished because they committed crimes. Repeatedly. Team-wide crimes.
Sherman was not punished because he did nothing wrong. The Seahawks haven't had any substance policy suspensions in nearly two years, unlike your 49ers, so I'm not sure what you're going on about his teammates for.
You're right. The Pats (who had just had Brady's suspension overturned by simply taking the issue to court) just decided they'd forfeit the draft picks and fine money out of the kindness of their hearts.
Brady is punished because they committed crimes. Repeatedly. Team-wide crimes.
Sherman was not punished because he did nothing wrong. The Seahawks haven't had any substance policy suspensions in nearly two years, unlike your 49ers, so I'm not sure what you're going on about his teammates for.
I mean to be fair Brown made some great plays with Butler in near perfect coverage
DeaconKnowledge
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To be fair to the Pats fans, Butler is going to get his ass kissed for at least the first 8 weeks of this season.
Remember when BJ Raji became a superstar for his pick in the NFC Championship game? He was doing Discount Double Check commercials with Clay even after he disappeared on the field.
That's fine, but that's not a reason to celebrate. You throw your hands up and give the other guy credit, sure.
Damn Tomlin is steamed: https://twitter.com/JimmyTraina/status/642184449497669632
CitizenCope
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I'm lttp in this thread. Big Ben looks like dog shit.
Brady so handsome and winning.
Brady so handsome and winning.
MetalFearSolid
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Would Vontae Davis have done a better and had a multiple INTs?
Alligatorjandro
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I don't think anyone thought that Butler would have a Revis type performance. He played like someone who made their first start covering a good receiver.
Nemesis121
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Game put me to sleep...good nap, fuck now i can't go back to sleep..
Let me get this in here once again, before people start making uninformed statements.
https://twitter.com/bruceallen/status/642144672765378560
https://twitter.com/bruceallen/status/642144672765378560
No, he'd have been concussed after an ill advised tackled on dion lewis in the first quarter.
DeaconKnowledge
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You wouldn't know it listening to Collinsworth tonight.
It's been going on for 20 years there. I remember it being a huge deal in the Patriots - Jaguars playoff game 10 years ago. They flat cut the Jaguars QB radio for an entire half. Flat cut it. People have been talking about it openly forever.
DrForester
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NBC never did mention during the entire game that the NFL controls the headsets, did they? They just brought it up, trying to make it into another scandal.
Let me get this in here once again, before people start making uninformed statements.
https://twitter.com/bruceallen/status/642144672765378560
unsure if unbiased
Second year guy who didn't play much at all last season. Has looked good in camp, and looked ok in this game. His real issue was just poor ball skills which should be teachable. Although, I don't particularly trust the Pats with corners. Guy is still young with plenty of time. Brown is a great receiver, and he was with him for the most part. Only two real worrying things tonight from him were ball skills, and double moves. Both of those should improve with time. People are expecting him to be a number one only because the Pats have no one else. Looking at this guy in the wrong way. He has the potential to be a number one, but only if the Pats were extraordinarly lucky he would be that guy this season. He's a guy who looks like he has the tools to be a number one guy.
Edit: Also this is why getting rid of Revis was stupid. Butler would be a guy that would improve greatly with a guy like Revis. Just silly that they let him go.
Let me get this in here once again, before people start making uninformed statements.
https://twitter.com/bruceallen/status/642144672765378560
Somehow then the NFL seems to always have issues in Foxboro and not anywhere else?
This seems about right.
That's fine. I'm not saying the dude will be shit forever, but he had a really bad game tonight.
Alligatorjandro
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Why did the Patriots have problems?
Elfforkusu
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Uh, i'd like to see how they prevent somebody from jamming the wireless band with an antenna from the parking lot...
Physics, dudes. You can't subtract interference.
Read the link that he quotes. It's the official NFL website with official rules.
That's what I've been saying about Stafford's production from 2012-2014 where he did not have a legitimate #2 WR till Golden Tate got here. 2011 when he threw for over 5,000 yards and 41 TDs he had Titus Young and Nate Burleson.
"Well he has Megatron" was always the argument but that doesn't mean anything if Megatron is getting double and triple teamed. You need that #2 option, whether at WR or TE to take that pressure off the #1 WR and your QB.
The Steelers did not have that tonight despite one nice catch by DHB.
DeaconKnowledge
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I wanted to say this before the game, but I think the other NFL owners are conducting a silent revolt.
First those articles leaks, which savaged both the Patriots (rightly) AND Goodell, and now Tomlin, who makes a point never to badmouth league issues or other teams..
Lions were one of the lowest scoring teams in the league last year.
Where is KHarvey when we need him?
Kas, how did you feel about the defensive pass interference call in the end zone in the 2nd (I think?) quarter?
New England sabotaging head sets has been an open secret forever. This might finally be the time that ESPN feels allowed to look into why it's the only stadium that teams expect shit to mysteriously break.
You can't interfere with properly shielded electronics. And it makes absolutely no sense to simply induce such interference if your goal is to disrupt communication. Unplug it or mess with the switching.
Also an antenna in the parking lot would have to be massive and very high power to do such a thing.
yep. Every team has free will to complain if anything happens at Gillette.
ViperVisor
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18th in points over the last 3 years.
DeaconKnowledge
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That's just it. I think what we're seeing is a non confidence vote for Goodell. He couldn't get the punishment the league wanted on the Pats, so now it's open season on them, and Goodell
TemplaerDude
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Rofl Tomlin cry moar.
Himynameischris
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I didn't watch the game because I was in class, but I see the cheating cheats were cheating again. Football really is back 
Alligatorjandro
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Any explanation why the Patriots were having the same issues?
Plausible deniability.
DeaconKnowledge
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Spectral Glider
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Best line I read on Steelernation forum:
They're playing fair by cheating the same way against themselves. If they'd only filmed their own signals during practice then spygate would have been a non-issue.
Alligatorjandro
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I'm glad we have the answers.
DeaconKnowledge
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Happy to help.
Zvonimir Boban
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Did the Pats have the same issues though? The commentators said that the Pats stopped using their headsets "to keep it fair" or some shit like that, not because they were having communication issues themselves.
I had the commentary volume down for most of the game so I don't know if they changed or clarified things later.
I had the commentary volume down for most of the game so I don't know if they changed or clarified things later.
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