54 Defense
11-30-2007, 06:14 AM
I saw the game hoping to see Ricky be a factor to offset Willie Parker but the game was over after some 300# A-hole stepped on him as he was trying to get up after his fumble. The NFL didn't follow up a penalty on the Steelers A-hole or the team. Now RW cannot play the rest of the season. When you got a team losing half their games by a 3 point margin, the play of Ricky Williams would have turned those into six victories, but of course the guy wasn't allowed to be a factor for the year because the NFL thinks they discovered he may have been smoking MJ somewhere halfway across the world during the off-season.
Part of the reason some think Fins fans were spoiled by many victories, is because Shula was heavy into the NFL's so-called Competition Commitee. You get a kind of disrespect on your players these days though.
I'm not saying Fins should have won here. Is Beck = Roethlesbuerger? Is the Steel D = Fins? No but during the course of the game it was as possible to win as half those other games they lost.
For a coach who seemed to energize the offense in the first half of the season, he makes some controversial play calls at critical times. Cam is like the coaching equivalent of Brian Griese while he played at TB. Plays great, then when its time to cash in and win you get some bird-brain decision. You ask any high school OT what they could do 4th and 13 on the Steelers' 20.
The fallout from Fins fans lately seems to be centered on Cam and Williams, but I think the whole controversy about the losing record should center on the NFL commish's decision to keep Ricky out of contention for the Fins, and is questionable in light of the Patriots spy case. The only times the NFL responded to this spy issue had been when other teams complained of having caught some spying. The NFL didn't to my knowing, try to monitor Patriots espionage with the same exuberance that they test players for MJ. Only when a widely published report became known, did he act against the Pats at all.
The slap-on-the-wrist penalty is nothing compard to the wealth of the Patriots org, and no immediate consequence has yet to be seen of it. Espionage certainly affects competitive balance much more than smoking pot off the field, yet token penalties are put off for next season. The Pats actually benefit from whatever they got from spying this season, without any offsetting penalty.
The financial penalty agaisnt the Patriots, does anyone know if that is taken against the salary cap, or is it just a minor annoyance to Kraft, or whomever the Pats accountant is, to pay out of the Gatorade and helmet wax budget?
Part of the reason some think Fins fans were spoiled by many victories, is because Shula was heavy into the NFL's so-called Competition Commitee. You get a kind of disrespect on your players these days though.
I'm not saying Fins should have won here. Is Beck = Roethlesbuerger? Is the Steel D = Fins? No but during the course of the game it was as possible to win as half those other games they lost.
For a coach who seemed to energize the offense in the first half of the season, he makes some controversial play calls at critical times. Cam is like the coaching equivalent of Brian Griese while he played at TB. Plays great, then when its time to cash in and win you get some bird-brain decision. You ask any high school OT what they could do 4th and 13 on the Steelers' 20.
The fallout from Fins fans lately seems to be centered on Cam and Williams, but I think the whole controversy about the losing record should center on the NFL commish's decision to keep Ricky out of contention for the Fins, and is questionable in light of the Patriots spy case. The only times the NFL responded to this spy issue had been when other teams complained of having caught some spying. The NFL didn't to my knowing, try to monitor Patriots espionage with the same exuberance that they test players for MJ. Only when a widely published report became known, did he act against the Pats at all.
The slap-on-the-wrist penalty is nothing compard to the wealth of the Patriots org, and no immediate consequence has yet to be seen of it. Espionage certainly affects competitive balance much more than smoking pot off the field, yet token penalties are put off for next season. The Pats actually benefit from whatever they got from spying this season, without any offsetting penalty.
The financial penalty agaisnt the Patriots, does anyone know if that is taken against the salary cap, or is it just a minor annoyance to Kraft, or whomever the Pats accountant is, to pay out of the Gatorade and helmet wax budget?