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See Red

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  1. I mean, you say that but the play worked. Maybe Dallas should have recognized that the receiver was off the line and #68 was in an eligible position but they were still late to cover him. The official’s mistake would be halfway understandable if he said Sewell reported instead of the guy who didn’t actually talk to him. And then there’s the fact that Campbell talked to the officials about this specific play and how they would run it if this situation came up before the game. The Lions did everything right on this play. They shoulder zero blame here.
  2. Actually a pretty brilliant play by the Lions if the officials didn’t completely screw it up. I imagine they’re trying to confuse Dallas into hearing the number end with an 8 and thinking it’s that Sewell is reporting eligible. #70 pretty clearly never talks to the official as the official is walking away before he even gets there. The thing that still doesn’t make sense is that if they believed #68 to be ineligible, it should have immediately been flagged as an illegal formation since the last guy on the line has to be eligible and #68 has to report to be eligible. But they didn’t.
  3. First penalty bumped it back to the 7 yard line, but since the offsides penalty happened inside the 10, it's only enforced half the distance to the goal. It looks an awful lot like the officials messed the reporting up and the Lions got screwed and the official in the booth said it was an illegal formation because he's uncovered but if he reports, he has to be uncovered. edit: Actually, I believe if the refs thought #68 wasn't eligible, they should have immediately thrown a flag for an illegal formation when the ball was snapped, but didn't. So why didn't they do that?
  4. Opt outs are only relevant when it's not an SEC team's players opting out. Otherwise it's just the SEC whining and making excuses. Doesn't hold much water when Georgia brings in the freshmen at halftime and continues the drubbing. Biggest blowout in bowl game history and Georgia could've put another 30 on them if they cared to.
  5. Don’t care who was out for Florida State, they look like a mid-tier FCS team right now against Georgia. Embarrassing efffort that probably doesn’t bode well for their 2024 team.
  6. I would be fine with McCaffrey or Lamar Jackson at this point. I’d probably lean towards Lamar because as much as it sucks that it’s basically a QB-only award at this point, it’s hard to argue that the player that touches the ball on every offensive possession, is responsible for getting the offense out of or into certain plays, etc. isn’t the most valuable. With Lamar specifically, even if the numbers aren’t gaudy, his mobility (even just the threat of it) is still what makes the whole thing go. As far as Russell Wilson, this is basically to prevent him from getting injured in the last two games, which could lead to a huge guarantee in 2025. I don’t know if this means they move on from him this off-season but I believe it does mean they are making sure it’s an option. Hope they do release him, personally. He hasn’t been awful awful and I don’t think the cap situation will improve much but he’s been bad enough and I don’t think I can stomach watching him panic in a clean pocket and start running backwards anymore.
  7. Purdy went from MVP front runner to being benched for Sam Darnold.
  8. Russ Wilson is stealing money. Unreal how bad he is. edit: I stand by what I said no matter how this game turns out.
  9. Next year we’ll have Kool-aid McKinstry on an NFL teams roster
  10. The guy who coached Jimmy G to a Super Bowl is not this era’s Marty Schottenheimer.
  11. I don’t think Johnson is a particularly good play caller and is a clear step down from Steichen (who is exceptional based on what he’s done in Indy) but both of those interceptions were on Hurts and if he has to be handheld to not make those throws, he’s every bit the problem.
  12. I've only watched three plays of this Broncos/Lions games and it's just three plays of ref :censored:ery. This league sucks.
  13. Lamar Jackson won it for a Louisville team that played in the Citrus Bowl. The award is specifically for the most OUTSTANDING player, which, to me, was Daniels.
  14. I believe what's considered Tebow's "Heisman moment" isn't really a moment but a full game where he had 7 TD's (5 rushing, 2 passing) vs South Carolina, so I guess not. In that same sense, maybe Daniels' "Heisman moment" would be his 600+ yard game vs. Florida?
  15. Iowa is indisputably the best defense in college football this year. Louisville has a middle-tier P5 defense. FSU had 224 yards against a Florida defense that was easily one of the worst P5 defenses in the country. Louisville is ranked above Iowa because Iowa's offense is one of a handful of worst in FBS. Ohio State's defense is better than FSU and Michigan looked perfectly fine against them. FSU's defense, while good, wasn't in the same stratosphere as Iowa, Michigan, Georgia, etc.
  16. Having a better record than another team is a consideration, just as playing a more difficult schedule is a consideration. It is not the end-all. Maybe your system is better, maybe it's more fair. But your system is not currently in place.
  17. Welcome to college football! You’ve got, like, 104 seasons to catch up on and they’re just littered with exactly what you’re describing. It’s all eye tests and opinions and all of that. Again, FSU claims a national championship that sets a precedent for Alabama getting in over them AND Texas. And yes, all FSU had to do was look competent in either of their two games without Travis instead of fielding the second worst offense in the country. But Rodemaker was terrible against Florida so I don’t know why anybody thinks he would’ve fared better against Louisville.
  18. You just made the single most-compelling argument for the committee to select Alabama as one of the four best teams.
  19. I agree the sport was better off when it was less focused on championships. Now this half-assed attempt to normalize it while clinging to the older traditions has left it in the worst possible spot. Add to that NIL and the transfer portal (which are great if there’s a better way to implement it) and it’s just in a terrible place right now.
  20. People aren’t going to like it anymore than they like it now. Look at the top 12 right now. There’s five teams that will be in the Big Ten next year, six teams that will be in the SEC, and one that will be in the ACC. And you can probably add another loss to all of those SEC/B10 teams and take one away from the Big XII teams.
  21. Their lone loss is to the #3 team, they just beat the previous #1 team, and their third best win is equal to FSU's best win as both teams beat LSU. And also that Jordan Travis got hurt and FSU suddenly has an offense that rivals Iowa's.
  22. The year before that Florida State played against Nebraska in the National Championship game over undefeated West Virginia and a one-loss Notre Dame team that had beaten them in the regular season. Here's the CFP protocol. It ambiguously specifies that the committee selects the four best teams, and can consider "other relevant factors such as unavailability of key players and coaches that may have affected a team’s performance during the season or likely will affect its postseason performance." They've been pretty lucky so far that there haven't been this many P5 teams that had a case but in 2014 (I think) Ohio State had suffered an injury to their two starting QBs and the injury thing was up for discussion. But then Ohio State went out and beat a 10-win Wisconsin team 59-0 in the Big Ten Championship Game and went on the win the National Championship. Having an undefeated P5 conference team missing is unprecedented, but having an one-loss team ranked higher than an undefeated P5 team isn't since, again in 2014, one-loss Oregon was #2 and undefeated FSU #3. I don't think it's fair to FSU, personally, but I don't think the wrong decision was made either. If it's "best" teams, it's hard to argue FSU without Travis is better than Alabama. And the playoff would have been expanded this year rather than next if the ACC/Big Ten/Pac 12 alliance didn't vote against it in an effort to screw the SEC, so the irony is pretty great.
  23. Do I need to? They lost 65-7 to Georgia. I don’t care if they got one fluke win, they didn’t belong on the same field as Georgia. And FSU sans Travis is way worse than TCU last year.
  24. Win decisively. It should not have been difficult to win decisively against a Florida team that was also on their backup QB. Also shouldn't have been difficult to beat Louisville decisively when the officiating was as one-sided as it was. There was that one year an undefeated Auburn team was left out of the BCS Championship game in favor of an Oklahoma team they were clearly better than.
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