Green Bay stuffs Chicago setting up 4th and 8 for Chicago in field goal range with 2:26 left in the first half. McCarthy amazingly does not call timeout, and lets Chicago run the time off the clock until the 2 minute warning.
Gruden is right. Refs screwing this game up by making bogus "defenseless receiver" calls for the home team but not for the road team.
Brees takes shot down the field, ball deflected and picked off by Falcons. Not sure if that throw and catch would have broken the record, but he threw into what looked like double coverage.
Awful officiating tonight, heavily favoring the Saints. They just somehow missed encroachment from Shaun Rogers!!!!! How do you miss a man that size?
Just waiting for Brees to break this record, but it is taking a long time. Julio Jones fumbles, and Mike Jenkins picks it up and runs it in for a TD. Back to a 3 score lead.
under 3 minutes left, 38-16, Brees still throwing to try and break the record. Guess he wants to break it at home on MNF? Don't see what's wrong with breaking it at home in week 17 against Carolina. he finally got it with a TD pass to Sproles.
Saints running up the score just decided the fantasy championship in the league I'm involved in :rofl: Guy had Brees, down a few points. If the Saints just ran the ball like a normal team, he loses. Instead, the TD pass wins it.
Brees IS awesome and fun to watch. But frustrating too as he SO MUCH TIME to decide where to throw!!!
Where is the outrage here?! I can't post links but here you go: "The lingering question that surrounds the whole thing is just how classy the move was and, more important, if Atlanta can do anything about it. The 9-6 Falcons will return to 12-3 New Orleans in the first round of the playoffs if the NFC seeding holds form after the final week of the season. Will the fact that the Saints essentially ran up the score matter to the Falcons? After the game, the Falcons said all the right things. Atlanta coach Mike Smith congratulated the “classy” Brees for the accomplishment. However, underneath that, those close to him said Smith was seething over the move. Up 38-16 with 5:08 remaining, New Orleans stopped Atlanta on downs at the Falcons’ 33-yard line. At that moment, Brees needed 30 yards to break Marino’s record. To some, this would have been a time to run the clock out and head home with a victory. New Orleans coach Sean Payton saw it as a time to go for the record. With a packed house and a national television audience watching, Payton made a choice that those who value sportsmanship will undoubtedly hate. He called for passes on five of the next six plays as Brees put up 32 yards to run his total to 5,087 yards for the season, passing Marino’s mark of 5,084, set in 1984."
There's no outrage for two reasons: first, many people believe running up the score doesn't exist in pro football (if you don't like it, stop them), and second, because calling 30 yards worth of passing plays to try to set a record like this in front of the home crowd is hardly "running up the score" anyway. This is complete nonsense. And by the way, your motives in using this somehow as evidence of Brady and BB being treated unfairly are also completely transparent, and utterly absurd. Save that garbage for a Pats board. (I won't deny, however, that unlike BB, who is despised, Brees is very popular around the league, so people are happy to see him succeed. If you don't like that you should act tell BB to act like less of a jerk.)
I have absolutely no problem with what Brees did. If you can't stop him, why are you playing in the NFL? He was going for a record, just like Brady/Moss in 2007. I'm trying to point out the difference in reaction by Jet fans to the two situations, I wasn't trying to hide that whatsoever. Up three scores in the fourth quarter, the Patriots run the ball on fourth down for a TD and people here freak out. I understand we are a division rival and I'm not here looking for sympathy but just pointing out the hypocrisy. And I know this is going to be tough, but please explain to me how Belichick has acted like a jerk?
He needed 30 yards for the record, at home, on MNF. The fact that they scored was incidental. Apples and oranges when compared to the Patriots propensity to run up the score whenever they can. Yes, if you don't like it, stop them. But when Brady gets injured late in a game throwing when up 3 scores, your tune will change.
You have got to be kidding - no one could possibly be this clueless, even a Pats fan. Going to be tough to find examples? He's as big a sore loser as it's been my misfortune to see in professional sports. People have been talking about how poorly he treats people for years. Oh, and then there's the little matter of the affair he had with a married woman that broke up her marriage. Here are a few articles that took me exactly 1 minute to find using Google; note that in one of them Ellis Hobbs refers to how Belichick explicitly says that he deliberately acts like a jerk as part of his shtick. Belichick is exactly as much of a jerk as Rex Ryan is a blowhard and Phil Jackson was a "zen master." I assume Belichick realizes that as a result he is despised by many, and he doesn't care. The fact that you don't recognize it, on the other hand, is hysterically funny. http://sports.espn.go.com/nfl/columns/story?columnist=farrey_tom&id=3191859 http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/2007/writers/phil_taylor/09/12/week1/index.html http://content.usatoday.com/communities/thehuddle/post/2009/07/68493391/1 I already pointed out that even if someone doesn't like "running up the score" Brees passing for 30 yards at the end of the game wasn't that, so there's actually no hypocrisy at all. If you don't like how people here despise the Patriots and Belichick, on the other hand, please feel free to leave, because that's not going to change.
