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This is bad if he is out for the playoffs, but I am for playing starters all season. This year Belichick is going to make all coaches go even more conservative.
Originally posted by BigDaddyLocoThis is bad if he is out for the playoffs, but I am for playing starters all season. This year Belichick is going to make all coaches go even more conservative.
While Welker is a textbook case on why those playoff teams should reserve the right to rest their starters, the counter-argument could be the fact that the Jets are a 7-9 team if the Colts and Bengals don't lay down for them. Instead, New York's going to the playoffs and the Texans get shafted.
Originally posted by BigDaddyLocoThis is bad if he is out for the playoffs, but I am for playing starters all season. This year Belichick is going to make all coaches go even more conservative.
While Welker is a textbook case on why those playoff teams should reserve the right to rest their starters, the counter-argument could be the fact that the Jets are a 7-9 team if the Colts and Bengals don't lay down for them. Instead, New York's going to the playoffs and the Texans get shafted.
Here's why I think this is stupid: Can anyone give me a hypothetical rule the league could adopt that would be both enforceable and not stupid? I mean, "You must start your starters" doesn't really mean anything. What could the league possibly do even if it wanted to?
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I was inclined to pick the Ravens against the Patriots anyway, but with the key cog in the Patriots' offensive engine dislodged, it's now easier to do so. The question now is whether they'll get Welker back in time for next season.
Originally posted by TheBucsFanHere's why I think this is stupid: Can anyone give me a hypothetical rule the league could adopt that would be both enforceable and not stupid? I mean, "You must start your starters" doesn't really mean anything. What could the league possibly do even if it wanted to?
There isn't one. The idea of rewarding playoff teams with extra compensatory draft picks for not benching players is also downright stupid and damn near discriminatory. Why shouldn't a team that's 3-12 be able to get some extra draft picks for playing their top guys the last week of the season?
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Originally posted by It's FalseWhile Welker is a textbook case on why those playoff teams should reserve the right to rest their starters, the counter-argument could be the fact that the Jets are a 7-9 team if the Colts and Bengals don't lay down for them. Instead, New York's going to the playoffs and the Texans get shafted.
The Texans didn't get shafted. Yes, the Jets most likely didn't play a regular squad the full 60 in their last two games, but they still did the job they had to do and won. If the Texans were truly a playoff team, they wouldn't had blown all of those leads they had against the Jags and the Colts, among others. And they definitely wouldn't had laid an egg in the opener against the Jets.
The same could be said about the Steelers. If they truly deserved to defend their championship, they should had won against KC, Oakland, and Cleveland. The Broncos shouldn't had collasped in the second half of the season, and the Jags shouldn't had lost their last four games. The Jets earned their spot. And I hate them, so it pains me to say this, but it's the truth.
I'm perfectly fine with the fact that White Wes was in there, even if they have White Wes Jr. (Edelman) right there on the sidelines. I might have shed a man-tear right along with Welker. (And, I'm not exaggerating when I say this was like the first play I watched of football Sunday. Nice start, boys.)
Hopefully a "renewed-and-'we gotta to this for Wes'"-Randy Moss and Julian Edelman = whatever-percent-we-were-getting-of-Randy-Moss and Welker. Or at least close.
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Originally posted by TheBucsFanHere's why I think this is stupid: Can anyone give me a hypothetical rule the league could adopt that would be both enforceable and not stupid? I mean, "You must start your starters" doesn't really mean anything. What could the league possibly do even if it wanted to?
Not a lot. You'd just wind up with a bunch of starters picking up mystery ailments late in the season. Even then, with the amount of rotation that goes on at many positions these days defining what constitutes a starter might be difficult in some cases.
A similar argument gets brought up nearly every year in soccer for some reason even though it seems glaringly obvious that you could never enforce such a rule. Besides, why should a team that played well enough to secure a playoff spot be denied the right to give some of their young guys some game time?
Originally posted by It's FalseInstead, New York's going to the playoffs and the Texans get shafted.
To be fair, I don't think the Pats will have Brian Hoyer as their go to guy if they're looking for a 4th quarter comeback this weekend. And the Jets *did* beat the Texans already.
It sucks a little for the teams that miss out, but if the Texans, Steelers or anyone else is upset about it they should give serious consideration to not playing like shite on multiple occasions during the regular season.
Oh, yeah, I saw that on PTI. I couldn't help but think that was ridiculously ironic when it seemed like 5 years in a row that Gillette/Foxboro would turn into a quagmire each time the passing-oriented offense of the Colts came to town.
So you're saying, in TheOldMan's hypothetical, that the refs could arbitrarily put time back on the clock because they wouldn't like the proposed tactic of holding in the endzone?