NFL 2007 Season Week 6 Picks

Flawless logic. I'll expect holding calls when I see holding calls. When there is no holding (as was the case on that bogus call that took away touchdown), I expect there to be no holding call. The Packers won, so I 'm not that upset (although the refs cost me 12+ fantasy points for taking 2 touchdowns away from the packers).

Anyway, the "smothering defense" by the Redskins should have given up close to 31 points. I'm feeling pretty good about how this season is going. Especially because the Packers won a game where there played kinda crappy against a pretty good team.

Crazy finish to the Vikings-Bears game. Devin Hester should be considered for MVP, because he definitely changes the way teams approach the kicking game.

Edit: (I was quoting Jon's "smothering defense" comment, and to be fair, he never specified which team he was talking about.)

I thought of something else about my rant about the officials. This is why it is rediculous to say things like "well, my team is really 2 plays away from being 5-0 instead of 3-2". Case in point, I argue that the Packers were 2 calls away from todays game being a Packers victory 31-14 rather than 17-14, and a Redskins fan (or Vikings fan I guess) finds one play that went against them and argues the same thing in their favor. No one play ever determines the outcome of a game, so the idea that one lucky bounce is the difference between winning and losing is rediculous, because the other team could say the same thing about a completely different play (or set of plays).

Thats what you call a 67 candy corn post.

I think that was actually the play the Packers ran when Favre threw his record breaking touchdown.

I had a really good rebuke to that comment, but my browser crashed and I lost everything. Basically it boiled down to the mem wanting to point out that the Packers get their fair share of bogus or lame calls despite some people (who may or may not be members of this site) thinking that the Packers are always the beneficiary of some NFL consipiracy. And I really could care less because the Packers did win and are running away with the NFC North. edit: And I saw the same pass interference call that Jeremy described and it wasn't the onesided call has he described it. When a wide receiver fights off a db and the db ends up on the ground, my gut feeling is that maybe that WR did something merriting a flag. But for the Packers it's a gift call.

There's a reason we marvel at the Marvin Harrisons, Randy Mosses, Cris Carters or the world. The "falling out of bounds, or sprinting out of the back of the endzone, yet managing to sneak your feet inbounds catch" is hard to master. Yet somehow if there's a defender in the area making contact we assume any and every receiver was just milliseconds away from making a catch that would land them on "Top Ten" countdowns across the land.

So take that for what it's worth.