Comments on: 2009 NFL Wildcard Beatpaths Power Rankings

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By: Beatpaths » Blog Archive » Ranking Analysis – Wildcard

Beatpaths » Blog Archive » Ranking Analysis – Wildcard — Sun, 17 Jan 2010 19:13:53 +0000

[...] I’m late and posting in the middle of the divisional round, but here is the analysis of the rankings after the Wildcard round. One big mover as a result of the Wildcard games, and that is Denver—a good illustration of how [...]

By: Kenneth

Kenneth — Fri, 15 Jan 2010 16:35:17 +0000

That’s how it looks right now but a lot changes from now until the draft (East-West game, Combine, Pro Days, etc.)

By: doktarr

doktarr — Fri, 15 Jan 2010 15:48:55 +0000

I can’t imagine the Rams won’t pick Ndomakong Suh. They need help everywhere, so you may as well take the best player available, and Suh is as close to a can’t miss guy as exists in the draft.

By: Dave in Tucson

Dave in Tucson — Fri, 15 Jan 2010 04:56:48 +0000

Sorry, but this is kind of a sore point. All this season they were emphasising protecting quarterbacks, calling even minor hands to the face contact. And now the NFL says there was no penalty to call. If the rule is on the books, call it. D∈T

By: Kenneth

Kenneth — Thu, 14 Jan 2010 22:42:24 +0000

Well, I wasn’t trying to say that it shouldn’t have been a penalty, just that it wasn’t a penalty that mattered in the course of the game. It’s like a hold by a receiver on the other side from where the run goes–those two players are not actually in the play, so it doesn’t really matter.

I guess my point is that in general, I care less about having penalties called when they’re not impacting the game. The fact that Rodgers had his face mask grabbed after he fumbled didn’t affect whether the ball was grabbed out of the air and returned for a TD (like it was), bounced on the ground and fell under a pile of players, or picked up by a GB RB and taken in for a GB TD. It’s incidental to the course of the play–a technicality. And I think most fans, when they don’t have so much at stake in a game, prefer that those penalties go uncalled.

(Facemask is a little different from holding, I guess, in that the facemask penalty is intended not only to prevent a move against the rules but also to discourage dangerous behavior, and so it should get called even if it doesn’t affect the play because it can always hurt someone.)

Overall, of course it was a facemask and according to the rules should have been called. And I understand why Green Bay fans would want it called, since it could have saved their season. But it’s not a blown call that prevented them from winning, it’s a blown call that didn’t save their butts. I guess that’s different in my mind.

By: Dave in Tucson

Dave in Tucson — Thu, 14 Jan 2010 21:54:01 +0000

it’s not like that facemask had an effect on the play, after all.

Refs call fouls on stuff that doesn’t affect the play all the time. And they call 15-yard face mask fouls on stuff like that all the time.

Yeah, bad calls happen all the time. But trying to say this shouldn’t have been a penalty is just… bull.

D∈T