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mikey728
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Early odds are Rams by 3.5 .............
I think we will do well. Seattle draws Green Bay. Green Bay could take that game to put them with an opening loss. Could be very interesting.
Rams will win.
I'm not sure about the Packers-Seahawks game but I'll be watching it! If the Seahawks play like they did in the Super Bowl, then they win.
Yep, just like the refs shouldn't have allowed the Patriot defenders to mug the Ram WRs in the Super Bowl.
The defending champions will almost certainly get the benefit of the doubt from the refs if they don't get outright favoritism. They won that way last year, the league is not going to torpedo their style and now say, "hey, this team isn't really that good" That would hurt the credibility of their SB win. The refs will be a non-factor Shopson.
I guess we'll see. There has been a huge shift on how illegal contact is being called this year, basically to letter of the rule. Remains to be seen how consistent they will be with that in the regular season though.
OK Boss, you've got me confused. First you said the refs wouldn't hold back Seattle's defense, then you said the NFL only cares about offense?
You can have both these scenarios exist concurrently Shopson. There is no doubt in anybody's mind the NFL has become an offensive dominated league. All the rules promote passing and scoring. Every year they take something away from the defense so the offense can score more. But they aren't going to undermine their current world champion by making them look bad and start throwing flags all over them now. That would make it look like the refs control far too much of the game (as if they didn't now) Let's just wait and see. I say there are no more flags against Seattle this game than there were last year. And I also say there will be multiple games with the scoring in the 40s. The proof is in the outcome is it not?
I don't want 3-0 games often, but I would prefer that to an arena league clone where NOTHING matters except scoring...If 17-10, 24-21 games aren't enough scoring for the NFL, then I think they are more screwed up than I thought..I sure seems to me that excitement can come in more than one way...And if I ever hear that fantasy football bullshit has an impact on rules in the NFL, it would be very hard for me to take it seriously...I guess the casual fan comment was correc
t to a point..The NHL suffers from the same malady...The casuals find it boring...If you have played the game at all, you understand the flow...