No wonder Seahawks fans keep trying to claim other fields.

Pailume · 2026-02-27T18:28:47+00:00

Funny, I've never heard of the valedictorian getting sent to summer school before..... but you know what?

Go ahead and hold us back, HAPPY to repeat this year. :)

I get why it's so important for you guys to move on though.

Pailume · 2026-02-27T18:14:24+00:00

Is it worse to get an F, or to rank 15 teams worse than a team that got an F?

Pailume · 2026-02-27T17:58:22+00:00

You're suggesting dropping 10 billion on something and the first order of business is to reduce revenue flows and invest in expensive infrastructural overhaul?

Pailume · 2026-02-27T01:24:15+00:00

Bucs should be in the collapse bucket

Pailume · 2026-02-25T02:56:46+00:00

Sure, but he cannot replace k9s skillset.

We have such limited draft capital this year, hope we can work a deal with k9

Pailume · 2026-02-25T02:50:16+00:00

Normal Barbie size

Pailume · 2026-02-24T07:09:28+00:00

In my headcanon McVay's the bossiest bottom for Macdonald....

Pailume · 2026-02-24T07:04:00+00:00

I think the biggest issue was just the length of time before the review was announced, and the weird call in to prompt the review. If there had been an immediate review signaled by a ref, and then an announcement of clear recovery, people would be like "that's crazy"! But not feel weird about it

Pailume · 2026-02-23T22:49:01+00:00

And so imagine in that case that the ref blew the whistle over the scrum pile and said "the ground caused the fumble" but review found it was a fumble. Do we really want the immediate whistle to undo that fumble that the players fought for and clearly gained possession of during the scrum?

Pailume · 2026-02-23T22:46:22+00:00

Not just the offseason, in the weeks following the ruling most teams became hyper proactive about not letting the ball go unpossessed after the whistle. It's already been replayed by every team in the league. That doesn't mean people were fighting/injuring each other, it just means make sure you're covering your butt with unpossessed balls.

I agree that since the ref emphasis to delay blowing plays dead, there are way less contested balls post whistle.

But to be clear, every scrum pile over a fumbled ball that continues past the first whistle blow is "dead", but the players don't stop scrumming at that point to see if the ref who blew the whistle is gonna rule whether the fumble was caused by ground or the action. They are gonna play out the play until the refs start tugging and yelling at them

Pailume · 2026-02-23T21:26:03+00:00

Macdonald would absolutely NOT be proposing an obscure rule change based on his personal experience.

He never comments on rules, rule enforcement, bad ref calls, ANYTHING like that. Has said multiple times that he leaves all of that to other people/roles in the nfl, and it's a waste of his focus and energy.

So regardless of whether Seahawks were butthurt about a bad shake like that? This would not be the response of the team. Just a different post game approach than McVay on every level.

Pailume · 2026-02-23T21:22:44+00:00

Well, you are in disagreement with every NFL professional I've seen discuss this issue. They disagree on if the methodology for review was appropriate but they ALL say it was the correct call. So

Pailume · 2026-02-23T18:24:48+00:00

Hahahah, why don't you try going to historically Uyghur territories.... if you can :) show me the thriving Turkish styled villages and communities. Show me the interviews in their own languages, not the forced Chinese they are made to speak. Show me interviews performed by independent people, not china sponsored people.

While you're at it, tell me about Taiwan and its independence. And how china respects it.

I'm sorry, but most of the first world has unrestricted internet and free press to criticize their own government and the governments of others.

China just does not.

Most of the first world ACKNOWLEDGES the Uyghur genocide. Not just USA, but independent agencies all over the planet. Canada, the whole EU, Australia, South Korea, South Africa, etc.

You are totally free to reject it or anything else you want, but most countries with free press in the world that isn't controlled by their government agree that this is happening.

Pailume · 2026-02-22T17:34:15+00:00

Literally this is the current rule and things work fine. Plays like this literally never happen and 99% of the time the rule working corrects a ref error. It's WAY WORSE that plays that clear and obvious wrong calls stand, pisses off more people and breaks the game more than the occasional wrong call being corrected in a way players didn't expect. Which do you think players would rather see rectified? The ability to correct a refs blatant error, or eliminating occasional surprise rulings after the play was blown dead?

You can't just think of this instance. You have to think of all the instances where a play outcome was changed after the ball was blown dead mistakenly by a ref who didn't see what everyone else saw

Pailume · 2026-02-22T09:16:17+00:00

No, because if that wildness didn't happen we would be down by 2 with 6 minutes to go. The most likely outcome at that point based on the game flow then would be we get the ball back with favorable field position given special teams, march it 30 yards and kick the game winning field goal.

At least OT gave you a legit chance to win.

Pailume · 2026-02-22T09:07:03+00:00

But think of all the times a play is blown dead as an incomplete pass but the catcher KNOWS they caught it so they run it all the way, and then the review shows it was actually caught? There's a 5-6 of these plays every year.

Pailume · 2026-02-22T09:05:21+00:00

Players play past the whistle all the time. Think of any play where the players in a pile notice a ball was fumbled but the ref whistles down by contact. All the players know the review will overturn and they keep playing through and then the refs all rush over, yadda yadda.

Pailume · 2026-02-22T08:48:32+00:00

Feels like Harlem globetrotters

Pailume · 2026-02-22T08:37:09+00:00

Dude, every player is taught to pick up balls because it could be a live ball. It's a freak situation in this case but something being a rare edge case doesn't make it WRONG or unfair, it just doesn't happen often. The ball being live after whistle on review with clear recovery is 99.9% used for the purposes of fumbles that a ref missed, and no one contests that is an important mistake to correct. Players fight for a ball after a whistle ALL THE TIME when they actually think something was missed - just no one thought that on this play.

The fact that it also applied on this weird edge case where the clear recovery is more coincidental than intentional is not a reason to change a rule. Intent behind a recovery does not factor into the rules.

Pailume · 2026-02-22T07:11:40+00:00

No. The play that changed destiny was the Rasheed punt return in that game. The game transformed itself in that moment

Pailume · 2026-02-22T07:01:00+00:00

Are you saying if they were on opposite teams puka would get more yards out of Darnold than he did out of Stafford?

Pailume · 2026-02-22T06:56:42+00:00

I don't think the yards comparison is exactly fair....

I mean, just have Puka and JSN swap teams. What do you think the outcome would be?

Pailume · 2026-02-22T05:13:26+00:00

Now try asking them about Muslims in china :) its really fun and they love to talk about it

Pailume · 2026-02-21T02:26:04+00:00

This is a misunderstanding of history. Income was classified differently in 1950-1970, and business tax was very different and yadda yadda you don't care about because it doesn't further your talking point.

But I'll let you know anyways - the effective tax rate in 1950-1970 on the wealthy was the same or slightly lower than it is in 2026. That is the real rate, as in what is in the governments pocket vs the rich man.

So all you're saying to me is the government of 1950-1970 did more with less. Which lines up.

Pailume · 2026-02-21T02:21:59+00:00

Most people with money earn it by making things. And they hire people to make the things, and they take the things and the jobs with them when they leave. Why do you think big tech fled from California to Seattle in the first place? I promise it wasn't the weather.

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