This isn’t so much a recap show as it is a what the f— just happened show. Or as Jeff calls it, the morning after show!
Steven and Jeff can only sit and speculate what is going on in the NFL as the Week 3 finale on Monday night between the Packers and Seahawks leaves a bad taste in their mouths. They still cannot believe what they saw transpire at CenturyLink Field.
After spending the better part of the show on the Monday night game, the guys quickly discuss a few high points from the crazy week in the NFL. Plus funny man Costaki Economopoulos makes a brief cameo before he crashes his bike in the river.
THOUGHTS WHILE LISTENING TO EPISODE 8.20
Great early posting time! Thanks guys!
The NFC Worst has become the NFC Best: after 3 weeks – most wins (fewest losses).
Golden Tate ain’t so golden to me.
The back judge waved to stop a clock that probably had no time left on it.
Great info: this officiating team is the same one that botched calls in Rams vs. Skins.
Thanks for explaining the ref’s lock-out/strike.
The show has been so negative for so long I’m hoping you talk about the 3 – 0s (Texans, Falcons, & Cardinals) & the 1 – 2s (Titans, Chiefs, & Raiders) that won their first game this week. Or, bring in the comedian instead.
Perfect. You’ve found a formula that works well under an hour: let Steven recall the games, and let Jeff comment.
Schwartz is such a putz.
Aaron Rodgers has never won on MNF! Wow!
Belichick is used to explanations from the refs. He wasn’t getting any. Reason to touch?
Here come the sea horses!
Dun.
Wait a minute! What’s that song?
Thanks for the episode, I didn’t know that the sticking point was tenure for the Refs, I’m with you guys that the refs should not get tenure, you need to be able to get rid of the bad ones. Much like with the player lock out once again the fans are left to nash our teeth, with no real power. No one believes we will actually boycott watching the sport so the league can and will continue to get away with this damaging actions until the refs move on tenure, unfortunately when being a ref is not their primary source of income they are not under much pressure to alter their position.
No Jedi-Mind-Trick is going to persuade me that I didn`t see Jennings make an interception. That`s what I saw, Mike Lombardi saw, Brian Billick saw, Steve Marriuchi saw, etc. etc. ad infinitum. So in todays NFL you cannot credit the winner of a match as having won by being the better team on the day. They probably just benefited from the balance of bad calls.
Who ever wins the Lombardi trophy this year won`t be able to polish the tarnish off it!
Loved the episode and your takes on the ongoing referee situation. Given that time was running out towards the end, I’d love to get your takes on the Texans-Broncos game. Thanks!
Great show once again.
Found a Taiwanese news report on the goings on in the NFL that kind of says what’s going on:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-McWr0bU6aw&feature=player_embedded
Good week for my Bengals! Cant wait till you get wide receiver Armon Binns on the show!
Glad the deal has been done and we can get back to real football.
It has been interesting to note the reaction in Las Vegas. Apparantly the “Toucherception” call cost them $300m and they`re pretty pissed about it. Now, if the bookies can`t calculate odds (given the replacement refs variable), sufficient to gaurantee themselves an edge, would they continue to do so?
If NOT the NFL`s reputation as a clean, fair, “level-playing-field” game decided by skill would`ve been flushed down the toilet. The outcry from the fans is one thing to deal with but the possibility of Las Vegas saying the NFL is about as credible as pro-wrestling would be quite another. Can`t help thinking that this may have been a factor in the rapidity with which the deal got signed.
Great show guys! I mostly agree with your analysis of Monday night. The call was atrocious and it was the clearest sign yet that the regular refs need to (and thankfully will!) come back.
That said, for as justified as those points are I also think there’s been an enormous amount of overreaction to the situation. I particularly take issue with the notion that the Packers were robbed. No team has EVER lost an NFL game due solely to the refs – Monday night included. If the Packers were robbed it’s only because they put themselves in a position to be robbed by giving up 8 sacks in the first half and playing poorly throughout. That final call didn’t exist in a vacuum. It was the conclusion of 59 minutes of fairly poor play on behalf of Green Bay.
Let’s remember too that the Packers aren’t the first team to get screwed badly by the refs this season. Jim Harbaugh was given about 8,000 timeouts in Sunday’s game against the Vikings. The difference is, the Vikings played well enough for that error to be irrelevant.
The moral of the story is if a team puts itself in a position to lose a game to the refs they have only themselves to blame. The outcry over Monday night was justified, but it also came with a painfully narrow and one-sided perspective