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I don't think you understand what price gouging is. Price gouging is when a business take advantage of an external crisis (like a pandemic or disaster) to charge excessive prices. It has nothing to do with companies making a fixed amount of non-necessary product and charging more for it. But I agree, it's a football forum. Lets get back to football.

Is should be illegal for companies to have a choice on when to roll out their products in order to keep prices high and create additional profit for your company and shareholders? I dunno man. That’s a bad precedent in my opinion. These aren’t charities. These are for-profit companies that have a duty to their shareholders to make the most money possible. Im hoping if I keep waiting until the day of the game I might be able to get club tickets for closer to $300 instead of the $800 they’re asking right now. .

I know it's not happening but I really wish we would just copy and paste the Viking stadium. Their climate is the same, budget is close to the same, and it is gorgeous.

I'm glad you're so confident in your ability to judge people that you do not know.

Look again after Baltimore waxes them this weekend.

I've been watching the club tickets and they're $800+ per ticket. No thanks. Whoever owns the ticket can enjoy the game live.

No I like him getting drunk at the SB party and tossing the Lombardi trophy from boat to boat and opening up about his life and not being a robot.

I wonder if it was the stress of NE. I find Brady very likable ever since he left NE.

Looking forward to finally beating Tannehill as a Titan.

This reminds me of a time during the drought era (can’t remember exactly which year) when the crowd at the Ralph was chanting “We want Brady!” during a win. Brady came to town the next week, and well… we definitely did NOT want Brady.

No they held every play. They were just called for it only twice. I’ll post the All-22 when it’s available. You can’t determine that it’s not a good strategy just because one CB got turned around and beat. The best strategies in the world still rely on the the human running the strategy (the players) to do their job. It’s like saying “this washing machine doesn’t work” when you kept pressing the “off” button instead of the “on”. Human error, not machine/strategy error. .

Yes? Except teams have done it. Several times. And the rule has never been called to my knowledge. Someone posted a Ravens team doing it a few years ago.

It was not unintentional. They blatantly held them on every single play of the final drive. It was a clear strategy. The Titans did finally get into field goal range after one of their CB’s got turned around but that has nothing to do with the strategy; it was just bad CB play.

Perfect example. People can quote obscure rules if they want, but the league doesn’t enforce it and i’ve never seen it called. Brilliant move by the Ravens. There are tons of obscure rules that are never called. For example, if the quarterback is under center and doesn’t catch the snap, and the ball goes between his legs, he has to be the next player to touch the ball. If any other player touches the ball before the quarterback (even the defense) it’s ruled as a false start by the offense. Now, how often do you see that craziness called?

Yes because their CB got turned around on one play and got beat. And they had 3.5x more clock to burn than the Bills did.

Have you ever seen this rule applied or called, ever? I haven’t. And it wasn’t applied yesterday when Daboll did it. I can’t say for sure but I doubt McD was concerned about an obscure rule that was never called when he made his decision to play 10+ yards off the WR’s in the final seconds.

Sure. But the point is that the strategy burned block. They just had way more clock to burn than we did and they got beat once.

huh? You thinking i’m a pessimist is clouding your judgment on a post about football game theory?

The rule is that you can’t commit MULTIPLE fouls on the SAME down. So you CAN have: 1st down: Holding 1st down again: Normal Play 2nd down: Holding So you want us to talk football theory without any examples of situations it could possibly help or hinder in? We need to make up scenarios that never happened to talk out game ideas and theories? Ridiculousness in my opinion. Personally I would suggest not going into a thread and posting in it if you don’t like the topic.

Have you ever seen it called? I haven’t. And even if it was, the rule states “on the same down”. So the Bills could have held the Chiefs WR’s for 5-7 seconds on first down and then not again. That would have taken half the clock away right off the bat. The equivalent of a squib kick of time taken off. No, we’re talking football strategy. It matters this year and all years. .

Its smart.

I think you missed the point I was making. You stated that if you were his confidant, you could not in good faith advise him to take less money to be loyal to his team if he did not feel that way. So I asked you - at what point would your advice change? At what point would you tell him (as his confidant); “Dude you’re being an idiot. Take the money.” At what point? As a thought exercise (not rooted in reality), what if Lamar wanted more than a billion? Would you still tell him (as his confidant) to not sign and to keep pushing for more? He is selfish. That is undeniable. But that doesn’t necessarily mean a bad thing. The definition of selfishness is “concerned chiefly with one's own personal profit or pleasure” Is he not concerned chiefly with his own profit? Does he not care more about getting every last dime for himself, rather than helping his team have cap space to sign support players?

The Daboll lead Giants had a 1 point lead and needed to stop Tennessee from getting into field goal range. With 0:45 seconds left, Daboll had a clear strategy. Just hold their wide receivers. They were holding them every play and got called for it twice on the final drive. Clear and blatant and purposeful holding. I imagine that Daboll figured: “So what if we get a penalty?” Defensive holding is only 5 yards and the opponents wastes 5-10 seconds off the clock each play that you’re holding them. It worked really well - at least until a CB got turned around and gave up a long pass. But the technique clearly worked for wasting clock. I have to wonder whether this technique was something discussed by the Bills coaches in the meetings after the 13 second ending and Daboll brought it with him to the Giants. Blatantly holding Kelce, Hill, etc in those 13 seconds likely would have burned enough clock to win the game.

I seem to have been caught in an idiot moment. I’m sorry. I didn’t remember McDermott facing the Titans before the last two years. Oops.