Silly me—I thought the statements "around the league it is almost NEVER called that way" and "this has been going on throughout the league for years and hasn't been called the way the rulebook says" actually meant what those words mean. In fact they mean "only that it is inconsistent throughout the NFL"? That's rather strange, given that the latter claim appears to be communicating something entirely different.Jordysghost wrote:I wasn't asserting that the call was 'never' called correctly, only that it is inconsistent throughout the NFL....
Really? Because I think looking at two whole games played in the same week and finding the very thing that you claimed "almost NEVER" happens (again, silly me, presuming that the words you used mean what those words mean) actually happened in BOTH of them is in fact a rather cogent disproof of the propositions that (1) "around the league it is almost NEVER called that way" and (2) "this has been going on throughout the league for years and hasn't been called the way the rulebook says." If the mistake I pointed out in the OP is so ordinary and subject to happening all the time, how come it was so incredibly easy for me to find two games in which the rule was applied correctly?Cherry picking calls from a 2 week sample size means nothing.
"Sample size" and "cherry-picking" are notably weak rejoinders to (ISTM rather successful) attempts to refute the actual assertions you made, as opposed to the weak one you retreated to later.
As I believe I've already pointed out, so are you. Who's "cherry-picking" now?you are just a fan with an agenda...
And I think I've already noted (as did Pete Carroll before me) that 130 yards and a touchdown in three plays (that crucially contributed to two wins) is hardly a "mole hill" (sic)....trying to make a mountain out of a mole hill to discredit a rivals accomplishments.
As I told Mothman—if I get time to do that, I'll give it a shot. With GamePass, I think I might even be able to go over all of the games played through Weeks 1-3.you need to both examine the calls and non calls over a larger sample size, prefferably something over two weeks, and also examine a larger number of franchises....
I'd like to know, though, what I can expect from you if I do that. Presuming that I find, as I think is likely, that the three missed calls in Lambeau are the only times that this particular rule has been ignored in 2015, will you still claim "cherry-picking"? Or are you in fact capable of coming to the conclusion that the Packers have enjoyed unfairly favorable treatment, to their very substantial benefit, from the officials?