The New England Patriots 2014 Playoffs Thread

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How fucking pumped do you think Chancellor feels running that back? He's heading down the entire length of the field in the playoffs and looks back to see that he'll take it all the way. Then the crowd starts roaring. That's gotta be a fucking amazing feeling.
 
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Robert Baratheon_sl

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Elurin_sl said:
How fucking pumped do you think Chancellor feels running that back? He's heading down the entire length of the field in the playoffs and looks back to see that he'll take it all the way. Then the crowd starts roaring. That's gotta be a fucking amazing feeling.
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I've always felt that an interception where the ball is able to be returned any significant amount of yardage is the most exciting play in football.
 
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Cam and Kaep are the same QB, I swear. Guys with huge potential that show flashes of greatness, but just completely unsure of themselves.
 
Chanur

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I thought Cam played pretty well considering Seattle is the best defense in football.
 
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Chanur_sl said:
I thought Cam played pretty well considering Seattle is the best defense in football.
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I thought so too. Their defense did a great job stopping the run in the first half. Really though Kam Chancellor played out of his fucking mind today.
 
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God I hate the sea chickens. From here on out, New England is America's team.
 
Fennin

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There might be a rule investigation forthcoming in the off season over some of the plays the Patriots were running in the second half of the Baltimore game. The Patriots were basically exploiting a rule discrepancy by not identifying their eligible receiver until just before the snap, while at the same time only using 4 lineman.

While not a clear violation of the rules, it was a direct exploitation of the rules which the Refs failed to address until New England had already taken the lead. New England can't be punished for the plays in question, but it will be interesting to see if the NFL acts in the off season or if New England runs similar plays in the AFC Championship game.
 
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Fennin_sl said:
There might be a rule investigation forthcoming in the off season over some of the plays the Patriots were running in the second half of the Baltimore game. The Patriots were basically exploiting a rule discrepancy by not identifying their eligible receiver until just before the snap, while at the same time only using 4 lineman.

While not a clear violation of the rules, it was a direct exploitation of the rules which the Refs failed to address until New England had already taken the lead. New England can't be punished for the plays in question, but it will be interesting to see if the NFL acts in the off season or if New England runs similar plays in the AFC Championship game.
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It's a random dude on Reddit, so take that as you will...but a guy who was at the game claims they were announcing it every time when Vereen's eligibility status changed. It really seemed like Harbaugh expects the officials to slow down the snap or something until the defense figures out what's going on. I don't see that getting a lot of mileage with the rules committee.
 
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Yeah that whole ineligible receiver thing was really odd, and I had never heard of that before.
 
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My brother and I have talked about this situation for years! My god it finally happened in a game. It boils down to putting a non-OL in as a lineman. That's why one has to declared ineligible basically saying you see that guy over there? He can't run a route. So the other 5 guys? Ya you need to cover them. Not fucking rocket surgery. What the Ravens defensive end should have done is blow up Vereen off the freaking snap and murder Brady. But they couldn't figure it out.

Chip Kelly does a similar thing by putting three lineman in the middle and splitting his tackles wide to either side. As long as the linemen are covering the edge they have a legal formation.
 
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Robert Baratheon_sl said:
It's a random dude on Reddit, so take that as you will...but a guy who was at the game claims they were announcing it every time when Vereen's eligibility status changed. It really seemed like Harbaugh expects the officials to slow down the snap or something until the defense figures out what's going on. I don't see that getting a lot of mileage with the rules committee.
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They do that for the defense already when the offense makes a substitution. The NFL historically is against trick plays so i wouldn't be surprised at all to see some sort of rule change come from this.
 
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I was at the game, I remember hearing Vereen being announced as ineligible. How many times did they do this?
 
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oh heard on the radio the other day, a lady wrote-and published,,,,a story,,,about gronk. i have not looked at it but i imagine,,it's porn...a gronking to remember(or something like that)...


well so far i am at 50% for the weekend..

pats won (barely)
panthers lost--good game though until the end
 
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Ozzie needs to get to work today on finding someone, anyone, to play secondary in 2015. Scoring 31 and losing is ridiculous.
 
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