Post Game: Green Bay defeats San Francisco 30-28

Watched the Adams hit a couple times again, it does look like Ward hits his chest first and helmet contact comes second. I still say that by the NFL's own "defenseless receiver" rules they should've called it, but generally speaking I'm in favor of keeping hits like that in the game (just wish the NFL would be consistent).
 
Positives:

I thought there was a decent chance for the Pack to be blown out in this one with all the key injuries. They hung in there and got a big road win against a 49ers team much better than last year’s injury riddled squad.

Negatives:

The coverage on that kick return at the end of the first half was so poor, it’s literally frightening. That return defense unit is a weakness so large, it will give the Pack a serious disadvantage in some of the close games they play this year if they can’t figure it out. It was pathetic and allowed the 49ers a relatively easy score to get back in the game.
 
Packinatl said:
The unpopular reality is you could call a hold on 90%+ of the snaps right now, as to push off, then eliminate hand fighting and we then get Arena Football scores, its bad enough already. Hell no different than the college game to be honest. To me the only "fix" is consistency and not just week to week but down by down.
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If the scoring gets out of hand you tweak a rule (or rules). Maybe give the defenders 10 yards to "chuck" receivers. They still can't grab or push off, though. Also, the rules must apply to receivers as well as defenders. No more free lunch for those guys.

The technology and the rules as written cannot coexist; we've proven this, time and time again. So we either update the rules to meet the technology or we dumb down the tech to meet the rules.

You can't show me 15 super-slow-mo angles in 4K definition and then tell me your only choice is to adjudicate the game by whatever a handful of old men can see in real time at eye level. I may not be the smartest vegetable in the garden, but I'm smarter than that.
 
The Unholy Turnip said:
If the scoring gets out of hand you tweak a rule (or rules). Maybe give the defenders 10 yards to "chuck" receivers. They still can't grab or push off, though. Also, the rules must apply to receivers as well as defenders. No more free lunch for those guys.

The technology and the rules as written cannot coexist; we've proven this, time and time again. So we either update the rules to meet the technology or we dumb down the tech to meet the rules.

You can't show me 15 super-slow-mo angles in 4K definition and then tell me your only choice is to adjudicate the game by whatever a handful of old men can see in real time at eye level. I may not be the smartest vegetable in the garden, but I'm smarter than that.
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If you give a professional WR 10 yards before contact just play flag football. It’s plain pitch and catch and final score 59-48 each weekend. It’s not a technology thing is just making calls consistent. The league changed the rules to emphasize scoring, people hated 14-10 games. So that gets us to today.
 
I didn't say give the WR 10 yards, I said give the defender 10 yards to disrupt the route and make the WR work. Or not. I'm not sure what tweaks would need to be made but I know what we have now doesn't work. I also know the more they try to fix it, the worse it gets.
 
The Unholy Turnip said:
If the scoring gets out of hand you tweak a rule (or rules). Maybe give the defenders 10 yards to "chuck" receivers. They still can't grab or push off, though. Also, the rules must apply to receivers as well as defenders. No more free lunch for those guys.

The technology and the rules as written cannot coexist; we've proven this, time and time again. So we either update the rules to meet the technology or we dumb down the tech to meet the rules.

You can't show me 15 super-slow-mo angles in 4K definition and then tell me your only choice is to adjudicate the game by whatever a handful of old men can see in real time at eye level. I may not be the smartest vegetable in the garden, but I'm smarter than that.
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No, you don't "tweak" the rules because a group of folks wants an exact outcome to each situation, the technology as you call it should have never been brought in, to begin with.

We don't need to change the core game because a bunch of whiny fans with a lack of knowledge can't grasp the simple concepts of the game.... move on to baseball or bowling or something but leave football the hell alone.

PS
The scoring getting out of hand has been handled at lower levels it's called running clock.
 
The Unholy Turnip said:
"Whiny fans." Blow me. What's next, You gonna tell me to get off your lawn? You may be fine with garbage... I'm not. There are far too many bad, blown, completely missed, game affecting calls every week that just don't have to be there anymore.

"I want to stay in the dark because we've been in the dark for a hundred years" just doesn't work for me.
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Even if rules and written in black and white there will always be a grey area for interpretation. Hell in baseball the strike zone is probably the most black and white rules in sports and get abused by umps daily. In the NBA what’s a foul, block or charge? All subjective but the rules are very black and white. NFL is no different. WR in a route and gets hand checked at 6 yds, rule says 5 but flag gets thrown. You can’t legislate that. In many cases it’s human error. I’m many cases it’s interpretation. You technically can call an offensive hold on 90% of the snaps.

The games need flow and right not excessive flags are ruining that. I don’t know what the answer is. It’s not tweaks or rewriting rules. Maybe it’s just as simple as holding officials accountable get tougher. Unfortunately the league does not want to get in the unions way on that one unless teams pressure them (not happening)
 
Here's one rule tweak - only the referee (who I believe is lined up behind the QB) is allowed to throw roughing the passer flags. The back judges and linesman have no business making those calls because they're seeing it from an angle that may look worse than it is.
 
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