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Have we talked about this Reuters report?
Posted on 3/29/12 at 3:26 pm
Posted on 3/29/12 at 3:26 pm
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Even though we didn't have the most violent penalties, because our defense was less penalized we are the violent ones.
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- In a 2011 season in which the New Orleans Saints rewarded players for injuring opponents in a "pay-for-pain" bounty scheme, the team was among the most violent in the National Football League, a Reuters analysis shows.
Even though we didn't have the most violent penalties, because our defense was less penalized we are the violent ones.
Posted on 3/29/12 at 3:26 pm to lighter345
Reuters? What the hell do they know about American football???
Posted on 3/29/12 at 3:30 pm to lighter345
perception IS reality folks.
Repeat something enough and people will believe it.
Joseph Goebbels would be proud.
Repeat something enough and people will believe it.
Joseph Goebbels would be proud.
Posted on 3/29/12 at 3:32 pm to lighter345
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The analysis suggests other teams in the league may have systems, an ethos, or playing styles that encouraged violent rule-breaking. And it all comes amid a 70 percent surge in violent penalties in the NFL since 2008.
Did it never occur to them that refs might just be throwing more and less consistently?
Posted on 3/29/12 at 3:50 pm to Hoodoo Man
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70 percent surge in violent penalties in the NFL since 2008
To bad hem reuters hasn't heard that the NFL is cracking down on certain types of hits by flaging the shite out of teams to change the way the game is played.
Kinda leads to more flags roiders.
Posted on 3/29/12 at 4:08 pm to lighter345
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Even though we didn't have the most violent penalties, because our defense was less penalized we are the violent ones.
More violations per play is a better indicator than the overallnumber of penalties.
Posted on 3/29/12 at 6:09 pm to shel311
I remember reading (it may have been in that pdf document from the NFL) about the Saints ranking in the top 5 for unnecessary roughness penalties - or something like that. Obviously they were not #1, or I am sure that would have been pointed out. Are they doing to investigate any of the other 5 teams? Seems it is all about the Saints, and everyone else just gets a free pass.
Posted on 3/29/12 at 6:21 pm to Hoodoo Man
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Did it never occur to them that refs might just be throwing more and less consistently?
Nope, that would make too much sense.
Posted on 3/29/12 at 6:25 pm to goatmilker
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Kinda leads to more flags roiders.
and...
Posted on 3/29/12 at 8:27 pm to lighter345
Did Reuters talk about how many yellow cards the saints got last year? Horrifying.
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