NFL Gameday Week 3 [Archived] Football • Page 20

Rodgers has been sacked five times

In the first half

 

I mean, it's willfully ignorant to pretend racist white people arent calling people of color "punks" and "thugs" constantly without justification. Like, it's a thing. Even if Sherman's hit warrants criticism.

 

right on time.

 

punk is not a racially specific term

please stop. we dont need this.

 

Every year I expect to be heartbroken in a new way by the rules against the Lions, and today was that game

The runoff rule is so dumb. Stafford could’ve easily gotten them back to the line. He’s done it before in that amount of time to win a game.

 

The defense was great in the first two games. Didn't expect it to hold up against a team with a real QB.

 

definitely. it's a dumb rule because if the play wasn't reviewed they would've gotten another play off. It's not as if the rule on the field was no TD and the Lions challenged or something.

The lions got screwed by the refs making a certain call and getting overruled. Why should the lions get penalized for thaT?

 

Exactly. The team literally covered 27 yards in 7 seconds last year to get a snap off. They easily would’ve gotten it today. It’s an idiotic rule.

 

I have seen the reports-of people I’ve never seen in the sports forum before-and would like to say:

A) No one used the term thug. So no idea why that was brought into the conversation. But yes, we should refrain from using thug for its racial undertones.

B) I don’t really see any connection between punk and being a racial insult. Any connotation of punk I have in my mind, which I admit may be off, is white if associated to any race at all. Again, may be off, but this feels like it was read too far into because:

C) Sherman is an extremely intillegent man who also happens to be an extremely talented and consistently dirty player. The fact he’s also black makes any critique of him racially charged if misread at any level.

Dude made an illegal, dirty hit. He should be called out for those actions and held responsible for them. Some of you see punk as a racist way of doing that. Others do not. It’s not an obvious word in the way that so many other slurs are.

Be nicer to one another. Belittling—going both ways—doesn’t really inspire anyone to change.

 

Keenan Allen has the pubiest beard I have ever seen.

 

People actually reported his post calling him a "punk"? Lol.

 

I can hear that connection and might be something they say, but I don’t think it’s inherently linked to a racial undertone. It certainly doesn’t set my radar off like “thug” does, but I also don’t have that lanaguage directed at me as a white person so maybe I just don’t understand.

 

If Tyler had called him a thug, then I think this pant shitting event is very much warranted.

He did not. I can't believe we are even having this discussion.

 

I could see how someone would side eye that.

But then again white folks always do things worth side eyeing.

 

Punk may also be a regional thing as opposed to a more universal/national word. Language is weird and organic that way sometimes.

The few people I know that even use the word punk outside of a music sense use it solely as a term of endearment to someone who just made fun of them.


Thread related: nice touchdown pass there by Mariota

 

Terrible sack for Dalton to take. Had time to get rid of the ball & had Boyd open.

 

Fat kicker strikes again

 

How is THAT not PI on the Titans?

 

God the Seahawks offense is awful.

 

...and I am HERE for it.

 

Murray looked awesome on that play. Dem cuts.

 

I benched murray this week but I'm okay with that. Seeing that sorta run should help make sure he continues to be a focal point of the offense

 

Oh Jessus fucking Christ.