[you]Did the giants do any excessive celebrating on their touchdowns?
No.
[you]Dallas is one of the most penalized teams in the NFL especially the Rex zone.
Yes because they keep doing stupid things, and Wade encourages it (he likes a team with passion) and doesn’t punish it. Every year of the Wade era the Cowboys average penalties per game goes up. That’s called a trend, a very bad trend.
[you]How many times has flozell Adams been called for holding now that he plays for the 5-1 steelers?
Not as often because the Steelers coaching staff won’t out up with it.
[you]Penalties play a huge role in the pro wrestling of sports the NFL.
There’s nothing pro-wrestling about enforcing the rules. It’s not the NFL’s fault that the Cowboys can’t do simple things like not act like idiots after a score, and not hit a guy out of bounds.
[you]The cowboys are as good as the Detroit lions?
Frankly at this point the Cowboys are worse. The Lions at least have a positive point differential.
It’s not the league’s fault the Cowboys are an undisciplined team with no leadership on or off the field. The league didn’t make their defense whiff on tackle after tackle. The Cowboys have earned their stink the old fashioned way: by playing lousy football.
The Lions are going to kick their you-know-whats when they come down here, the Lions are improving, the defense with Suh is starting to gel, and Jahvid Best may be the offensive Rookie of the Year.
I have a different set of answers for those questions.
I am a pretty big Steelers fan so I watch a lot of Flozell and he has not gotten better or more disciplined. The refs just don’t call holding when he plays for the steelers. Holding has always been an ‘artful’ call in the NFL. I personally think Troy Aikman should be able to bring a bodily injury suit against NFL referees. There is a reason he is out while Favre is still in.
All kinds of creative calls are put against the Cowboys such as offensive pass interference that one rarely sees on other teams. The more I watch the Bengals, Titans, Texans and other games I see the differences in how the games are called.
Cowboy defense and offense are actually pretty highly rated in the NFL but the key ingredient is penalties. Everyone says ‘stupid penalties,’ but it wears thin with me. A key Giant touchdown last night had two blocks in the back by the Giants in clear view of multiple replays but the three announcers gloated about the domination of the Giants offense.
That play along with helmet to helmet hits on the Dallas quarterback replacement suggest that the game is critically defined by penalties— including the ones not called. Almost every aspect of the NFL is critiqued and long rants about players, coaches, management are not only tolerated but encouraged.
I challenge the legitimacy of the ‘most penalized team’ truth. The games are not called well. It would be good to see in the vast parsing of stats the NFL listing penalties per player. Let’s see more discussion of non-calls.
Dallas lost by 6 points last night. Once again, despite three rather major injuries, the Cowboys were well in position to win but no.
I think Dallas does make penalty errors. I don’t think they deserve to be the most penalized team and I question the legitimacy of that in the NFL’s conduct and control of this sport.