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  1. Merrith

    2019 NFL Post Season Thread - Rams vs. Patriots for SuperBowl

    Please show me where a few random comments about Vereen having a decent game in a SB is "all you guys" trying to make Edelman out to be some shit tier player, though. This just seems like crying over most people agreeing he's been a very good player but nowhere near HoF for his career and...
  2. Merrith

    2019 NFL Post Season Thread - Rams vs. Patriots for SuperBowl

    FWIW...Vereen caught 11 balls in that game. Pretty crazy for RB. Like James White catching 15 or however many he had against the Chargers.
  3. Merrith

    2018-19 NHL Season Thread - Caps were not suck last year edition

    Calgary will get a nice boost playing us out of the All Star break, that'll be the game Ovechkin sits out for missing it.
  4. Merrith

    2019 NFL Offseason: Chargers Started Early

    Inside the Browns' front office, where hope and history collide Lot of backstory at the start, but man when you get down to the Manziel draft, how many times did we talk about them fucking up that draft with 2 1st round picks, and this lays it out that their GM at the time (who never even...
  5. Merrith

    2018-19 NHL Season Thread - Caps were not suck last year edition

    Given some of the other chances last night, should have been a few more, too.
  6. Merrith

    2019 NFL Post Season Thread - Rams vs. Patriots for SuperBowl

    TO can be a piece of trash...not getting into the Hall on his first ballot was stupid as fuck. TO's stats on another level from Carter's.
  7. Merrith

    2018-19 NHL Season Thread - Caps were not suck last year edition

    Lightning are probably on their "bye week" in conjunction with the All Star break.
  8. Merrith

    91st Academy Awards - Hoping to be the most woke Academy Awards ever!

    I feel like they sleep on the animated stuff like Incredibles 2 and Spiderverse...they're both up for Best Animated film and it's almost like they consider that "their" category and unless it's absolutely exceptional they'll just leave it at that and not put them up for Best Picture
  9. Merrith

    91st Academy Awards - Hoping to be the most woke Academy Awards ever!

    Wonder if it works for anyone. For me I'm generally looking at the list and you're talking 3 movies in discussion for actually winning, and a bunch of ballot fillers.
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    91st Academy Awards - Hoping to be the most woke Academy Awards ever!

    The backlash over BP nomination is a little odd to me. Don't they always throw in a couple of nominations into Best Picture now that people are like "really?" about? Especially since they expanded it where it can be up to something like 10 films now? Think it's weirder they basically...
  11. Merrith

    2019 NFL Post Season Thread - Rams vs. Patriots for SuperBowl

    Only twice in the last 10 years have losing record teams in the NFC made the playoffs: 2014 Panthers who were 7-8-1, and 2010 Seattle who were 7-9. Both were division winners. Denver won their division in the AFC with an 8-8 record in 2011. Ironically, I think all 3 of these teams won at...
  12. Merrith

    2018-19 NHL Season Thread - Caps were not suck last year edition

    It's funny b/c if you looked at this game by itself, everyone would note a couple of weird goals, they get the tying goal with 1 second left. But when you've lost 6 in a row the whispers will start. Was nice to see some guys break some slumps offensively, I guess. Holtby hasn't looked very...
  13. Merrith

    2019 NFL Post Season Thread - Rams vs. Patriots for SuperBowl

    This shit is amusing as fuck. A judgment call by officials. Had not seen what happened. It's what cracks me up when Rams fans point to a few potential face masks where masks were barely grabbed/touched (although still a penalty by the rules) as some sort of "well there were a lot of missed...
  14. Merrith

    2019 NFL Post Season Thread - Rams vs. Patriots for SuperBowl

    Incoming "he takes the air out of balls so less fumbles happen" comments
  15. Merrith

    2019 NFL Post Season Thread - Rams vs. Patriots for SuperBowl

    Lets be honest though, I know it's in the in thing on FB and social media to bash Rodgers and his contract but watching the two Conference Championship games this weekend...you know what I didn't see any of? Kickers missing ANY kicks, and no lost fumbles. When your former Pro Bowl kicker...
  16. Merrith

    2019 NFL Post Season Thread - Rams vs. Patriots for SuperBowl

    Actually if you think about it over the same time period as those 49ers and Redskins teams you talk about, you had the Bears who were great for a couple years, Parcells' Giants who won 2 Super Bowls during this time as well. NFC was a murderer's row from ~'80 to ~'95. But doing what they're...
  17. Merrith

    2019 NFL Post Season Thread - Rams vs. Patriots for SuperBowl

    Does sound like league is going to look again at being able to review penalties of some sort. I'm sure this will raise enough bitching to actually get something changed...but who knows.
  18. Merrith

    2019 NFL Post Season Thread - Rams vs. Patriots for SuperBowl

    I was specifically talking about essentially 2001-now, during the same time frame as the Patriots dynasty, but yeah the fact you have to go that far back to find anything comparable/more successful (although many many less teams and no salary cap), is amazingly impressive. The fact that the...
  19. Merrith

    2019 NFL Post Season Thread - Rams vs. Patriots for SuperBowl

    Not very comparable, really. Unless Shula had resigned and went to coach college shortly after Marino's SB appearance, along with half of the team's stars retiring/etc in a complete collapse of basically the entire franchise. Was actually thinking about this when reading the stats of Pats' 8th...
  20. Merrith

    2019 NFL Post Season Thread - Rams vs. Patriots for SuperBowl

    I hate this quote, though. Idea behind it is some marginal call you'd be relying on in order to win. Sometimes everything is going to come down to one play, and it would be great if everyone involved played it legally and it was just down to whether the athletes on the field were able to make...
  21. Merrith

    2019 NFL Post Season Thread - Rams vs. Patriots for SuperBowl

    I'm okay with them keeping the "penalty" challenge if they get it right. Not to say I've completely lost faith in NFL officiating...but wouldn't shock any of us if they blew multiple calls of this magnitude in one game at this point.
  22. Merrith

    2019 NFL Offseason: Chargers Started Early

    This actually sounds very plausible.
  23. Merrith

    2019 NFL Post Season Thread - Rams vs. Patriots for SuperBowl

    I still think we're getting a great Super Bowl, I mean that was a lock before the games even started, imo. It's just fun to think of the other combos we almost could (or should) have had in Brees v. Brady, or Goff v. Mahomes.
  24. Merrith

    2019 NFL Post Season Thread - Rams vs. Patriots for SuperBowl

    That's my point, granted I was out all day for the games yesterday watching at a bar, so I didn't get to read/catch up on the real time posts in here when it happened. I'm just betting if roles were reversed, you would have had a pretty bad meltdown over it...justifiably, too.
  25. Merrith

    2019 NFL Offseason: Chargers Started Early

    Didn't a bunch of Eagles come out today and say this was basically bs? I'm not sure which is actually better though, team with internal turmoil over the Wentz/Foles debate or Philly media actually sabotaging their own team.
  26. Merrith

    2019 NFL Post Season Thread - Rams vs. Patriots for SuperBowl

    Rams are a great team, and there's every chance if they have home field (although LOL LA fans) they win a game against the Saints by a couple scores. But LOL when refs fuck up a call that badly every single person watching the game would have done a better job on that play.
  27. Merrith

    2019 NFL Post Season Thread - Rams vs. Patriots for SuperBowl

    I agree 100% it should be greater than a few extra minutes...I can just see tons of scenarios where it isn't some blatantly missed call, and we then end up with a potentially even worse scenario, coaches challenging plays that are just so minor one way or the other judgement calls. Shit might...
  28. Merrith

    2019 NFL Post Season Thread - Rams vs. Patriots for SuperBowl

    The air from the hand coming down might have brushed his facemask. It wasn't close, and it was just a terrible call that Brady got because he's Brady. Agreed it wasn't AS bad as the Saints call, just because it didn't occur as late/in a situation where it virtually would have set up the ending...
  29. Merrith

    2019 NFL Post Season Thread - Rams vs. Patriots for SuperBowl

    Just worry how much this will slow the game down. Honestly the Pats/Chiefs game took so long in the 4th quarter already with the reviews they had of the potential fumble on the punt and the couple catches they had to look at again. I do agree though that there has to be a way for penalties as...
  30. Merrith

    2019 NFL Post Season Thread - Rams vs. Patriots for SuperBowl

    Honestly none of this makes up for how big of a blown call that was. Not just for the obvious right there everyone is looking at it, but the situation as well. 3rd and 10, call would give them a 1st down with ~1:45 and Rams only with 1 timeout. You literally run it 3 times and kick a field...
  31. Merrith

    2019 NFL Post Season Thread - Rams vs. Patriots for SuperBowl

    Considering if your palm even hits Brady in the chest it's a 15 yard flag to help extend a drive...might not want to be hitting Brady too much.
  32. Merrith

    2019 NFL Post Season Thread - Rams vs. Patriots for SuperBowl

    So...that uncalled PI for the Saints, and that hilariously bad "roughing the passer" called against the Chiefs. Amazing.
  33. Merrith

    Give kudos to an actor you can't stand

    I don't consider Cena an "actor", not really, yet. As for Keanu, I heard that his total gross he "made" for the Matrix movies was something over $100 Million, yet donated like $85 million of that to the special effects people that worked on the movies because he felt they're the ones who really...
  34. Merrith

    Give kudos to an actor you can't stand

    Damn. That's perfect.
  35. Merrith

    Give kudos to an actor you can't stand

    I understand it's the company line around here, but there's plenty of examples of ones who aren't. Shit you ever read/hear the stories about Keanu? Dude's a fucking saint basically.
  36. Merrith

    Give kudos to an actor you can't stand

    Like as a person or as an actor? I think Tom Cruise is weird as fuck, but I'll watch him act in movies as long as he does 'em pretty much.
  37. Merrith

    Give kudos to an actor you can't stand

    Read lots of weird stories that he had a bit of an ego at times on Home Improvement, plus how could you not love Richard Karn over him on Tool Time. Also should have mentioned Galaxy Quest, classic.
  38. Merrith

    Give kudos to an actor you can't stand

    Tim Allen, any of the Toy Story movies.
  39. Merrith

    True Detective

    I definitely was trying to give it some credit, until it got terribad. My main issue was that some of the complaints were on a level that was even dumber than how bad the show actually was. Crying about why the cops would be waiting for Ray at his kid's school (the most obvious place they...
  40. Merrith

    2019 NFL Offseason: Chargers Started Early

    They have Wilson, so guessing it's b/c he'll be cheap as fuck as a backup