SFbaybum":2fpcayez said:
I've been saying all year that these new "Roughing", "Helmet to helmet", "Targeting", etc sort of personal fouls are over the top and there is a good chance they could decide some team's fate in the playoffs.
While I obviously want the 9ers to win, I just don't want to look back and feel the refs took the game.... from either team. Last week, The 9ers Dan Skuta was flagged for a ridiculous roughing call on Cam Newton at crunch time (no pun intended). That call could have changed the game. Thankfully it did not.
Let's have a clean NFC Championship with no jawing, no personal fouls, no unsportsmanlike conducts & may the best team win.
Harbough does not agree with you. Unlike most people, I actually like Harbaugh. Perhaps not as a person, although i wouldn't know since I don't know the man. He is ackward from what I've seen, but so are a lot of people. The reason I like him is because he is smart when it comes to football. He doesn't just plan to beat you on the field, he plans to beat you everywhere with any means necessary.
An important overall strategy from Harbaugh has been his constant whining/crying regarding Seattle and their defense. That the Hawks D does not dominate based on play but rather based on cheating. They hold, they foul, they are the worst of the worst --according to Harbaugh. I've watched the Seahawks defense, and I've watched a lot of other Ds. This defense does not hold or pass interfere more than other teams. They all do it to some extent. The HAwks get away with it less than other teams. That's partly due to Harbaugh.
He has created a meme, a storyline. He has done it on purpose. The storyline has caught on over the last year. Despite the fact that there is no evidence to back it up! If you say something long enough, people will just accept it as truth --as long as it cannot be undeniably denied, and even in the case that it can be definitely disproven, it's not a guarantee that the people wont still accept it as truth.
The storyline was created, this meme was pushed by everyone and anyone --once the media caught on it blazed on fire. Now even Seahawk fans accept it as biblical truth. They don't question it, they accept it. Radio personalities, ESPN "analysts," everyone basically accepts the non-fact that the Seahawk defense holds over and over and over, and the refs just dont call them all.
This is bound to seep into the minds of the refs. They will be looking for it. On almost any play, you can see something which COULD be called. It's not black or white. And when you have an overriding meme in play, the refs subconscious is bound to let it affect them.
Harbaugh 1
Pete 0
Before the game is even played. And that's why I like Harbaugh.