kearly":3vctqd7o said:
I really hate how bowing to your home fans on the field is grounds for a potentially game altering penalty. To me, calling that penalty was a disgrace to the game. All the hard work hundreds of people put in, and it basically gets decided by something as innocuous as that.
I'm not a Duck fan obviously, but that really bugged me. I wonder how many people in that stadium knew that bowing was a penalty before they called it? They should let the players have some minimal freedom when it comes to emotional expression. It's an emotional game. Sometimes I think these rules are decided by people that never played themselves.
Couldn't agree more. These are kids and they're not getting paid (in theory). Let them celebrate the results of their efforts, as long as it's done with dignity and without disrespect for the opposition. Who was it a couple years back that lost a game because the scoring kid frikin' saluted the armed forces that were in attendance? And don't even get me started on the "excessive" Jake penalty vs. BYU a few years back. Sickening.
It's looking to me like the Raiders will end up winning the suck for the Duck lottery (gawd I wish this kid were a Dawg). So with Carr (whom despite his rookie struggles looks promising), Oakland is positioned to really right the ship (in theory). Someone is going to pay big for Mariota, despite the drama and egg-on-the-face the Griffin deal brought Washington. Mariota isn't Griffin and IMO worth 3 1sts to a team with an O-line and hurting for a QB. I think in that scenario, he will challenge our own RW in terms of impressive rookie year.
Like RW, but taller (lol) Mariota is humble and a student of the game and I anticipate him having the same success we are seeing with RW and Luck. I know some here disagree with that, but only time will tell...and of course, this all dependent on him surviving his Sr campaign at Oregon. If he were a lesser human, this would be a great time for him to pull a Clowney.
