I kind of agree; however, paradoxically, if you’re annoyed by those phrases, it indicates a big need to understand and explore the core concepts that those words point to, because once you can make those core concepts your own without the need for the words “mindfulness” and “being present,” your life will change for…

I started watching the NFL in 1983. I’m 41. I personally don’t agree that requiring MORE of the receiver than has been typically required in the past is a bad thing. I like “survive the ground” as a guiding principle for determining a catch. If a rule could be written in such a way that it takes all subjective…

Yeah, I understand that as well. There’s always going to be a subjective interpretation at some point in the process. Which, to be honest, is great job security for NFL officials. The call requires human judgement.

I wonder if they could ever move to having, like, three officials in NY that serve as the rulers on catch…

The reason I like the term “survive the ground” is because I think it’s a good interpretation of the unclear part of the rule, which says he has to maintain control “until after his initial contact with the ground.” (Which makes you say...ok...until how long after?)

Yeah, so I guess it comes down to what the individual understanding of the term “slight movement” is. How much movement can you tolerate before it becomes “more than slight”? I think that ball actually does almost half a rotation when it hits the ground. I think it’s more than slight, and I would always expect that to…

I appreciate that there’s room for debate on the James catch, but I think that at the same time he makes the catch he’s also started into the act of going to the ground, which means he’s gotta “Survive the ground.” It’s not a very common reading of the rule to say a player has become a runner without having taken any…

Emmanuel does not have control of that ball when it hits the ground. The ball totally changes position due to hitting the ground. That is not arguable. It’s very momentary...he goes from “control” to “not control” back to “control” in probably one-quarter of a second or less, but it doesn’t matter. He didn’t have…

The NFL could choose to employ “The eye test,” and leave it to the officials to determine when solid possession has been established by the receiver. That would still be in many cases a judgement call just like “survive the ground” is; if that were the rule, this play would have been a TD for James.

So you’re okay with the wrong call being allowed to stand if something happened on the field that wasn’t possible for an official to see? There are several examples every week of checking a TD to see if a player’s knee was down first, and officials are just about always allowed to get these calls right with replay in…

So...you want calls made based on incomplete information instead of the best possible information?

I think “survive the ground” is a pretty good and easy-to-understand standard that will always have some close ones that are up to a some subjective interpretation (as you say.)

Ok, so let’s say you’re a receiver in the end zone, you launch a 36-inch vertical to catch a ball against your chest, cradle it to your body mid-air, then body-slam back-first to the ground and the ball comes flying out. TD or No TD? You possessed the ball in mid-air, over the goal line, in bounds, then the ground…

“Going to the ground” does supersede “Football move.” He was going to the ground as part of the act of making the catch, so he had to survive the ground with possession fully intact, and he didn’t.

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You are absolutely full of shit that catch rules have caused a 90% decline in your NFL viewing.

A coach’s job is to eliminate guesswork, not create it.

If somehow this defector is any kind of step in the process toward bringing suffering to an end for the millions stuck in NK, then then it could be seen as a necessary step despite resulting in a burst of atrocities. But unfortunately we won’t know, probably ever, if it’s an action that leads to further action that…

I get why you chose “Sound of Silence” here. “Silence like a cancer growth” is one of the lines in the song, and Jerry Jones is like the human version of a cancer growth. Right? #alwaysanalyzing

“Marshawn gonna Marshawn” is not really adequate here, because whether it cheapens the other guys’ protests or whatever, whatever term you want to use, it has an impact on them.

It repulses me to even create the appearance of being aligned with Trump or his supporters, but I kind of feel like this was not the most well-thought-out move by Lynch, and it’s not unreasonable to have a discussion about what the fuck it means when two anthems are back to back and you stand for one but not the other.