christovas
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You'll be able to see from my account history that I rarely post, but something bothered me a lot about our lost to the Vikings and believe me, I never get hung up loses. The fact that a luke-warm team like the Vikings not only beat us, but trashed our league-leading rush defensive that was on an insane +40 game streak of keeping opposing running back to under <100. This had me scratching my head. I decided to watch the film and go watch some plays in slow motion and what i found shocked the hell out of me. First the takeaways: 1) Vikings are a bunch of dirty, filthy, cheating bastages. Scum. Never had anything against them, now i do. 2) The refs are clearly against us. If you doubt this, you're delusional and need to look at the film of that game like i just did. Statistically we've proven it, but if you have the chance to watch just the 1st quarter, you'll have more than enough proof.
What did I see?
First, you'll notice on every successful run, there is synchronized cut-blocking, or blocking below the waist (rule). It's not only an illegal move that carries a 15-yard penalty, it's been regarded by many as a very dirty play and many have seen season ending injuries as a result. Yes, i said SYNCHRONIZED. They were not only dumb enough to do it, but these idiots even did it in sync. Of course, they also got away with it over and over.
How often did I see this?
There were at least 10 in the first quarter alone. The plays where Cook gained +10 years, there were 2-4 lineman going straight for the knees of our Defensive Linemen. Our guys weren't pursuing, which we are VERY good at. They were trying to keep from snapping their ankles and knees. It was disgusting football to see these butt crevasses stoop to this level of play. When you see 3 dive for the knees, perfectly synchronized, it's impossible to make a case against it being intentional. Also, if they couldn't hit the knee or leg, they would simple fall in front of our players. I watched our guys, they were forking SAINTS, which P'Oed me off. This is football... If your opponent gets dirty, you get dirty. Some of the blame is on our coach.
What about the refs?
Wasn't hard to see, nor were the many holds. There was one 7-8 yard 1st down run by Cook and their lineman was literally holding two of our players (including Cam) with arms outstretched out like some Thor scene from Marvel movie (in front of the ref.) I originally didn't blame the refs for this lost for many reasons, mainly because our performance on the offensive side wasn't impressive. You could not ever convince me at this point the refs didn't see all these egregious violations of the rules. Vikings are scum, the refs are worse.
In summary, no we (the saints) did not lose the game and our players played good, clean playoff football and should be commended for it. I'm proud of them, but they needed to get dirty. We were cheated out of the game, but you can't completely blame the dirty -arse Vikings because refs were there looking straight at these plays. These Vikings wouldn't have broken 150 in combined offensive yards without most of those runs that were completely illegal as hell. That said, everything else was more or less Playoff football and by my definition clean, excluding the push off at the end. Outside of the runs, Vikings played clean ball. Regarding the last TD. I've seen video of it in 3 different speeds and multiple angles. That is a 100% OPI on the push-off. That is all.
What did I see?
First, you'll notice on every successful run, there is synchronized cut-blocking, or blocking below the waist (rule). It's not only an illegal move that carries a 15-yard penalty, it's been regarded by many as a very dirty play and many have seen season ending injuries as a result. Yes, i said SYNCHRONIZED. They were not only dumb enough to do it, but these idiots even did it in sync. Of course, they also got away with it over and over.
How often did I see this?
There were at least 10 in the first quarter alone. The plays where Cook gained +10 years, there were 2-4 lineman going straight for the knees of our Defensive Linemen. Our guys weren't pursuing, which we are VERY good at. They were trying to keep from snapping their ankles and knees. It was disgusting football to see these butt crevasses stoop to this level of play. When you see 3 dive for the knees, perfectly synchronized, it's impossible to make a case against it being intentional. Also, if they couldn't hit the knee or leg, they would simple fall in front of our players. I watched our guys, they were forking SAINTS, which P'Oed me off. This is football... If your opponent gets dirty, you get dirty. Some of the blame is on our coach.
What about the refs?
Wasn't hard to see, nor were the many holds. There was one 7-8 yard 1st down run by Cook and their lineman was literally holding two of our players (including Cam) with arms outstretched out like some Thor scene from Marvel movie (in front of the ref.) I originally didn't blame the refs for this lost for many reasons, mainly because our performance on the offensive side wasn't impressive. You could not ever convince me at this point the refs didn't see all these egregious violations of the rules. Vikings are scum, the refs are worse.
In summary, no we (the saints) did not lose the game and our players played good, clean playoff football and should be commended for it. I'm proud of them, but they needed to get dirty. We were cheated out of the game, but you can't completely blame the dirty -arse Vikings because refs were there looking straight at these plays. These Vikings wouldn't have broken 150 in combined offensive yards without most of those runs that were completely illegal as hell. That said, everything else was more or less Playoff football and by my definition clean, excluding the push off at the end. Outside of the runs, Vikings played clean ball. Regarding the last TD. I've seen video of it in 3 different speeds and multiple angles. That is a 100% OPI on the push-off. That is all.
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