(12-30-2015, 05:44 AM)bengalhoel Wrote: It is so funny how they say people are dirty players now on ESPN, CBS, ..... etc , yet they glorify all of the old players, especially the old steel curtain players. I believe Burfict earns these flags to some degree but at the same time that was a chicken shit call at the end of a playoff like game.

(12-30-2015, 05:44 AM)bengalhoel Wrote: It is so funny how they say people are dirty players now on ESPN, CBS, ..... etc , yet they glorify all of the old players, especially the old steel curtain players. I believe Burfict earns these flags to some degree but at the same time that was a chicken shit call at the end of a playoff like game.

(12-30-2015, 03:25 PM)BengalYankee Wrote:

(12-30-2015, 03:25 PM)BengalYankee Wrote:

(12-29-2015, 07:49 PM)bfine32 Wrote: You might want to rephrase that

(12-30-2015, 05:30 PM)PApinhead Wrote: Mean Joe Greene was the best ever and my favorite player of all time!!!  Even though I am a Bengals fan, Mean Joe was just awesome. 

(12-30-2015, 03:22 PM)Nate (formerly eliminate08) Wrote: Exactly, Burfict plays just like all the "Great players of old."

But in today's NFL he is a "dirty "

(12-30-2015, 06:19 PM)GreenCornBengal Wrote: I didn't read any of the comments or anything on this thread but want to say that that call was NOT BS

Burfict was stupid. It was the borderline for personal foul.. it could have been overlooked, but cmon Burfict, you know the refs are looking for anything and everything on you.

Love Burfict, but its too often that his penalties hurt us.

(12-30-2015, 02:34 PM)wildcats forever Wrote: This is just old-school gamesmanship, stuff that happened on a regular basis back in the 50's thru 70's especially. Right/wrong/indifferent, it got under the opponents skin w/o really hurting anybody. More shenanigan-like than "dirty football". What it does to some weaker-minded players is rile them up to the point where they want to actually hurt somebody in retaliation.

Since then there's been a watchdog for just about every action, and technology has cameras from every angle that records it now. Burfict should be smart enough to know this, act accordingly, and put his team first. With his talent, playing excellent football within the rules will definitely be good enough.

(12-29-2015, 03:36 PM)Bengalholic Wrote: “The refs, they obviously have it out for me, but you can’t call a bulls--- flag like that at the end of the game,” Burfict said. “He looked at my number and then threw it.”

“The refs were late to blow whistles all night, and they threw the flag late,” Burfict said. "Once the dude [Green] flopped, the ref looked at me and seen it was my number and then threw the flag. I can’t control that. Just keep playing football.”

-SI.com

(12-29-2015, 04:34 PM)Rattler Wrote: If you act like a effin' stooler thug and put yourself in the position to draw a stupid flag, you'll draw a stupid flag.

Come on Taz, use your head!

(12-30-2015, 01:10 AM)CageTheBengal Wrote: I couldn't watch the game so I can't comment on this particular play but it does seem like the NFL will target some players. Regardless of who or what you're talking about each play should be fairly judged individually. Meaning it doesn't matter if the player has a bad rep or not a legal play is legal the refs shouldn't be looking at names or numbers or have an eye on a particular guy over the play in general.

That's the only way for it to be unbiased. Maybe Burfict plays dirty on the field but then the play should do all the talking not someone's rep.

(12-31-2015, 11:41 AM)SHRacerX Wrote: Now, I have to admit, I was as big a flip-flopper as a politician when James Harrison came to the Bengals.  I love that guy's intensity.  But last week, against the Ratbirds, he went in low (and had no one on him) and drilled Mallet in the knees.  I think Mallet's height saved him, meaning the hit actually hit him in the shins.  The Rats were winning, and you could sense the growing confidence, and that hit was as deliberate a shot as I have ever seen in the NFL.  1000 times worse than what Burfict got on whineyburger.  I think there was a flag, and Mallet was limping, but played the rest of the game...and actually played very well.  

No articles about the hit.  No fines.  No big deal.  Why?  Because it was Mallet as the fourth string QB on a 4 win team.

That bias is what I hate most about the NFL.  Marvin Jones was blatantly held early in the game...no flag.  If that was OBJ, Antonio Brown, or ANY patriot, you wouldn't be able to see any green on the field.  Flags would be everywhere.  

Until the league starts addressing these actions ACROSS THE BOARD, they will not stop.  And yes, Bellicheat, I am talking to you and your scumbucket crack-back offense.  

(01-01-2016, 12:25 AM)TheLeonardLeap Wrote: Honestly, the refs were pretty awful all around, but the biggest awfulness came in favor for the Bengals (this is coming from a Bengals fan).

When they set the ball and the Bengals lined up for the next snap before then FINALLY calling a penalty for a facemask? Yeah, that's BS. If that happened to the Bengals rather than for the Bengals, I would have been enraged, so it was awful. Then combine that with the McCarron fumble challenge (that should have been ruled a fumble, but was ruled an inomplete pass) was also awful. It was a fumble, even though I was hella happy that it wasn't ruled as such, even though it became meaningless when he fumbled it again anyway.

(01-01-2016, 12:44 AM)BengalsRocker Wrote: What about the Dre K tripping no call that was plain as day in full view.

I remember watching it in real time and thought it was going to get called.

After watching the game again I don't know how it didn't.

Maybe the rule is more specific than I thought.  He did grab the WR first.

Watch the 17:50 mark.  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MxXg9vaH2aw&feature=player_embedded

(01-01-2016, 01:02 AM)TheLeonardLeap Wrote: Actually didn't catch that when I watched the game. I think it probably straddled the line between okay and not okay, which if they can't prove intent, is good for Kirkpatrick. Didn't even see that until just now.