First off, thank you for serving. You've always seemed to have a little bit of a hard-*** tone in your writing and now I get it, LOL. Second, you're talking about perception versus reality here. Sure, there's 3 or 4 people on this board who are disgruntled with Tua. But there's also hundreds of people that love him as our QB1. The same goes for the national media- Tua is the poster child of the NFL at the moment and most want to see him succeed. Yet, there's a select few that still criticize him and claim that he hasn't done anything special. In the social media world we live in today, every viewpoint is expressed in crazy detail. No matter what you believe, no matter how warped your thinking, there are others on the internet that share the same beliefs. Algorithms are made to show us what we love, not because these companies give a crap about us, but because the more you watch, the more ads they can show you and the better their metrics. I've heard professors argue that sites like Tik Tok are as addictive as crack cocaine, simply because every element on the site is to make you an addict. Don't accept the viewpoint that "they're all like this" because that's how the modern world trains us to think. Us vs them. Good vs evil. It's all hogwash and designed to cater to our egos while driving us apart. The reality is that the vast majority of NFL fans have a positive outlook on the Dolphins and Tua, regardless of the "who have they really played" narrative that's being pushed by the vast minority.
I've moved on but this video was in my YouTube feed. Curiously, the ineligible player downfield on the first Eagles TD isn't in the video.
Loads of videos circulating on the internet from fans of other teams, pointing out the potential rigged game. I just did a search and dozens came up. This is what started me off, appearing on my feed. Edit: Sorry, it's the same one as posted above. There are more though. See below https://www.tiktok.com/@xsportsnews/video/7293241282871414059
There’s no other explanation for it. Sometimes, calls are hard to make - quick hitting plays, a lot of bodies around the infraction, etc., but these are out in the open, tight in front of the refs in several cases. Somehow, I missed the clothesline on Long, but the refs shouldn’t have. What a disgrace.
I just had a thought. If you knew the refs were more likely to overlook penalties against your team, would you play differently? For example, would you grab someone's facemask and throw them to the ground right in front of a ref on the sidelines? Or would you horse-collar Tyreek on a TD pass? I think people believe that "something was up" not because of the penalties or the infractions, but how blazon they were in plain view. For the facemask, the defender was in position and could have made a play on the ball, or a play on the receiver. There was no reason to throw him to the ground by his facemask. It was just bewildering behavior.
I was just watching this and was going to post it. Just fueled my ire once again. The referees were so BLATANTLY biased. No fair minded, level headed person can dispute this.
I watched a couple different videos breaking down all the bad calls/missed calls. It's infuriating to watch so I'm going to move on to NE. But the thing that makes it worse is how the media is using this game to put down Miami as well as prop up Philly for shutting down Miami's offense. Hopefully we see them again in LV and taste sweet revenge.
The lack of our usually dominant run game was big factor for the loss against Philly. It is a big part of McDaniels’ scheme. He was a run game coordinator. We know how the run game opens up a lot for the passing game and I think even more so in this offense. When we have guys running that outside zone scheme, the defenders can’t clog the middle where Tua like to throw as well as clogging the passing lanes, etc. They have to stay outside for edge containment and even with that, our run game was still gashing trams for big chunks. They have to get the run game going again if they are going to continue to have the success the team was having. That is essential.
It would have been tough going with how good Philly’s DL is but missing our starting C and G made it that much more difficult
What determines who gets the special treatment in games? For example...Obviously I'm a die hard Fins fan. However, for the NBA I am a lifelong Philadelphia 76ers fan and they had their opening night last night in Milwaukee against the Bucks. In that game there were 5-6 just absolutely horrendous calls that should not have been made that went in favor of Milwaukee. Every Sixer fan who watched the game last night is crying about the refs and the piss poor job they did. How is it that for the NFL the Eagles are currently treated differently and yet for the NBA they are usually the ones getting robbed? Is it a player popularity thing? Ratings? What determines this? Is Jalen Hurts THAT popular of a player that the NFL wants to see him back in the Super Bowl? I'm never one to cry conspiracy, but favoritism (nepotism) certainly exists. I'm just trying to figure out how this all works, who gets the special attention, or if it even exists at all. I swear for every winning team, the losing side will cry about officiating as to why they lost. Doesn't matter the city. I remember New England losing to the Peyton Manning Broncos one year in the playoffs and ALL of New England was crying about the refs. With that being said, I saw countless times over the last 20 years where The Patriots were shown favoritism in a game on some BS call.
This is true. But I can think of a crooked blockheaded person who will swear there was nothing wrong.
I know you say that in jest but I do wonder what he does think of the horrible officiating not only in our game against the Eagles but the Colts and Browns. He needs to address it.
One of my best friends from the Marines is a huge Eagles fan. The morning after the game he wrote “Eagles definitely got help from the refs last night, which sucks, the game was a lot closer than the final score and if not for the refs I think we lose. Hate it for you bro.”
I was totally serious. I'm tired of every review of controversial calls in the NFL and NBA being excused based on the subjective nature of officiating. Sometimes, it's not subjective but you'll never hear Rodger Goodell or Adam Silver admit that for as difficult as officiating games is, sometimes their guys get it wrong. Let alone mention that they should do something to make sure it doesn't happen again. I'll bet we never hear anything about the plays McDaniel sent for review.
Go and look at the 1999 Rams season. Here, I’ll do you a favor. https://www.pro-football-reference.com/teams/ram/1999.htm
In the Eagles game they had a guy from PA doing it and he had been suspended for the same thing earlier in career
