do you  agree that it is extremely hard to  win in football w/ 3-5 turnovers?
925794
I think the Pats are getting some bad calls. I'm not a Pats fan but some of these calls are like the Colts are playing.
1166360
You obviously have never played the game.  Our football is the ultimate team game.  There are 11 guys on each team on the field at a time.  If one guy doesn't do his job right, their whole team suffers.  The game is a combination of intelligence, strategy, finesse, strength, and power.  \n\nWhat makes this sport stand out is that each position is extremely specialized.  Whereas in other sports, many guys can play different positions, in American football each player has a much more specific role and is detrimental to his team.\n\nThe quarterbacks have to be very intelligent as well as talented.  They have to be able to read the entire defense (11 guys, mind you) and try to figure out who is blitzing, who is covering what receiver, and who is playing a zone.  \n\nThe runningbacks combine speed, finesse, and power.  They are the workhorses.\n\nThe receivers have speed and great hands.\n\nThe offensive linemen aren't your traditional "skill" players.  They have to learn how to use their size to their advantage.\n\nThe defensive ends are some of the most impressive players, because they are surprisingly fast for their size.  Line backers have to be pretty aware of the entire field.  Cornerbacks have to be fast, and able to shadow a receiver's every move.   Safeties act as the defense's last hope.  \n\nBut, no matter how skillful the players on a team are, they won't win many games without a good coach.  This is where the games are really won.  It is a game of strategy, and the coaches have to keep one step ahead of their opponent.  This sport has more trick plays than any other game.  I think that is one element that makes the sport so popular here - the element of surprise.  You never, ever know what is going to happen on each play.\n\nAs for the place kickers and punters wearing pads...If you had 11 guys, all of whom nearly twice their size using all their might to come after you, when you have no way to defend yourself, are you saying you wouldn't wear padding?  If you don't, you are pretty masochistic.
685408
Not likely.  People seem to enjoy fighting over football as much as fighting over anything else.
907485
It's unfair.  People blame the general of the army when it loses in battle, fair or not.\n\nHe's just a part of the problem.  Their wide receivers, save Crumpler are dreadful.  Denver was all too happy to trade Lelie for Javon Walker.\n\nThe O-line has fallen apart.  Some of it is scheme, and some of it is personnel, but they can't run-block or pass-lock very well right now.\n\nForcing some version of the West Coast offense is doomed to fail.  They don't play enough to his strengths.  This is a coaching problem.\n\nThe defense is crippled by injuries.  I mean, wow.  How many guys can one team lose on one side of the ball.\n\nLast, he's not great at reading defenses.  Defenses are picking on his tendencies.
1022394
NO I DONT AGREE WITH YOU 100 PERCENT BUT TO A BIT EXTENT....\nSEE WHY\nBEACUSE WE CAN WIN SOMETIME  WHEN WE DONT AFRIAD TOLOSE BUT CAN WIN ALSO WHEN WE AFRAID OF LOSE ASWELL WE CAN WIN TOO WITHOUT ANY HARDWROK BUT BY OUR GUDLUCK
687198
Well the rules are simple one team is on offense and the other is on defense, the team on offense has 4 tries to move the ball 10 yards, all the way to the end of the field if they get it there its a touchdown, now the penalties and other small rules are much more complex so if you want info on those you must specify the situation.  As far as etiquette goes there is very little since football is a violent violent game.
748063
I AM A FRIGGIN FOOTBALL GOD BOW TO ME. (LOL) seriously thoughj a tight end has to run fast and be able to be nimble on their feet. They have to be able to cover their man.
280167
Just keep it simple,dont try and do too much,your part of a team after all. A 5 yard pass to a team mate is better than a 40 yard pass to an opponent. \nBest advice i was ever given,ENJOY THE GAME
121285
Although some of the calls were questionable, you have to play the game well enough to win.  If the Seahawks played the entire game like they did in the 1st qtr, they would have had a lead that no questionable call could have changed the outcome.
64264
A turnover is when you lose possession of the ball to the opposing team, so it is very bad to have a turnover.
1025316
personally, i prefer the fancy footwork goals.  with short passes and a player beating the keeper for a close easy goal.  but i concede that the 35 yard shots ala Lahm, Frings, and today Joe Cole are sick.  They are more impressve but not as excitng.  in the end though, a goal is goal is a goal.  leave it to the announcers, but i am sure the players dont care.
885055
its only that we are not used to losing, what with playing the whole season in 2003-04 season without losing a game! ha ha ha! and we play attractive football too!
1186253
do you belive that THE REFS SUCK
423841
I hate to lose, especially if you lose in pk's because you know you had the game in the grasp of your hands, and then lossing. That sucks. Trust me I know What it feels like to mis a goal and lose the game for your team. I think I would hate a tie even more because you have no winner, and I think thats lame. By the way, I play high school soccer at Berkmar in Georgia. Im a starting Fresman, which I think is pretty good. Well whatever, lossing sucks!!!!!!
981956
I've felt the exact same thing for about a year now.\n\nThe problem with the NFL now versus 20 years ago is that offensive systems have become so complex that only a few quarterbacks can learn them, and even they must have plays called from the sidelines.  (The last NFL quarterback to call his own plays - for the whole game - was Jim Kelly.  Nobody else has since the early 1980s.)  \n\nOf course, quarterbacks no longer calling their own plays is an *absolutely* *unrelated* to the 40 second play clock instituted during that decade.... (Yeah, right!)\n\nHaving quarterbacks who alternate based on the series and situation is a good idea.  There are many benefits to it:\n\n1) Injuries.  When 50-80% of players use steroids and HGH, having two game-ready quarterbacks is a good thing.  In the last decade, nearly half the NFL's starting quarterbacks in any given year missed games due to injury.  That never happened in the 1960s, 1970s, or even the 1980s.\n\n2) Less to learn.  Quarterbacks who have lots of talent but not the ability to learn more complex systems could thrive.  (If anybody is thinking "Jimmy the Greek" or "Rush Limbaugh" crap about black QBs, please kill yourself.  There are more white QBs by percentage who wash out than blacks.)  Improvisational players could get by on talent in ways that they can't now.\n\n3) Versatlity.  Very few players can do everything well.  Switching QBs could force defenses to switch personnel, leading to more defensive lapses and penalties just by changing one offensive player.\n\n4) Play calling.  Why have a receiver bring in one play at a time or use hand or radio signals and risk miscommunication, when an offensive coordinator could send in a QB with 5-10 plays at a time, enough for 1-2 sets of downs?  There would be less mistakes, and as they say in hockey, "fresh legs" because the player catches his breath.\n\n5) Defensive hell.  Marv Levy once talked about using Jim Kelly at QB and Doug Flutie at halfback and the havoc it could have caused defenses, this during the years of the "Ace" formation with one running back, Thurman Thomas and three wide receivers.  (He never tried it because Bills' management wouldn't let him.)  Just imagine having two capable passers on the field at once, one of them capable of running or receiving as well.  If Pittsburgh had used Neil O'Donnell and Cordell Stewart in this way, maybe both of them could have had great careers.\n\n\n.
777347
I am definitely against this rule.  The techs are getting way out of hand.  It's as if the officials don't want the players to express emotions, as if they were machines.  The emotion is what makes games exciting!!  I can understand the loud, obnoxious whining on every call, but they give techs for just reacting on a call u don't like!!  And I hope they don't give these quick techs in th playoffs.  I actually think these quick techs are hindering the game more than the complaining is.
646160
I like footaball...Its a great sport has pagentry, teamwork and stradegy...I think it's a beautiful game ...its probably the greatest game as far as teamwork is concerned if one person blows an assignment the play is usualy a loss coaches and player work together strategicly to make each play work the same for the defense..It usually doesnt matter that 10 did there job to perfection one man can blow the entire play..or one bad call from the coach...its an entire unit working for the good of the team..I think there nothing greater than watching a team that is down makeing a comeback with the collective will of the team refuseing to lose...just a great sport there is none like it.