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Originally Posted by stevieray
To a certain degree they all are responsible.
You can call holding on every play...why?
You can call DPI on almost every play...why?
You could call OPI on almost every play...why?
Because the players are cheating. Why? Because they don't want to get beat.
Nobody is telling these players to play within the rules, and risk getting your ass kicked.
Therefore, these calls, especially at crucial points, will ALWAYS swing games and and determine winners and losers.
That defensive stand at the goal line was a thing of beauty, and regardless that it RARELY happens, meant nothing.
It's not the loss that hurts so much, its the integrity of the game being sold down the river.
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I'm not sure it just lost its integrity, that cherry got popped many moons ago. From changing rules to protect QBs but never limiting what the QB can do in order to stay healthy, to changing rules to get scores much higher, to having different standards for what constitutes a hold of a WR vs a pass rusher, the league's integrity wasn't much higher that the average street walker's morality.
But hey, we keep watching. Basically we're enablers.