Comments on: Jerry Jones thinks kneel-downs should be banned

By: ihaterogergoodell

ihaterogergoodell — Tue, 25 Sep 2012 02:09:01 +0000

In other news, nobody cares what Jerry thinks.

By: hatersweargreen

hatersweargreen — Mon, 24 Sep 2012 20:14:09 +0000

jazz11001 says: Sep 18, 2012 10:15 PM

There are no “Gimmes” in Football. In golf the ball must hit the cup before you’re out. Imagine in Baseball if the last batter kept one foot out of the box and let you pitch strikes? If the league allows it then they should just call the game at 90 seconds if you have 3 timeouts. Dont make me sit through it. You Play until the whistle no exceptions no etiquette BS and you sure as heck don’t fake a spike and then expect that in the last 3 seconds taking a knee someone shouldn’t come after you. Jerry is right.

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actually in golf your opponent in match play is allowed to concede a gimme putt to you if it’s a very very short putt.

and in baseball there are no intentional strikes, but there sure are intentional walks. do you think the hitter should be forced to swing at the intentional balls?

By: dallasgoon

dallasgoon — Fri, 21 Sep 2012 01:44:24 +0000

All this clock stopping nonsense would create 4+ hour games. Seems like a good idea until it’s your team that has a lead and can’t run out the clock.

It’d be like your boss telling you that you have to spend ALL of the money you make every week (two weeks). You can’t save any of it because ‘it’s bad for the economy for you to hold on to money’, so you MUST spend it all. You have to spend it, even on stuff you do not need. If you don’t or can’t spend it all, you must give away what’s left.

When you put gas in your car, you’ve got to use all of it in one setting. You must always eat all of the food on your plate. And in the pot. No leftovers.

By: dallasgoon

dallasgoon — Fri, 21 Sep 2012 01:37:05 +0000

If you ban the kneeldown, that means your kick returner has to run out of the endzone from 9 1/2 yards deep.

It means defenders who get an INT on the last play of the game can’t fall down, but has to keep running until he is tackled to ‘give the other team a chance to tackle you and force a fumble’.

Gotta get rid of the spike to stop the clock.

Since every play with negative yards stops the clock (as some of you want it), when YOUR DEFENSE gets a sack or stops the ball carrier for a loss when that team is trying to make a comeback, the clock must stop (benefit to the losing team). That’s like a free timeout.

In a nutshell, ONLY A FOOL thinks this is a good idea.

By: judsonjr

judsonjr — Thu, 20 Sep 2012 20:08:06 +0000

I think the “must gain yardage for the clock to keep running” would be interesting.

Only problem I could see is that we’d have to endure a bunch of booth reviews. Almost any play where the RB just runs into the pile and then gets an arbitrary mark would be up for review.

By: mrmafaka

mrmafaka — Thu, 20 Sep 2012 01:16:01 +0000

Just as long as this attempt to ban kneel downs doesn’t extend to women, then us men will all be fine with that, after all when some babe preforms the kneel down, the play don’t get no better than that.

By: bleedinblackngold

bleedinblackngold — Wed, 19 Sep 2012 16:34:27 +0000

I have thought there should be a limit to the number of times a QB could kneel down at the end of a game, and that number would be 1, 1 would be the number. I think hell has frozen over and pigs are flying because I (for the most part) agree with Jerry Jones (OMG that leaves such a bad taste in my mouth saying that…ARGH)….however, this isn’t the worst thing “broken” in the NFL at this point….just sayin.

By: witchrunner

witchrunner — Wed, 19 Sep 2012 16:02:28 +0000

Of course, the idea of banning the knee is absurd at least if one of the objectives is to protect the QB. You can always let the play continue until he is “downed.” by contact, but this does risk a nice hit in the squash. Likewise, expecting the defense to just sit there and not try to get the ball is just as absurd. Of course they are going to push until the whistle blows, especially at the end of the first half when a fake knee is a distinct possibility.

I you are going to impose a rule of “trying” then we might as well have a panel of judges to rule on how hard players “tried” and the judges’ scores can then be added to the football score to determine who wins. We can call it gymnaball.

By: kev86

kev86 — Wed, 19 Sep 2012 15:28:32 +0000

I think Jerry should be banned from the sidelines. Wasted camera time for fans that prefer watching football.

By: blutbaddenbill

blutbaddenbill — Wed, 19 Sep 2012 15:26:52 +0000

I Think it should be banned if the winning team is winning by less than 8 points at the 2 mibute warning,if they are winning by more,they should be allowed to run it!

By: muir6

muir6 — Wed, 19 Sep 2012 15:24:21 +0000

Abolish owners on sidelines and grown men getting plastic surgery and freakish toupee s

By: mogogo1

mogogo1 — Wed, 19 Sep 2012 15:21:35 +0000

I can see where the idea is coming from, but in an era where player safety is king there’s zero chance of this ever going anywhere. Up three TDs with a minute left, we’re going to make you run a QB sneak or FB dive and have lots of guys butting heads for no reason?

By: nathanbetz91

nathanbetz91 — Wed, 19 Sep 2012 15:11:31 +0000

why?! he had every right to yell at them? what are coaches supposed to do, just let refs make ridiculous and wrong calls and when they always seem to go against the same team is that team just supposed to sit back and accept it? no this is harming the coaches job to so if they spot an error they will point it out

By: freebird2011

freebird2011 — Wed, 19 Sep 2012 14:44:23 +0000

It’s 47-10 and people want to require the winning team with possession to run plays?

Dumb idea.

By: autumnwind999

autumnwind999 — Wed, 19 Sep 2012 14:07:30 +0000

Actually, for all you saying there’s no way to make this work, there is.

The Arena League has a rule where you have to advance the ball on a play or else the clock stops as if it were an incomplete pass. So kneel downs and bogus running plays would do no good in this spot. It basically turns each of those kneel-down plays into goalline-stand type plays where even one out of three stops behind the LOS may be all a team needs to get the ball back with a little time. The more stops behind the LOS by the defense, the more time for its offense to go to work. The team leading at that point can still seal it by picking up positive yardage.

By: footballfan292

footballfan292 — Wed, 19 Sep 2012 13:54:39 +0000

This would not be an issue if it wasn’t a NY team. The media coddles those teams and those franchises all think they are entitled to special treatment.

By: ijr213

ijr213 — Wed, 19 Sep 2012 13:43:05 +0000

Removing the play doesn’t mean the concept will go away. It just means that teams will get sneakier to play it out. It also doesn’t guarantee “excitement,” just up to 3 more plays.

By: spcoltrane

spcoltrane — Wed, 19 Sep 2012 12:59:07 +0000

Applying Jerry’s reasoning,
(a) neither quarterbacks nor any other player should be allowed to slide or yield until forcibly brought to the ground by an opposing player;
(b) a defensive player who snags an interception cannot just lie down to protect the ball in the closing minute of the game; and
(c) quarterbacks should not be allowed to either spike the ball or drill one into the stands without being called for intentional grounding.

How many concussions did Jerry say he’s had? I think they’re showing now.

By: luckyarmpit

luckyarmpit — Wed, 19 Sep 2012 12:55:24 +0000

It’s amazing that every time Jerrah open his mouth, he spews nonsense. I guess that’s why the media keeps quoting him. It would be so nice if he would just fade into the background like many other NFL owners, but that’s not Jerrah’s style. He LIKES being the center of attention, especially the three-ring circus he calls a football team. Such is the life of someone who can afford to buy a football team and doesn’t know a thing about football. That’s like me buying a Lear jet but not knowing how to fly… but I make sure to tell the pilot how I think it should be done.

By: natleo99

natleo99 — Wed, 19 Sep 2012 12:14:58 +0000

Jerry Jones if you want it banned then your team should never do it again!!!!! show us all and run a play!!!!

By: gpete1962

gpete1962 — Wed, 19 Sep 2012 12:14:32 +0000

Just like Cowboy fans think Jerry should be banned!!

By: bigbluefan1

bigbluefan1 — Wed, 19 Sep 2012 12:11:52 +0000

First off it were not the Giants it would be no big deal but all of haters of the Giants and NY in general are just blowing it out.

A better rule would be to ban Jerry Jones from speaking to reporters.

Jerry is the leader of the Giant hater club
The Giants ruined the opening of jerry world
The Giants took the cowpokes out of the only playoff game in how many years.

Mr. Mara is the owner who is the most respected in the NFC East

Jerry can not stand the fact that the Giants are the team in the NFC East and his cow pokes are not even relavent

By: sophiethegreatdane

sophiethegreatdane — Wed, 19 Sep 2012 12:06:03 +0000

Jerrah is on point with this idea. For once, I agree with the man. And it’s a very simple fix. Inside of two minutes left a the end of the game, the clock will automatically stop for any play that does not get positive yards.

Problem solved.

This removes any “judgment” calls by the ref to determine if a player/team actually tried to run a play. If a team runs a play inside two mins, and gets positive yardage, then the clock keeps running. Forces the opposing team to play tough, smart defense, and they can stop the clock if they have timeouts, or if they stop the offense for a loss. It also means no more of this pansy take-a-knee BS. It forces the offense to play tough and smart too, right up until the end of the game.

By: phillyforlife

phillyforlife — Wed, 19 Sep 2012 11:25:51 +0000

Look if the score is close it is the offenses responsibility to recognize that the defense is coming and block them it not like they tried to hide it.

By: paulsmith107

paulsmith107 — Wed, 19 Sep 2012 11:16:08 +0000

This whole thing is stupid. Just recognize that the other team isn’t giving up with 5 seconds left down by 7 and tell your line hey they look like they are coming at us here

By: death1to2hipsters3

death1to2hipsters3 — Wed, 19 Sep 2012 11:00:31 +0000

I think it should be banned, I’m from Australia and I wake up every Monday morning at 3 am to watch football.. I hate it when the final play is a kneel down, it really just takes all the entertainment out of the game. I’m 15 years old really need my sleep but I’d rather watch the football, but I would rather watch some comeback football from Peyton Manning than watch Matt Ryan take a knee.

By: dallascowboysdishingthereal

dallascowboysdishingthereal — Wed, 19 Sep 2012 09:50:10 +0000

If cowboys keep playing like they did sunday, jerry won’t see any kneel downs from his team.

By: dallasgoon

dallasgoon — Wed, 19 Sep 2012 06:21:28 +0000

You don’t want a team kneeling on you??

How about you stop them before it gets to that point and get the ball back.

The point of kneeling down is to say, “We don’t need to score anymore against you. We’re trying to win a game here, not pile on. If you want, I call the Saints in here and have them score another touchdown, beating you by more points.”

By: billsboy88

billsboy88 — Wed, 19 Sep 2012 06:01:03 +0000

I was thinking…in most cases in the NFL a ball carrier has to be touched down by an opposing player to end the play. Every now and then someone forgets to touch a reciever that is laying on the ground and he subsequently gets up and takes off.

In the victory, no one touches the QB down, but the play ends. Are QBs given special priviledges in the rule book for kneeldowns and slides?

If ya get really literal with the wording of the rules…one could make a case that spiking it to kill the clock could be intentional grounding

By: tluke25

tluke25 — Wed, 19 Sep 2012 05:14:43 +0000

Really dumb idea. What will happen is the fullback will be given the ball and he will fall straight to the ground. … Someone will end up getting hurt that way. … And likely you will have fights breaking out over it.