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JoeyFlex5 said:
I genuinely don’t know what you mean when you call those guys insufferable smug douchebags, do you just hate them because they’re good?
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Allen is a bit annoying

Burrow is really smug (but for good reason and it hurts more because he’s a division rival - if he was our QB or in the NFC we’d probably all love him)

The only thing to hate about mahomes is how good he is…

Herbert’s so insular it’s tough to imagine anyone disliking him… only reason to get annoyed about him is everyone crowning him when his teams have done less than the ravens the last few years
 
rossihunter2 said:
Allen is a bit annoying

Burrow is really smug (but for good reason and it hurts more because he’s a division rival - if he was our QB or in the NFC we’d probably all love him)

The only thing to hate about mahomes is how good he is…

Herbert’s so insular it’s tough to imagine anyone disliking him… only reason to get annoyed about him is everyone crowning him when his teams have done less than the ravens the last few years
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pretty spot on, I don’t find Allen annoying, but yeah burrow is just VERY confident and if you hate having to play him twice a year i guess you could find him smug. Mahomes been a bit whiny lately but cmon you can’t deny his dog status.
 
Deebo813 said:
imagine after the game you go up to your opponents “ thanks for not running up the score”.. that sound so soft. It dnt matter if we losing by 47, i want a team to kick a fg with time expiring to make it 50..
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Me too. This is pro ball, not the wuss league.
 
rossihunter2 said:
Allen is a bit annoying

Burrow is really smug (but for good reason and it hurts more because he’s a division rival - if he was our QB or in the NFC we’d probably all love him)

The only thing to hate about mahomes is how good he is…

Herbert’s so insular it’s tough to imagine anyone disliking him… only reason to get annoyed about him is everyone crowning him when his teams have done less than the ravens the last few years
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What about Allen do you find annoying?
 
Deebo813 said:
imagine after the game you go up to your opponents “ thanks for not running up the score”.. that sound so soft. It dnt matter if we losing by 47, i want a team to kick a fg with time expiring to make it 50..
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There’s another popular school of thought that says if your winning and the score is out of reach you don’t purposely run up the score. You play your back ups as much as possible and still play competitively. Your kinda saying we beat your asses and really have nothing left to prove, until the next time. For me that’s a winners attitude and shows much more class than trying to set the record for the winning margin. It’s about showing confidence and class, not about being soft.
 
Tank said:
There’s another popular school of thought that says if your winning and the score is out of reach you don’t purposely run up the score. You play your back ups as much as possible and still play competitively. Your kinda saying we beat your asses and really have nothing left to prove, until the next time. For me that’s a winners attitude and shows much more class than trying to set the record for the winning margin. It’s about showing confidence and class, not about being soft.
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I just see no reason for me to hate a team because i got the shit beat out of me. In a perfect world and in movies is the only place where “ class” is consistently shown.. this is reality, where if you complain about getting your ass beat, you look really soft. Ravens and ravens fans are only people that care about it, rest of the world was laughing and mocking us cause we got beat so bad. At this point, we should just walk off the field if the score is out of reach
 
Deebo813 said:
I just see no reason for me to hate a team because i got the shit beat out of me. In a perfect world and in movies is the only place where “ class” is consistently shown.. this is reality, where if you complain about getting your ass beat, you look really soft. Ravens and ravens fans are only people that care about it, rest of the world was laughing and mocking us cause we got beat so bad. At this point, we should just walk off the field if the score is out of reach
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That wasn’t my point. Agreed, I would never hate a team just for running up the score, if your beat, your beat. You put it behind you and improve, it’s not the other team’s fault.

My point is it show’s little professionalism or class to run up a score on a team you’ve already crushed. It’s not a perfect world or movie scenario, it’s what good teams do that carry themselves like they’ve been there before. IMO running up a score when it’s out of reach is bush league and amateurish.
 
Tank said:
That wasn’t my point. Agreed, I would never hate a team just for running up the score, if your beat, your beat. You put it behind you and improve, it’s not the other team’s fault.

My point is it show’s little professionalism or class to run up a score on a team you’ve already crushed. It’s not a perfect world or movie scenario, it’s what good teams do that carry themselves like they’ve been there before. IMO running up a score when it’s out of reach is bush league and amateurish.
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But didnt we keep running the ball on them when the game was over to get the record? Or was that another team? Either way, im glad they did it and i hope any team that gets chance to do so, does it vs us.. especially If its gonna get our team and coaches upset
 
Deebo813 said:
But didnt we keep running the ball on them when the game was over to get the record? Or was that another team? Either way, im glad they did it and i hope any team that gets chance to do so, does it vs us.. especially If its gonna get our team and coaches upset
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Key words, "to get a (team rushing)record". Dude fell down out of bounds when the record was broken, had nothing to do with showing up the other team or running up the score. lol

Different cultures I guess. I've played a bunch of sports at lower levels, and coached a bunch of youth sports up through teens. None of our teams(and there were some excellent ones) ever thought of running up the score with the game well in hand. It's my experience it's an unwritten policy amongst gentlemen and to do it is classless and bush league. Act like you've been there before, not like your celebrating the SB! lol
 
Tank said:
There’s another popular school of thought that says if your winning and the score is out of reach you don’t purposely run up the score. You play your back ups as much as possible and still play competitively. Your kinda saying we beat your asses and really have nothing left to prove, until the next time. For me that’s a winners attitude and shows much more class than trying to set the record for the winning margin. It’s about showing confidence and class, not about being soft.
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Nah, fuck that, those plays translate to stats that can Justify millions come contract time, this isn’t high school.
 
Deebo813 said:
But didnt we keep running the ball on them when the game was over to get the record? Or was that another team? Either way, im glad they did it and i hope any team that gets chance to do so, does it vs us.. especially If its gonna get our team and coaches upset
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That last line is key, run it up, piss our guys off, we’ll see y’all again
 
JoeyFlex5 said:
Nah, fuck that, those plays translate to stats that can Justify millions come contract time, this isn’t high school.
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It’s not just high school. If there’s plays a guy needs for incentives they give them the chance. Seldom is that the case in a walkover.

Pity the fool that get’s his star WR a career ending injury trying to score when winning 48 - 7. lol

I will say there’s some exceptions. College football rankings at the top are pretty arbitrary and often justified by a top team scoring 60 on a meager opponent. Or in some soccer leagues ties in the standings are broken by goal differential.
 
Tank said:
There’s another popular school of thought that says if your winning and the score is out of reach you don’t purposely run up the score. You play your back ups as much as possible and still play competitively. Your kinda saying we beat your asses and really have nothing left to prove, until the next time. For me that’s a winners attitude and shows much more class than trying to set the record for the winning margin. It’s about showing confidence and class, not about being soft.
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I think most teams that pull starters or take their foot off the gas, in this situations, are doing so to protect key players from injury. I think most coaches wouldn't have a problem blowing the doors off teams, padding stats, etc.

You don't want to be the coach who gets their QB killed throwing for a 6th TD pass with a 30 point lead in the 4th quarter. Like you can do that, but the risk exceeds the reward.

That's why you don't see as much of it professionally.

In College and High School, honestly, its more prevalent, because there's not much that can be done. If Alabama is playing Grambling, Alabama's backups would beat Grambling's starters by 30 points. You're not going to put your backups in and encourage them to play like shit on purpose. They play hard too. They're just better.

In the NFL, the gap between talent is so small that backups on any team aren't going to slaughter starters on another.
 
JoeyFlex5 said:
Nah, fuck that, those plays translate to stats that can Justify millions come contract time, this isn’t high school.
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See, I'm not even thinking of class. I'm thinking of the risk of injury to said player. Especially if it's a key player that we can't afford to lose.
 
Yeah I'm not sure playing your hardest to the final whistle demonstrates a lack of class. Fair enough to prevent injury but personally l'd prefer to have the shit beaten out of me than someone go easy on me.
 
Dom McRaven said:
See, I'm not even thinking of class. I'm thinking of the risk of injury to said player. Especially if it's a key player that we can't afford to lose.
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That’s the argument, keeping your starters in a boat race may be reckless, but let’s not be softies about it and whine because the score is too far apart
 
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