“As a dog returns to his vomit, so a fool repeats his folly”

That was my intitial reaction to the news that Mike Pereira, former NFL head of officials, and the NFL patsy sent forward to explain the Walt Coleman tuck rule reversal in the 2002 AFC Championship game between the Raiders and Patriots, had a sudden change of heart and now thinks the tuck rule is bad for football.

The then NFL sanctioned spin doctor Pereira, couldn’t retreat fast enough from his assinine lectures about how the NFL rule book said something that it didn’t say at all. Attempting to rewrite the NFL rule book, Pereira at the time of the tragically bad call, explained to broken hearted Raiders fans that ”once you pump and bring the ball back to the set position, you can’t fumble. Period.”  The only problem with Pereira’s tuck rule explanation: it’s not what the rule book said…

The tuck rule is defined in Rule 3, Section 21, Article 2, Note 2 of the NFL Official Rules:

“When a player is holding the ball to pass it forward, any intentional forward movement of his hand starts a forward pass, even if the player loses possession of the ball as he is attempting to tuck it back toward his body. Also, if the player has tucked the ball into his body and then loses possession, it is a fumble.”

You can watch and listen to Mike Pereira try and explain the shitty call, and listen as Pereira admits the tuck rule as he has previously explained it goes directly against the intent of the rule itself at the 4:00 minute mark of the video below. Pereira’s tuck rule comments start at the 3:26 mark. What Pereira delicately avoids is that tisky bit at the end of rule 3, section 21, article 2, note 2, of the official NFL rules: “… also, if the player has tucked the ball into his body and then loses possession, it is a fumble.”

Clearly you can see Brady’s arm going forward, then tucking the ball into his body, Woodson delivers the hit, Brady fumbles, and the Raiders go to the 2002 AFC Championship game… until Walt Coleman (with help?) famously ruled otherwise.

Is anyone outside of Patriot-ville capable of lying, and standing by a claim that you weren’t sure Brady had fumbled once he put his left hand back upon the ball and then got hit by Woodson??? If so, I refer you to Oliver Stone, you lying fucking Patsy (pun intended). As Andy reid commented about the tuck rule “when 50 guys at a bar agree its a fumble, its a fumble.”

The Waffle House worthy statement Pereira uttered below was made after last weeks Ravens Chiefs playoff game. Here is Pereira, now a NFL analyst for Fox sports, describing his “now I see the light” moment about the previous stupidity of his defintion of the tuck rule. Pereira’s ridciculously poor spin job at the time of the Tuck travesty, now stands in marked contrast to this statement that actually makes sense. If the QB is not attempting to pass, it’s a fucking fumble. Period. We all knew that, we knew that long before and even after Pereira tried to sell us his spin doctored bullshit…

“2011 Mike Pereira” Discusses the Tuck Rule

(from this 1/11/11 Tuck Rule post on FoxSports.com)   Mike Pereira: Rule 3, Section 2 states “when a team ‘A’ player (passer) is holding the ball to pass it forward, any intentional forward movement of his hand starts the forward pass, even if the player loses possession of the ball as he attempting to tuck it back toward his body.”This was clearly a correct reversal, but is it time to look at this rule? Cassel was not attempting to pass the ball when it came loose. By instinct, referee Mike Carey ruled this a fumble because that’s what it appeared to be. I think it’s time to change this rule. A pass should only be ruled incomplete if the ball comes loose in the actual act of passing the ball. If it comes loose in the tucking motion, then it should be a fumble. I would support a rule change, although it took me a long time to get to this point. I’m sure it’s no consolation to the many Raiders fans around the country.

Bullshit, liar.  That Jack Ruby Pereira, flung himself upon the NFL’s “tuck” grenade is widely known… the rationale behind Pereira continuing to freely pour  a verbal salt bath upon our still festering silver & black wounds escapes me?

This sudden ”I’ve found Jesus” moment about the Tuck rule is simply too late now for Pereira, who basically told Raider nation after the Foxboro Fucking that “you stupid Raiders fans and reporters don’t understand the rules. Just because it looks like a fumble, is called a fumble, and fumble is the obvious intent of the rule, doesn’t mean that it is a fumble.” Pereira went on that day to lecture reporters ala Bellicheck about the Vinny testaverde call earlier in the season. The difference there, that tusky little thing again about Vinny not actually touching the ball with this other hand (“the tuck” for those of us now confused) whereas Brady clearly did tuck. You see Brady actually performed a perfect demonstration of that same tuck motion specifically referred to at the end of the Tuck rule as a fumble… “if the player has tucked the ball into his body and then loses possession, it is a fumble.”

Silly things like the facts haven’t dissuaded Pereira from piping down about the open wound that is the tuck rule yet. So, here then courtesy of the freshly picked scab from Mike Pereira is a…

Tuck Rule tribute in pictures, videos, and words…
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The Fuck Tuck Rule “Snowjob” NFL conspiracy in Pictures:
pictorial tribute to an NFL Assraping, and a pre-ordained Replaytriot dynasty

 

 

 

 

  

 

 

  

 

 The Fuck Tuck Rule “Snowjob” NFL conspiracy Videos:
a Video tribute to an NFL Assraping, and a pre-ordained Replaytriot dynasty

The Tuck Rule “Zapruder” film: shot from a snowy Foxboro knoll

 

Fittingly Phil Collins magical “in the air tonight” was playing in Foxboro Stadium as Walt Coleman stood under the replay hood, deciding the Raiders fate. The magic this time though was not for slaying Bellicheck the Killer pimp, it was “magical mumbo jumbo,” the risky business practices of Coleman (and possibly Tagliabue) altering destiny in the favor of Tom Brady and the Patriots.

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Did  Tagliabue intervene, during the ridiculously long time Coleman took to announce the call?
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Tom “Cruise” Brady Gets Paid with NFL Nookie

This is a purposely BS title, and simply an alternate video for Raiders fans hoping to purge the stench of Colemans call. Resist the urge to put Wayfarers on and proclaim “what the fuck, the Raiders got screwed.” Here is happy hooker Rebecca Demornay seducing Tom Cruise on the train in Risky Business… or picture it as the devil seducing Tom Brady to sell his soul for another play Raiders fans… your call.

 

The Fuck Tuck Rule “Snowjob” NFL conspiracy in Words:

a verbal tribute to an NFL Assraping, and a pre-ordained Replaytriot dynasty

 

The Tuck Rule From ESPN: Skip Bayless ESPN, First Take The following conversation took place on the December 8, 2009 ‘Second Down’ portion of ‘1st and 10′ which is aired daily on the ESPN morning show, First Take. Skip Bayless: Okay lemme back him up. I was at that game in the press box I was working in the Bay Area at the time. And you can dismiss this as classic Raider Al Davis paranoia but Al later told me that he had it on good authority that the league commissioner, Paul Tagliabue, actually participated via phone from New York during the replay review which did go on suspiciously long. I don’t remember what the exact — it was like four or five minutes. It was excessively long to the point I was dumbfounded by the call. I think you [Ritchie and the Raiders] got absolutely robbed. And league officials spent the next week lecturing reporters about how the rule book said something that I don’t think it said at all. They tried to rewrite the tuck rule by saying that once you tuck (brings arm forward in a throwing motion to tucking the ball), I’m sorry, once you pump and bring the ball back to the set position you can’t fumble. That’s not what I think that the rule book says.” JC: Wow! JR: Yeah. SB: The rule book says that if you start to throw and you think twice about it and you try to bring the ball back down and you lose control of the ball it’s not a fumble it’s just an incomplete pass. That’s the tuck rule. Tom Brady had finished tucking. He has successfully thought twice, brought the ball back down cause he almost threw it cause he went back to set position. He had finished – and it was a fumble! It was a strip fumble. The game is o-ver. There is no question the game is going to be over if it’s called. JC: And NFL history rewritten. SB: You got that right.

The Tuck Rule from Wikipedia: Tuck Rule, 2002 controversy Main article: 2001-2002 AFC Divisional Playoff game See also: NFL playoffs, 2001-02 The tuck rule resulted in a controversial finish to an NFL playoff game on January 19, 2002, between the New England Patriots and the Oakland Raiders. In the closing moments of the game in a snowy Foxboro Stadium, with New England trailing by three points, New England quarterback Tom Brady dropped back to pass. Charles Woodson came off the strong side corner blitz to knock the ball out of his hands after he had begun a passing motion, pulling his hand down below his shoulder and touching it with his left hand. Raiders’ Middle Linebacker Greg Biekert fell on the loose football. The officials initially called the play a recovered fumble, which would have sealed the victory for the Raiders. But after instant replay, referee Walt Coleman reversed this call, declared the play an incomplete forward pass, and gave possession back to New England. In explaining the reversal to the stadium crowd and the television audience, the referee stated that the ball was moving forward at the time it was dropped. However, instant replays showed that, at the moment Woodson stripped the ball from Brady, Brady had already brought the football back into his non-throwing hand, which would suggest that the “throwing motion” governed by the rule had already been completed and the play should have been ruled a fumble. In later interviews, the referee stated that it was his explanation, not the reversal, that was in error; the ball was moving backwards when it was lost, but the tuck rule applied. In any case, Patriots kicker Adam Vinatieri later tied the game with a dramatic 45-yard field goal, and the Patriots took advantage of the momentum they had seized, defeating the deflated Raiders in overtime on another field goal and eliminating them from the playoffs. Three weeks later, the Patriots won Super Bowl XXXVI. While the NFL has defended the call, not everybody has agreed. Bruce Allen, who ran the front office for the Raiders at the time of the game, still believes it was a fumble. “The rule itself doesn’t bother me,” he said. “But the way the rule is written, it was a fumble.” Nevertheless, when the NFL’s Competition Committee re-examined the rule after the 2001-2002 season, they made no changes to the rule; Mike Pereira notes that attempts have been made to revise the rule, but such revisions have always proven to be more difficult to enforce than the current rule.

The Tuck Rule From Walt Coleman: Walt Coleman NFL referee “after further review, the QB’s arm was moving forward…” ** Coleman later explained in interviews that it was his explanation, not the reversal, that was in error. Coleman claimed the ball was actualy moving backwards when it was lost, but that the tuck rule still applied.

Random Tuck Rule Commentary: “not one sane person on the planet saw anything but fumble. It was a complete and utter lie.” -random Raidergirls.com comment     “if 50 guys at the bar think it’s a fumble, then it’s a fumble. “ -Mike Holmgren   “I’ve never seen anybody throw a pass with two hands on the ball” - Jim Gruden (Jon Gruden’s father)   “It’s a fumble.” “And they made up a new rule after that. I mean, come on … a lot of money got changed in that game right there.” -Chris Hovan “No matter which side of the officials-against-the-Raiders conspiracy on which you fall, there is no denying that the Patriots dynasty was launched on such a thin thread, and Gruden’s departure from the Raiders — and the team’s ultimate fall back to laughingstock — was set in motion.”  ”If we had won that game, I might have been selling pretzels in the Black Hole,” Jon Gruden said during an interview at the Bucs’ headquarters this week. “You never know what would have happened.” “No, we don’t. But we do know what would not have happened. The Patriots would not have won the Super Bowl following the 2001 season. Perhaps Bill Belichick would not have become a genius, perhaps Tom Brady would not have become Joe Montana.” -Ira Miller, San Francisco Chronicle   “…The “Tuck Rule” has been buried, like the Oakland Raiders’ 2001 championship hopes in the Foxborough snow. While the Tuck Rule isn’t used that often, the UFL listed it’s elimination first in their press release. It’s a fun way to needle the NFL because most fans and players fundamentally disagree with the rule.” -Pro football talk Coleman Flew, Pereira Knew, Tagliabue too - Raiders Fan 182

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No Overhead Projector Needed to Dismiss Cable as Raiders Coach…

Thank You from the bottom of our Raiders loving hearts Tom Cable.

You returned the Raiders to respect in the wake of the immature and conceited silver spoon mess Lane Kiffin dumped into your lap by lying to his boss. The Raiders of 2010 played hard under your leadership, and finished strong.

As noted by a distraught Raiders fan reacting to another surprising Al Davis coaching move…  ”Cable planted deep roots for the next Raiders head coach to tap in 2011. “ 

Thank you Tom Cable for your unwavering passion for the Silver & Black, and returning the Oakland Raiders to a team known for its fight and grit. You have come a very long and deserved way from bagel dogs and camping on San Diego beaches.

The “Cable Guy” shall be fondly remembered for restoring the pride and poise to the Oakland Raiders.

Sincerely,
RaiderGirls.com

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Looking ahead to the Oakland Raiders 2011 needs, there is a glaring omission from the typical “Team of the Decades” Al Davis is always referring to. Successful Raiders teams have always had a dominant beast of a center, built with a  shorter (yet thick and stout) frame to  root out the rut of d-lineman from the moshpit of humanity in the gridiron trenches. Barret Robbins and Jim Otto come to mind. Florida Center Mike Pouncey could be that man. Former Raiders head coach Jon Gruden likes Pouncey alot, check out this wicked Pouncey video clip and Grudens comments. Pouncey, #55,  delivers a punishing decleater cut block to spring the Florida RB for the score. Pouncey shows amazing feet for his size. Might Pouncey look good in Silver & Black?

Jon Gruden on Mike Pouncey Video - Pouncey Delivers Wicked Block

Pouncey Brothers Move Men Against Their Will 

Having a Pittsburgh Steelers buddy means watching lots of Mike Tomlin press conferences (Tomlin is awesome, and a Tomlin presser is epic fun for any fan of pigskin) and Stan Savran talking Terrible Towels. One guy stands out every time the Big Benny Roethlisberger highlights roll, the Steelers rookie and All Pro center Maurkice Pouncey. Well it turns out Maurkice has a “baby” bro by the name of Mike Pouncey, also an All American offensive lineman from the Florida Gators.

The 2010 Raiders alternated between the undersized (or a lack of the feakish brute strength of a Barret Robbins) yet gamey Samson Satele, and the six-foot-eight rookie Jared Veldheer. Veldheer got chucked around in an unfair first start at center against the Titans, while flashing  some downfield blocking artistry at times, before settling in nicely as the Raiders starting Left Tackle. Satele had some very good games in 2010, and played with a great motor, but lacks the “root out the pig” strength Robbins used to tame the Jamal Williams and Ted Washingtons of the NFL. A friend once joked that “Satele on ‘roids would be All Pro.”

Mike Pouncey has a #19 overall grade right now in the 2011 draft, and is rated as the drafts best center. Pouncey might make an ideal Raiders anchor, while potentially starting his Sunday career at guard. Pouncey is the type of “high character meets good genetics” athlete you can plug into an offensive line and let learn on the ropes, knowing he will improve with every start.

Pouncey has already stated his desire to join his bro with the Steelers, and the amorous feelings are mutual according to Stelers insiders. Tomlin struck gold once at the Pouncey family well… will the Raiders possibly “reach” up a bit in the 2011 draft to fulfill Pouncey’s dreams of wearing a black jersey after all?

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Florida Center Mike Pouncey | Pouncey Draft Bio

Michael Pouncey (born July 24, 1989) is the starting center, and was previously the starting right guard, for the University of Florida. Pouncey is considered one the best center prospect heading into the 2011 NFL Draft.

Mike Pouncey was born in Lakeland, Florida in 1989. He attended Lakeland High School in Lakeland, where he played high school football for the Lakeland Dreadnaughts. As a senior in 2006, Pouncey helped lead the Dreadnaughts to their third consecutive Florida Class 5A state championship and second straight USA Today national championship.

Pouncey’s College Career: Pouncey received an athletic scholarship to attend the University of Florida in Gainesville, Florida, where he plays for coach Urban Meyer’s Florida Gators. As a freshman in 2007, he started the season as an offensive lineman but had to move to the defensive line as replacement when several defensive starters were injured. Pouncey started four of thirteen games as a freshman, recording eight tackles and an interception. As a sophomore in 2008, he moved back to the offensive line and started all fourteen of the Gators games at right guard, including the Gators’ 24–14 victory over the Oklahoma Sooners in the 2009 BCS National Championship Game. After his junior season in 2009, Pouncey was named an Associated Press honorable mention All-Southeastern Conference (SEC) selection. As a senior in 2010, he moved from guard to center for the Gators, replacing his twin brother Maurkice Pouncey at center, after Maurkice entered the 2010 NFL Draft after their junior year.

Pouncey’s twin brother Maurkice Pouncey was a first-round NFL Draft pick and is currently the starting center and an All Pro for the Pittsburgh Steelers.

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