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Dumb and dumber: Stupidest things we've seen this NFL season
Jordy Nelson of the Green Bay Packers runs with a catch against Robert Alford of the Atlanta Falcons at the Georgia Dome on October 30, 2016. Scott Cunningham/Getty Images

Dumb and dumber: The stupidest things we've seen this NFL season

It's the end of a long week of a long sports week. Let's talk about something stupid, like how as much as we love football, it is often filled with absolute stupidity.

Good day and welcome back to the Yardbarker roundtable where we invite our contributors talk about the serious (and not so serious) side of sports. This week we've been discussing up the best, the worst and the brilliant so far this NFL season, and getting amped up for the remaining games. Today we asked our panel:

What is the dumbest thing you've seen in a game so far this season?

Daniel Tran:

Over $24,000 was forked over by Antonio Brown for this touchdown celebration. It's okay though. It's not like the league has bigger problems to deal with. Any touchdown celebration that is fined is the dumbest thing in the NFL. That's why everyone takes shots at the shield calling it the No Fun League, and maybe why they are losing viewers. They are caught up trying to "clean" up one of the more fun parts of the game while ignoring more glaring issues. Bravo, NFL.

Mike Tunison: Terrance Williams breaking toward the middle of the field rather than going out of bounds in the waning seconds of Dallas' Week 1 loss.

Sam Greszes: I, uh, I don't know what else to say about this. This is the worst interception I have seen in years. Like, how is this even possible? How did Mariota think throwing the ball directly to a defender would go?


Demetrius Bell: We've all seen refs deal with unfortunate cases of mistaken identity whenever they call penalties/fouls in sports. Players and numbers get lost in the shuffle, and these are still humans who have to judge the game going at extremely high speeds, so mistakes are bound to happen. However, there was a call in the Colts/Titans game from the hilariously-awful Week 7 that just blew my mind. On this play, Colts safety T.J. Green was called for pass interference. As usual, CBS gave us a replay so that we could see how Green got called for the infraction. As it turned out, it would have been very difficult for Green to actually impede the progress of the Titans receiver because Green was actually standing still as a statue on the sideline because he wasn't even in on the play.

That's right: A guy got flagged for pass interference while standing on the sideline watching the game. There were a lot of wacky shenanigans during that terrible Week 7, but that was probably the wackiest of them all.

Shiloh Carder:  Odell Beckham Jr. and the kicking net. Sure, his sideline tirade where the net didn't back down from OBJ and smacked him was meme worthy for a week, but his moronic "proposal" to the net was cringe-worthy and grating from a guy who just announced he wasn't having fun playing football anymore. This was a guy who spent weeks throwing tantrums when faced with some adversity and then acted like Cuba Gooding Jr. at the end of "Jerry McGuire" when he finally had a big game.

Jamie Neal:  Earl Thomas gave a referee a hug and the ref threw a flag. Ok, do I understand that the NFL has to maintain some level of decorum? Sure. Do I think that Earl Thomas should have been flagged? Mayyybbbeeeeeeee… The bigger issue at hand here is that the referee who was hugged was the one who threw the flag and he didn’t even smile while he was being hugged.

How do you not smile when someone is giving you a hug? The referee must have been a still-bitter-Niners fan who hasn’t moved on from the mini rivalry the Niners/Seahawks had when both teams were still relevant.

David Matthews: During America's Game of the Week, after being quiet for nearly the whole game, Jordy Nelson caught a short pass from Aaron Rodgers on a crossing route. He had a first down if he cut upfield but instead he tried to juke and ended up veering back toward the line of scrimmage. He was immediately tackled by two Falcons. 4th down. This is the sort of play Nelson usually makes, or used to make. It was incredibly odd. Anyway, the Falcons had 12 men on the field so the Packers got the first another way.

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