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This week Peterman played for the entirety of a game for the first time in his career. He threw 49 times for less than 200 yards, notching three interceptions. He’s now thrown so many interceptions he owns the record for the most in the Super Bowl era from a player with 100 or fewer professional attempts. Following the game, Peterman’s lasting appearance in Buffalo was questioned by one of the last black men to play quarterback for the Bills — E.J. Manuel, a consistently maligned former first-round selection.“I usually never open up about my situation in Buffalo, but the fact that this guy has had multiple games with 4-plus interceptions ... and I still don’t have a job in the league? ... UNREAL,” Manuel said in a now-deleted post. “Say what you want about me [url=http://www.falconsfootballauthentics.com/robert-alford-jersey-authentic]Womens Robert Alford Jersey[/url] , but never have I ever done that. Forget a learning curve, I didn’t get the luxury of being able to use that as an excuse. I wonder why.” Peterman has 12 interceptions in eight games played. In 31 games, Manuel had 16. In Manuel’s last 16 starts he boasts 3,170 pass yards, 17 touchdowns, and 14 interceptions —numbers that are nearly identical to Dak Prescott’s. At the very least, Manuel played like a NFL starting quarterback.This isn’t the only time Manuel has been vocal about the disparity. In 2016, he went further in describing the differences between black and white quarterback play. “The leash isn’t as long [as white quarterbacks’],” Manuel told SB Nation. “You have to take advantage of those opportunities when you get them. People are always a little critical toward [black quarterbacks] but it comes with the territory.”The assumption was the Bills reached for a quarterback in 2013 upon selecting Manuel. He was frequently derided, a target of racist posts after losing performances. When he was eventually benched in 2017 [url=http://www.falconsfootballauthentics.com/ryan-schraeder-jersey-authentic]Womens Ryan Schraeder Jersey[/url] , he expressed that he’d moved to a depressive state. By the end, the Bills declined to keep him and let him walk into free agency. Yet none of this is revolutionary. The American understanding of blackness under center has always been one of chance; perhaps they’ll be good enough to play the position, but it’ll come as a surprise. It’s the erroneous notion that an intellectual wall keeps the black quarterback from athletic glory.In September, a Texas superintendent said of Deshaun Watson, “When you need precision decision-making you can’t count on a black quarterback.” Ahead of the 2018 NFL Draft, it was commonly suggested top prospect Lamar Jackson should make the move to wide receiver, despite winning a Heisman at the quarterback position at Louisville. In Buffalo alone, black quarterbacks have continuously been a target of degradation. Marlin Briscoe was the first black man to start at quarterback in the AFL. He set a rookie record for touchdowns in 1968 only to be benched and moved to receiver. James “Shack” Harris started a game at quarterback for the Bills in the same year, but not before he was forced to stay in a $6 room at a local YMCA instead of with the team. During training camp, the coaching staff attempted to move him to wideout and gave him a job cleaning team cleats. If it is believed that the black athlete is incapable of performing at a coveted [url=http://www.falconsfootballauthentics.com/julio-jones-jersey-authentic]http://www.falconsfootballauthentics.com/julio-jones-jersey-authentic[/url] , well-paid position, then black play at the position will always have a cap. Such an environment is even more egregious during the Colin Kaepernick era, in which black athletes have used their platforms to fight against the horrors of racial injustice at the cost of their careers.The problem isn’t solely that Peterman continues to play football. The problem is how many more Petermans will subsequently follow — and how many talented black quarterbacks will be left on the sidelines, or cast away off the field forever. Falcons receiver Julio Jones caught it. Unless he didn’t.The ruling in Philadelphia was that he didn’t. And the second ruling in New York was the right one.Setting aside for now whether the officials properly concluded that the Falcons receiver failed to secure what would have been a 52-yard gain in Thursday night’s opener against the Eagles, NFL senior V.P. of officiating Al Riveron properly applied the replay standard when considering, in response to a challenge from Falcons coach Dan Quinn, whether a mistake had been made.In a frame-by-frame review of the super-slow motion video, it looked like Jones secured the catch. But no angle provided clear and obvious evidence that Jones had made the catch. Or, to apply the more colorful standard, 50 drunks in a bar wouldn’t have shouted in unison that a mistake had been made.As a league source acknowledged on Friday [url=http://www.atlantafalconsteamonline.com]www.atlantafalconsteamonline.com[/url] , the ruling on the field would have stood regardless of whether the ruling was catch or no catch. Just as there was no clear and obvious evidence that Jones did catch it, there was no clear and obvious that Jones didn’t.And that’s the way the replay standard should be applied. It wasn’t applied that way last year, with Riveron on multiple occasions ignoring the rules and attempting to fashion a ruling based on what he saw — or what he thought he saw — from the remote confines of 345 Park Avenue.The shift arrived most notably during Super Bowl XLII, when a pair of key touchdown catches by the Eagles were upheld via replay review. In Thursday night’s game, the biggest play that wasn’t also fell in favor of the Eagles, with the Falcons not picking up more than half the length of the field because Riveron opted not to attempt to replace the judgment of the officials with his own.Last night, the new, and correct, approach to replay didn’t only benefit the Eagles. A catch in the first half by Falcons tight end Austin Hooper seemed to be incomplete after the ball seemed to not just move but to end up flat on the ground under Hooper. But the 50-drunks-in-a-bar bar wasn’t met, and the ruling on the field stood.And while this approach may require coaches [url=http://www.atlantafalconsteamonline.com/t-shirts]Atlanta Falcons T-Shirt[/url] , players, media, and fans to tolerate periodic mistakes by officials, replay doesn’t attempt to correct mistakes. It attempts to correct clear mistakes only.
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