SI: Zack Martin Has Seven Career Pro Bowls. And Seven Career Holding Penalties

[MarcusRock]

What in the world are you on about? Crack cocaine? Are you smoking crack cocaine? Safe space? Go back and view the 6 or 7 posts I have submitted to this board and show me where I said anything about a safe space. I'll wait... and while I am waiting, let me ask you - is this how you greet new members?

Either you're T-RO's burner account or you really are new and don't quite know how these here interwebs work just yet. Lol.

 

[Tussinman]

Generational player. Both Smith and Martin are HOF. Hopefully they get rings before they retire.

Yeah sad if they never even play in the conference championship game let alone superbowl.

7 out of the 10 lineman that made the 2010s all decade team played in a Superbowl. Martin and Smith where 2 of the 3 who never played in a superbowl (the 3rd player with no Superbowl appearance was Joe Thomas who oddly enough never even played in a single playoff game).

 

[RS12]

Wont be fully appreciated by the fan base till he retires. When he does you will definitely notice.

 

[CaptSS]

Either you're T-RO's burner account or you really are new and don't quite know how these here interwebs work just yet. Lol.

Yeah.. if you look it my avatar it shows NEW MEMBER.

And yes Cletus, I am familiar with "how these here interwebs work."

Xanax. Heck of a drug, right???

 

[MarcusRock]

Yeah.. if you look it my avatar it shows NEW MEMBER.

And yes Cletus, I am familiar with "how these here interwebs work."

Xanax. Heck of a drug, right???

Hey, you're the one who responded to a post I addressed to someone else as if I was addressing you. So if you're not the one on drugs you need to get to a "special" doctor immediately for that persecution thingy you got going on.

 

[john van brocklin]

https://www.si.com/nfl/2022/12/13/z...bowls-as-career-holding-penalties-daily-cover

A certain statistic circumnavigated the football world late this summer, soaring above the usual wave of colorless preseason content. It first took flight on social media—raising eyebrows, halting scrolling thumbs, all those early signs of something going gobsmacking viral. And before long it barged into real life, too, popping up one day in conversation at its point of origin inside the Cowboys’ offensive line room.

“My first reaction was like, Damn,” center Tyler Biadasz says.

“Just incredible,” tackle Terence Steele says.

“Oh, yeah, I’ve become very familiar with it through the Twitterverse, through the building,” tackle Tyler Smith says. “It’s pretty absurd.”

The stat is simple enough, requiring no knowledge of QBR, PFF or any such acronymic mode of analysis. Yet, like a picture, it’s worth a thousand words about its subject (or, in this article’s case, exactly 2,927). In its original form, as Cowboys right guard Zack Martin prepared for his ninth NFL year, it went like this:

Martin has reached more Pro Bowls (seven) than he has received career holding penalties (six).

From sports bars to message boards, it’s a well-worn cliché that holding could be called on every NFL snap. And while this isn’t actually true—at least not according to the letter of the law—even the most reputable blockers occasionally find themselves busted for an illicit clutch, grab, rip, tug or hug, and then forced to endure the public-shaming ritual of having their number announced over the entire stadium loudspeakers while a close-up shot of their guilty face flashes on television.

Last year alone, 26 offensive linemen finished with at least four accepted holds, among them Browns guard Wyatt Teller and Niners tackle Trent Williams, both universally recognized as being among the league’s elite. By contrast, entering ’22, Martin boasted just one holding penalty on his record—not counting another that was declined—since the start of the ‘17 season, a span of more than 5,300 offensive and special teams snaps including the playoffs. (During that time he also made four Pro Bowls, most recently last year alongside Teller and Williams).

So how is such a pristine rap sheet possible? Sitting down at the Cowboys’ facility after a recent practice, Martin confesses his secrets. “I’d be a liar if I told you I don’t hold,” he says. “But the biggest thing is understanding when I can and when I can’t.”

Should be a first ballot HOFer.
Should be.

 

[VaqueroTD]

Generational player. Both Smith and Martin are HOF. Hopefully they get rings before they retire.

It was when we had Tyron, Martin and TFred all together as young linemen when I thought for sure we were going to win another Super Bowl.

Martin is a pro’s pro, the obvious leader of that line, and underrated how much he has driven its success.

 

[T-RO]

Every call is rigged by biased officials

Marcus digs even deeper into his straw* man arguments.

Has anyone on this forum ever claimed more than 4-6 dubious calls by NFL officials in a game? Usually just one or two.

So embarrassing for him. Marcus MUST defend the Shield of Goodell's NFL. Duty calls$s.


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*Shortage of straw could soon be an issue.

 

[MarcusRock]

Marcus digs even deeper into his straw* man arguments.

Has anyone on this forum ever claimed more than 4-6 dubious calls by NFL officials in a game? Usually just one or two.

So embarrassing for him. Marcus MUST defend the Shield of Goodell's NFL. Duty calls$s.


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*Shortage of straw could soon be an issue.

So you finally respond TO me without actually addressing me directly. Progress at least. You're not going to debate the individual calls though. You know better. You like the haze of "oh refs pick and choose when they unleash their master plan" that people need to connect 40 dots and make 3 broad jump leaps to arrive at other than the simplest possibilities. If it's fake, why do you watch? Are you and the rest going to resist the New World Order starting with football games? Lol. It's no surprise you need a safe space to watch Cowboys games which then gets your imagination working overtime to nurse those mental bruises the Cowboys inflict.

 

[Proof]

The fact that he escapes the anti-Cowboys ref bias of blatantly calling false penalties on the OL year after year is astounding.

It would be far too obvious and they would tip their hand. They know their limits

 

[MarcusRock]

It would be far too obvious and they would tip their hand. They know their limits

They didn't give a crap about Connor Williams last year though, lol.