I agree. Ball bounces both ways. Just play the damn game. I don’t care how much money people have bet on the game. But you watch. The NFL is going to become like horse racing. Stadiums will become casinos. Sent from my iPhone using FerrariChat
Sean Payton was calling that series like it was OT and the Saints needed a TD to win. Last I checked, you only need 1 more point than the other team at the end of regulation, not 7
Actually I was listening to Boomer Esiason on his radio show this morning and he went into great detail about the various refs responsibilities. He spent a fair amount of time describing what each one was responsible for and how they have to be focused on the part of the field/action/players that is their responsibility. He said he believes that the official who was supposed to follow the play was actually looking somewhere else on the field. So Boomer said the other officials were simply watching their responsibilities and didn't see the play. I do see in one replay that the referee standing in the backfield was not looking at the play. As Boomer explained he has to watch for roughing the passer and holding. Of course there were 2 officials on that side of the field, the one who missed the play and the other who declared the pass incomplete. One would think the second official would have thrown a flag. Oh well.
Yes that is correct - each official has to watch their own responsibility and therefore 6 or 7 cannot all be looking at the same thing - I was exaggerating But my point is something that blatant, and you would think one of the other 6 "may" have seen it since the guy that should have did not. For example, the two officials in the backfield behind Drew Brees, one (or both) could have followed the ball since there was nobody near Brees to call a rough on the passer.....
Yep. How many times have we seen an interference - and then three flags come flying in... But it still comes back to (I think), you fix that particular missed call, what about all the others.? I think soon we will have officials watching remotely with the ability to fly a drone in and drop a flag, or something l like that camera that is overhead and follows the play, it can drop flags, too.
The Saints have to get over it. YES they got screwed. It happens to other teams all the time. I feel for them but they Peyton was still complaining about it well after it already occurred instead of worrying about the rest of the game. Once again yes it does suck but they could’ve put the Rams away early and they did not. As long as it’s a one possession game a team is vulnerable to a hideous call which may determine the outcome. The Cowboys got screwed in Green Bay a few years ago (resulting in a rule change) and the Steelers got screwed (last year I believe ) in a big game against the Pats Talk of a replay between the 2 games is just pure comedy. While we’re at it let’s bring back Bradshaw, Harris, Stabler ..... and replay the immaculate reception.
Good points. Beside, they can't replay the Immaculate Reception game. They'd have to take down the statue commemorating it at the Pittsburgh airport. T
That's exactly right. Replay solves nothing. People think it does because they only remember the calls that they got right. One reason I am strongly against replay is because they allow you to replay some things but not all things, so how is that fair? So we get some things right (or wrong) with replay, but then other OBVIOUS errors nothing can be done. You either replay everything, or nothing. I vote nothing. Play the bloody game, accept the fact that there is human error on BOTH the referees and the players. Calls will even out in the end on most occasions, and if they don't "nobody will die, it's the NFL" (to quote Bill Belichick)
I'm not sending those to one of my friends. He's been on the conspiracy train for a while. While I think there's some truth in paying close attention.
Lol...I've been on there since the Pitt-Seattle SB 2006 and the SF-BAL SB 2013 Go back and watch them now, try and tell me those were not very questionable officiating (especially for a crew that allegedly was the best on the NFL's biggest stage)
The problem is people only remember 'a hideous call which may determine the outcome' if it is the last play or series of the game. Other errors - by the referees *OR* the teams much earlier on had just as much of or more of an effect on the outcome, such as the first two NO possessions of the game in the red zone, and all they got were 2 FG's. If NO had 2 TD's rather than 2 FG's early on both teams would have played differently.
Send it! We need the tin foil hat crew on this! We need a good frame by frame analysis of that call from all possible camera angles to show one ref waving off another to obviate the obvious PI, and send a team less popular in their own home town than the Patriots (per the TV ratings!). How else are we going to occupy 2 weeks until SB LIII? Discuss the Pro Bowl? T
And it’s the same idea with replaying some but not all situations. Replay all or none (in my opinion)
My brother pointed out that everytime a team is getting a new stadium they make it to the Superbowl a few years before the stadium is built - my 2013 Niners included.
