Yes. I was talking about the Bucs, the team you referred to as crappy.
Good thing no one ever watches the post-game show. On the local one, I happened to hear one guy, a DT I think, say something like “…they were working me like a Hebrew building pyramids…” I hope I was the only person to hear that.
You guys see the end of the Sunday Night game? With the Cardinals already in FG range and about to spike the ball with, I think, 6 seconds left, a Bengals lineman was flagged for mimicking the QB’s snap count, which is Unsportsmanlike Conduct and a 15 yard penalty. That turned the FG into a chip-shot.
I think that was actually worth a shot by the lineman. From where they were, the Cardinals were probably at least 75% to hit their FG and end the game. However, if the gambit worked and the Cardinals committed a false start, there would have been a 10 second runoff that would have sent the game into overtime. That mimicking penalty it so rarely called, I’m sure a cost-benefit analysis would favor trying it as long as it stands at least some chance of succeeding.
Collinsworth pointed out that it was only called because the back judge stays right behind the linebackers during the final two minutes. Otherwise, he wouldn’t have been able to hear clearly enough to know who was doing it. So it might have been worth a try but not then.
And this week, KC had the biggest big guy touchdown in the NFL:
KC hammered the Chargers, still no touchdowns by a WR.
Chiefs’ passing game is weird.
More egregious was the Bengals decision to throw the ball on 3rd and 2 on their final offensive possession. They were already in FG range and the Cardinals have no timeouts. Why in the world don’t you run the ball there and run off some of that precious time?
Absolute officiating idiocy in the Pats-Bills game. “Inadvertent whistle” blew dead a perfectly good play because the moron official thought the receiver was out of bounds when he was nowhere close, thus eliminating what would have likely been a large number of YAC. And then they called some tacky BS “sideline interference” on Buffalo that they would probably have ignored otherwise, I’m assuming as a way to try to give the Pats some makeup yards. What a complete disaster in every facet.
Bills look like they can steal this game on the road
I suspect the official blew the whistle when Rex stepped in front of him. It was a legit penalty, which might not have been called if not for the awful screw up by the refs.
Heh, yeah.
I think this is the first time in all my years of watching the officials blow calls (either against the Pats or against their opponents) that I *actually *got pretty steamed. You never see me do that.
I take human officiating as imperfect as a matter of course, they do their best. My thinking is, if you can’t beat the opposing team so soundly that one blown call wouldn’t have mattered to begin with, then you didn’t beat them well enough. Call it margin of error.
Still, that’s an instance where the ref clearly made a mistake which they should never make, and there isn’t anything they could really do to fix it. It stopped a play in progress which was clean on the Patriots end, and they were going to get tons of yards and/or score, and no one in their right mind would deny that. That’s at least 3 points they were likely to get, or 7.
But, they couldn’t get it done with a fresh set of downs and 15 yards tacked on in their favor.
The game is a very close match so far. Both sides have had opportunities blown, but in this one case it’s all on the officials. So now it’s up to the Pats to beat the Bills, play, drive, and game, or lose to at the very least a better prepared team. And if it’s close, they can always blame it on the official, but if there were a way to have better officiating they’d have implemented it. I’m just going to try to enjoy a football game and root for my Pats. My night is still going a lot better than that referee’s.
You won’t catch me whining if the Pats lose this one. I mean boo hoo. To get outscored at home by the same Bills they beat a few weeks back, and to blame it on one call, I just don’t have it in me. The Pats should have 17 on the board right now. Well, all they gotta do to do that is get the ball back and score. Simple, simple. And if it’s not that simple then maybe the other team deserves to win too, and we’re on to Denver.
Can’t whine too much. If we win several more games this season than one dropped game is more or less meaningless. Life goes on and so does football.
Damn damn damn
Goddamn that NE defense has been heroic, really putting a hurting on that Bills offense. Suddenly the teams do not look evenly matched, but really the difference is the Pats D.
I hate Fg’s since all they do is set you up to lose
Mike and Mike spent an awful lot of time this morning talking about how terrible NFL officiating has been this year and what can be done to fix it. Conclusion: not much. Make them full time, have in-game substitutes for officials, make their evaluations public, a few other ideas were tossed around. Sometimes they can’t get calls right even with replay.
Whether it solves the problem or not, NFL officials probably should be full time employees of the league.
In-game substitutes for officials? What does that mean?
Most of the bad decisions could be fixed by extending replay review. Not this damnfool review the NFL currently has where the head official spends half an hour with his head under a blanket, just a guy in a booth.
ETA: They - Mike Silver I think? - suggested extra officials be ready to “sub in” for guys who screwed up calls. It was a joke, I think.
I heard a joke over the weekend about a Nfl ref on a tv show from 1978
This guy who played college football was complimenting his mother inlaw who was a older ugly woman. And she told him
"If you that blind you shouldn’t be playing football you should be the referee. Lol
So even in the 70’s the officiating was bad
I’d like to say that while NFL refs are not perfect, we’re spoiled by having 1900 cameras in a stadium with instant replay for whenever we want it. Those guys get so many calls right when they see it at game speed and not always from the best angle. They don’t get enough credit for being very good.
I’d like to see some of the philosophy changed - basically, when in doubt, tend to make fewer calls - but their actual execution is remarkably good.
Some of them are slimy though. I know you haBe seen a ref wait for a pass to be caught and if not he throws a flag for pass interference