The 'picked up' pass interference flag

Okay, I couldn't tell how egregious the pass interference on Bryant was, but the only referee who was in a good position to make the call throws the flag.....in 99/100 cases, it's cut and dried, the official comes back to the referee, says "I got pass interference on #XX" and the call is made and yardage marked off.

In THIS case, why was a conversation even necessary and what was the substance of the conversation? Are they talking about the 'rule' of what constitutes pass interference? Why in this case did the official really not see what he saw? I can see missing a penalty, but SEEING one and then deciding it really didn't happen?????

I think the officials were AWFUL....I don't mean biased against the Steelers necessarily, but AWFUL in terms of game management, calling out how many timeouts there were, knowing the line of scrimmage, and time, etc. Don't know why we always seem to get the god awful crews on our homefield....unless they ALL are.....

 

That was the one I was most upset with. The referee said there was PI but "no restriction". I guess because the ball hit Bryant? I've never heard that one before. I always thought PI was PI. I've seen it called lots of times even when the receiver makes the catch, so I just don't know what "no restriction" means.

 

Officiating seems to get worse every year, all around the league. The refs are working hard to keep the fudge packers in the game tonight. It's amazing the level of protection some players get from the league.

 

I like the call of face masking by both teams. Face masking #18 offense. Face masking #.....There is no number.....Who ever was rushing the player.

The only thing missing was the Snickers commercial. Want to get away?

 

The officiating was garbage. Those guys looked like high school level officials with some of their explanations of calls, and calls in general. To be fair, Blake got away with pushing down Green in the endzone, and the very next play made the INT... That was overall piss-poor officiating.

 

Gee the ACC suspended the entire crew for botching the Duke game Saturday. Think Rog has the balls to do domething like that?

 

One of the worst things the ref's did was the spot of the ball when Heath reached out and dove for the first down. The ref was right there and he missed it completely. We got it back with the challenge but the original spot was not even close.

 

And on the next Cincy drive, they gave them two back-to-back first down spots that weren't really first downs. Officiating was bad today.

 

I personally loved the taunting call on just us when both players are screaming in each others' face masks

 

Yeah well Mitchel someone needs to beat that bYich to his knees. We get them off the field and Mitchel gives them a 1st down

 

There were 3 stoppages of play at one point in a row! Where there were no injuries, timeouts, or penalties. It's like the officials just decided to blow their whistles and were like "whoops". It's when the bengals were doing all those goofy offensive alignments. Watch the PI call again though, what I'm guessing they meant is the DB did nothing that interfered with Bryant. He had his right hand barely touch his back and Bryant just didn't catch the ball.... Wayyyyyy too many drops today.

 

Officiating was terrible in several games today, not just ours. I sent two tweets directed at good ole Rog stating a billion dollar machine that has a big time problem in terms of its officiating. The officials are ruining games with their calls and then lack of calls. Not sure how I can see holding on my TV set against Bengal lineman but officials on the field can't seem to see it. The officials didn't cost us this game our offense did. As a coach you just want consistency, bad or good and I didn't think that happened today.

 

It was definitely a bad call, and a turning point for us. I believe we'd have won if that call went the other way.

That said, not like we don't have plenty of our own reasons why we lost. Stupid INTs, stupid coaching, only being in the game in the first place because Cincy was as incompetent as us... Still we'd have gotten away with it if the refs hadn't blown that call.

 

The Bengals had the same call go against them, only to have a game changing interception on the next play. Quit blaming the refs, Big Ben and horrible coaching lost this game.

 

Exactly. The call against us that got picked up was far more blatant than their PI call that got picked up.

 

I disagree. I think you're talking about Cockrell knocking the receiver out of bounds in the back of the end zone. Dan Fouts said they didn't call PI because the ball was uncatchable, but I believe the ruling was that the contact occurred before the ball was thrown, and while the quarterback was out of the pocket.

The penalty would have been illegal contact, but because Dalton was on the run and hadn't thrown the ball, it's legal.

 

It was obviously illegal contact, the QB doesn't have to be in the pocket. It would have made it first and goal, at like the 2.

 

I beg to differ. If the QB is out of the pocket, you can hit the receiver, just as if you were still within 5 yards of the line of scrimmage.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Penalty_(gridiron_football)

 

Wow that exception to the rule is actually surprising to me, I had no idea that you could hit the receiver once the QB leaves the pocket. I am surprised more teams don't just knock the receiver down once the QB scrambles.

 

I think it's tough, because by that time, the receiver is running away from them, and they're trailing. And you have to know the QB is out of the pocket. The easiest time to knock the receiver down is on a crossing route or flat route, within 5 yards. Troy used to do it to unsuspecting TEs and FBs all the time. It was awesome.

I have no idea of Cockrell even knew Dalton was out of the pocket. I think he probably just lucked out.

 

Yeah I was thinking more about the safeties and linebackers, the corners are rarely watching the QB.

 

Exactly and WHY would you ever taunt AJ Green?? I mean Mitchell is not even close to the player Green is. Not to mention that, on that particular play, Green wasn't even targeted. Then who scores the winning TD? Green.

 

Man I was thinking about this, it seems like the offense could really exploit this rule, the receiver could essentially push down the defensive back on planned plays when the QB leaves the pocket. Once the QB sees the defensive back fall down he throws for an easy TD.

 

I was at the game, actually it looked clean to me.

I didn't see the game on TV, but how was that INT by the Bengals on the sideline, it looked like he might have used the ground to catch the ball, or he might have not have caught it in bounds.

I think I would have reviewed that one? What did everyone else see?

 

I thought all turnovers were reviewed automatically? Or am I making that up? They didn't seem to spend long looking at it.