Officiating

In the pros you have to be touched down and I don't think he was. You can crawl into the endzone as long as you aren't touched. I believe that is what we are referring to.

 

Yes it does. In the NFL you have to be TOUCHED to be considered down, knee down or not.

Anyways...the only person I think could have contacted him, was the guy to Browns right...might have touched him on the helmet.

 

Got it... and I understand the point of the post is that the officiating was horrible.

Either way, it was irrelevant, we scored on the next play. But I get it...

 

Anyways...while the officials were not the best. The did had its worst day when it comes to getting penalized in a good while. That was a huge difference, especially when most of them are dumb personal fouls. While they factored in to the game outcome...still they had chances to win the game (settling for only FGs compared to TDs, etc), and they didn't do it. The end!

 

Just had a look at the Torrey Smith vs. Antwon Blake PI call. Total BS! He wasn't even trying to get to the ball! He clearly planted to get contact and then grabbed Blake! Blake has to have a better ball sense and if he just gets his head around then he's good, but come on! How do you not see what could be considered a flop? That's as much a flop as a punter flailing after he gets tapped.

 

You might be right, but it really doesn't matter. You can't do what Blake did. If Blake had just turned his head and made a play for the ball, he could have ran over Smith and it wouldn't have mattered. You can't run into the WR without at least looking at the ball, it will get called every single time.

 

Unless....you're the Cowboys.

Seriously, though if a receiver initiates contact for the sole purpose of drawing a penalty that has to factor in...

 

No it doesn't, not if the WR appears to be trying to come back to the ball and the DB is running through him. Doesn't matter if the WR bearhugs the DB, as long as the DB is going through him and not looking back, it's going to get called. I just don't get how a professional corner can't get his head around to look for the ball. Maybe we should start drafting WR's to be our CB's

 

That's exactly what happened in the dallas game when the refs picked the flag up, does interference only apply in certain games? I'm really tired of the poor officiating that seems to be getting worse each year, i'm sure there will be more of this low quality inconsistent officiating this week in the division round....

 

It's no better in any other sport.

 

But it can be better, for example before the refs can pick a flag up after a penalty is called there should be a replay review, or like Belichick proposed coach's should be able to challenge a foul called on the field for review.........

 

Expanding the number of calls that are reviewable would be a good move, imo. I'm not sure I buy the arguments that this shouldn't take place. A coach should be able to challenge the result of any play, whether there was a call or not. Same rules as before - only 2 challenges, lose a timeout, etc. - but not restrict what's challengeable or not.

 

It's absolutely coached and intentional that's why it needed to be called. They also practice having their receivers come back and sell PI on under thrown balls. That actually is a tactic that we need to practice and get better at. I can think of a bunch of times this year where our guys could have easily drawn a flag if they came back to the ball a little. The officiating may not have directly cost us the game but it was extremely one sided and definitely didn't help our cause.

 

AB went up for the ball, caught it, was hit mid air by a defender, and came down on his knees. That was contact by the defender that brought him down. He didn't need to have someone else run up and touch his pads while he was on his knees. The contact was already made.

If he had gone up and caught the ball with no contact, and fallen to his knees, he could have crawled or got up and run.

 

**** her