Refs suck again

[Mr. Miyagi]

How can they not make these calls??

"Just give it to them."

[BillsWin]

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It's borderline rigged. Lack of penalties today is getting out of hand.

[Novacane]

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Bills suck way worse than the refs.

[trapezeus]

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It's pathetic. There were a number of holding calls that they let go. The tuck rule on fitz's first fumble.

[zone]

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not to mention 3 overlooked helmet to helmet hits.

[Ingtar33]

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i think Fitz's 5 turnovers and Spiller's 2 more had more to do with this loss then the refs.

[Yasgur's Farm]

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I have 1 question... Spiller's 1st fumble. No question the ball came loose. But the whistle blew before it was recovered. That being the case, isn't the play dead with the ball returning to the Bills... PERIOD!!?

Unlike a couple weeks ago... The whistle blew after the Bills recovered and before it was taken to the endzone. We got the ball after review... But we didn't get the TD.

[Novacane]

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It may have only been 27-3 if we could have gotten a couple of those holding calls.

[Yasgur's Farm]

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Proof the refs did not rig the game... Brady was touched without penalty.

[Buddo]

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i think Fitz's 5 turnovers and Spiller's 2 more had more to do with this loss then the refs.

I'd certainly agree with the above, but the officiating was poor, again, today. Some pretty obvious stuff missed, illegal leading with the helmet being let go a lot. Holding was also let go a lot.

Another observation I would make, is that better teams 'play' the officials much better, in terms of working out what they can get away with, where. This would go across a lot of sports btw, not just football.

[Johnny Bugmenot]

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This happens every year. I looked at the stats a couple of years back. In all these games the Pats get called for a ridiculously small number of penalties (3 or less). There is officiating shenanigans going on and because of the NFL's gag order on criticizing officials no one is able to call them out on it.

[DraftBoy]

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Every week this thread occurs. Do people really believe there is some conspiracy theory against the Bills via the refs?

People who ***** about not getting holding calls don't know football, on every play in football holding happens on both sides of the ball.

The refs are going to miss calls, every game. But they are never going to be the reason you lose or win a game, they are simply people's excuses.

[Ingtar33]

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I have 1 question... Spiller's 1st fumble. No question the ball came loose. But the whistle blew before it was recovered. That being the case, isn't the play dead with the ball returning to the Bills... PERIOD!!?

Unlike a couple weeks ago... The whistle blew after the Bills recovered and before it was taken to the endzone. We got the ball after review... But we didn't get the TD.

they changed the rule last year...

basically, since the refs are supposed to blow the whistle if the ball is dead, fumbles which were not called fumbles on the field were unreviewable.

In order to make them reviewable, they had to change the rules for recovering a football after a whistle.

Now... IF there is clear and irrefutable evidence of who recovered a lost ball after a whistle (no dog pile, obvious clear line of sight recovery)... AND the recovery happened almost immediately around the time the whistle was blown (within a second or two) then the ball is proven through replay to be fumbled, the ball will be given to the recovering team at the spot of the recovery (the ball can't be advanced after the whistle is blown)

[Johnny Bugmenot]

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Every week this thread occurs. Do people really believe there is some conspiracy theory against the Bills via the refs?

Just when the Pats are in Ralph Wilson Stadium. Otherwise the refs have pretty much played it straight. But blow the trends off all you want.

[trapezeus]

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The holdings not being called were eye popping , defense got around the lineman tackle kinda holds. It was absurd. Then their DBS weren't even turning around and making contact and no calls. Drayton Florence had a 4 week string getting called on the same ****. The pats are untouchable.