How can a player grab the facemask, bloddy the guy's nose & not get a penalty?

[Albany,n.y.]

Before the Jets TD a Jets player grabs a Bills players facemask, rips off his helmet, gives him a bloody nose & there's no 15 yard penalty.
Total BS call.

[IlluminatusUIUC]

Re: How can a player grab the facemask, bloddy the guy's nose & not get a penalty?

Yeah that was a garbage non-call. And what's worse, the evidence of it is sitting right there on the field!

[stuckincincy]

Re: How can a player grab the facemask, bloddy the guy's nose & not get a penalty?

Before the Jets TD a Jets player grabs a Bills players facemask, rips off his helmet, gives him a bloody nose & there's no 15 yard penalty.
Total BS call.

Poor Bills. Everybody picks on them. That explains the playoff dearth.

[Meathead]

Re: How can a player grab the facemask, bloddy the guy's nose & not get a penalty?

bloddy well right

[YardRat]

Re: How can a player grab the facemask, bloddy the guy's nose & not get a penalty?

Probably hard to see in the pile, in real time. I didn't know what happened until I saw the replays.

[Forward_Lateral]

Re: How can a player grab the facemask, bloddy the guy's nose & not get a penalty?

Bills got away with a few too. I thought the game was actually pretty well officiated compared to most of the other games this year.

[ICRockets]

Re: How can a player grab the facemask, bloddy the guy's nose & not get a penalty?

Probably hard to see in the pile, in real time. I didn't know what happened until I saw the replays.

Yeah, but it isn't your job.

[feldspar]

Re: How can a player grab the facemask, bloddy the guy's nose & not get a penalty?

Illegal hands-to-the-face.

[Cleve]

Re: How can a player grab the facemask, bloddy the guy's nose & not get a penalty?

Pretty blatant and obvious penalty. Well, at least penalties didn't decide the game. Nice to see for a change. There were only 8 penalties total - the Bills with 5 for 44 yards - one of them was that incredibly stupid delay of game penalty though.... so for the Bills it was a big improvement over previous games.

Ball security was the decider last night. The stats were pretty even except in the area of turnovers - Jets had 4, and a couple Fitzpatrick interceptions - amazing that guy is still starting games in the NFL. I'm just glad his garbage helps us instead of hurts us - I feel the Jets' fans pain watching him. LOL

[Victor7]

Re: How can a player grab the facemask, bloddy the guy's nose & not get a penalty?

Big time miss from the ****ty refs. Jets scored on the very next play.

And not the only one. Jets got a couple of very generous spots on two 3rd down plays that ended up as first downs.

They also missed the obvious and clear as day incomplete pass to Decker that Rex had to challenge.

Same old ****ty officiating.

[Cleve]

Re: How can a player grab the facemask, bloddy the guy's nose & not get a penalty?

They also missed the obvious and clear as day incomplete pass to Decker that Rex had to challenge.

What I find worse - why does the coach lose a challenge when the coach is found to be right??? What a dumb rule. The only time a challenge should be taken away is when the challenge is determined to be incorrect. Why penalize the team for challenging something that should be challenged? I know they want to prevent frivilous challenges, but that will be accomplished by losing a challenge when wrong.

[Albany,n.y.]

Re: How can a player grab the facemask, bloddy the guy's nose & not get a penalty?

Illegal hands-to-the-face.

You're right, it should have been 10 yards not the 15 yards I wanted for a personal foul. I got carried away because he gave him a bloody nose.

[Victor7]

Re: How can a player grab the facemask, bloddy the guy's nose & not get a penalty?

You're right, it should have been 10 yards not the 15 yards I wanted for a personal foul. I got carried away because he gave him a bloody nose.

10 or 15 it doesn't really matter IMO. They scored on the next play. No way in hell they do it with 10 more yards to go. Big time screw up from the refs

[Cleve]

Re: How can a player grab the facemask, bloddy the guy's nose & not get a penalty?

10 or 15 it doesn't really matter IMO. They scored on the next play. No way in hell they do it with 10 more yards to go. Big time screw up from the refs

The officials are also very inconsistent - it depends on WHO the penalty was against. They would have thrown a late flag for sure, even if they hadn't seen it, if the league's two biggest cry-babies, Brady and Manning, had started whining about illegal hands to their faces after a play. How many times have we seen those late flags miraculously appear on the field after those two start crying?

[BillsOwnAll]

Re: How can a player grab the facemask, bloddy the guy's nose & not get a penalty?

I thougt it was great not seeing a penalty every play by either team, I hate what the NFL is becoming, let them play.