- 3 Refs miss a clear foul as Seahawks player intentionally bats fumble out of end zone
- a 10 yard penalty should have been assessed and ball given to Lions
- it was within 2min and it could have been reviewed
= Should have been 1st & Goal at 6 inch line with a 1:30 min left in game down by 3
Refs Impact the Result of yet another Game!
Last edited by Mike; 10-05-2015 at 09:30 PM.
Please Make Sense
djjimkelly (10-05-2015),Victor7 (10-06-2015)
Weird things happen up there
You can call me streetkings
http://es.pn/1VCqBgG
Here's ESPN's explanation
There is No conspiracy or favoritism it's just poor quality control & officiating consistency
Refs have been a disgrace this year.
upstart (10-06-2015)
I'd bet the only ref who knew the rule was the guy on ESPN.
But I can hear Hank Stram from his grave, screaming "how can all 6 of you miss that play?"
And Bryce Brown smiled when Megatron did his thing.
Imitation is the sincerest form of flattery.
swiper (10-06-2015)
Refs aren't perfect - did ya know that? Watch football at ground level in real time and see if you can make the perfect call every time. Even so, the ball was going OOB anyway and it probably looked like he was trying to field it. If not, RW had 2min on the clock left..Originally Posted by Mike
I absolutely recognize that the refs have a nearly impossible job.
However, this is why I am such a proponent of penalty instant replay review.
Billszone 2013 Prediction Contest winner!
GvilleBills (10-06-2015),Mike (10-06-2015),starrymessenger (10-06-2015)
Why not have dedicated cameras and officials view the film. They call it from booth with only two actual field refs to relay that information?
i get that the game is fast. But with a legislative book that is becoming absurd, pretending they know all the rules is tiring
GvilleBills (10-06-2015)
Can't fault the ref, clearly he didn't have a good look at it.
BertSquirtgum (10-06-2015),EricStratton (10-06-2015),Fixxxer (10-06-2015),GvilleBills (10-06-2015),Jeff1220 (10-06-2015),TacklingDummy (10-06-2015),Typ0 (10-07-2015),upstart (10-06-2015),Victor7 (10-06-2015)
Great picture.
That terrible call helped me out
It screwed me.
Get it back on LSU Saturday.
I agree with your point on instant replay review for penalties.
How could that be done? More coaches challenges?
You can't review them all, I don't think.
That would have added about 30 more stoppages in Sunday's game if all we reviewed.
It's Pete Carroll so there is some kind of conspiracy. Maybe it doesn't involve the refs but I have a hard time believing he's not pulling a Belicheck somehow based on his history at USC.
That's the problem with refs, they're human, therefore imperfect. There needs to oversight, and stop trying to sell these part timers as unquestionably sound.
Diehard BillGator... best of both worlds
The fact that the NFL has done NOTHING to improve officiating over the past 5 years is a complete and utter disgrace. They are ruining the game. Between the terrible calls league wide, the blatant missed calls and the incompetence of the replay system, the game is becoming unwatchable. I seriously have had less enjoyment watching games this year so far than ever before. I live for football Sundays, but it's becoming very painful to watch. That, and the hours of freaking stoppages during a game. I swear I watch more commercials for How To Get Away With Murder every Sunday than I do actual football. It's disgusting.
BillsImpossible (10-06-2015),OpIv37 (10-06-2015),psubills62 (10-06-2015),trapezeus (10-06-2015)
Can't be, we've been told the refs are always right. We're not allowed to criticize them.
Really a terrible, terrible non-call.
They really need to start pushing the "incontrovertible evidence" aspect so they can review more calls. Get rid of this "non-reviewable" crap. Let a reviewer see the play twice from a good angle. If he/she is still unsure, then keep the call on the field, otherwise overturn it. Basically, if something is blatantly obvious, then it's not hard to see it after viewing it a couple times. It's really tiring to see judgment calls made that strongly impact the game that turn out to be horrendously bad calls by the ref.
I don't expect the refs to get everything right, but come on. That was downright awful.
At least they showed a replay of it, though. Most teams don't even get that benefit.
Hey, maybe for every play, they should show a replay and let the viewing public text in regarding what the call should be. Right? Right??
Last edited by psubills62; 10-06-2015 at 09:43 AM.
"Misguided political correctness tethers our intellects."
- Nicholas Cummings
Of course humans make mistakes, but they make far too many of them and it is affecting the outcome of the game. Between the league's inability to keep NE from cheating and the incompetence of the refs, I'm really losing confidence that the team playing the best will actually win the game.
GvilleBills (10-06-2015)
Personally, I find it a little strange that the rule is written how it is regarding fumbling out the end zone.
So in the normal field of play, if someone fumbles the ball forward and it goes out of bounds, that team retains possession and it goes back to the spot where the player fumbled it. Why isn't it the same for the end zone? I don't think it makes sense to automatically give the ball to a team that never obtained possession of it during the play.
Its been going on for quite some time, not just this year. But I do agree it seems to have gotten worst.
Do Kyle Williams' words make more sense now to those posters who said we were making excuses ?? The refs do screw up. More often than not. They freaking stink. Specially the inexperienced crews like the one's we've had in the 2 penalty infested weeks. I mean yesterday's crew was Tony Corrente's. That guy is one of the few good ones. And even he messed up.
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