*Games Around The League - Week 3*

I don't know which call was right, but the whole play was just nuts.

 

How? The defender clearly intercepted the ball and had the ball pressed against his chest. He had two hands and the chest on the ball, and the Seattle player had a hand on the ball. The Seattle player did not have possession of the ball.

There is no way anyone can interpret that as a catch by Golden Tate.

 

Hey I remember there wasn't a big uproar when the Dolphins got robbed against the Steelers a few years ago. It was "Well they shouldn't kick so many field goals."

 

Not when he came down the ball. The player has to complete the catch. By the time the Green Bay player had "completed" the catch Tate had both hands around the ball. The tie goes to the receiver.

The Green Bay player should have knocked the ball down.

 

PAT wins me my fantasy game!!!!!!!!!1

 

It was close and obviously a touchdown.

 

That was offensive pass interference on Golden Tate on the last play of the game and the defender caught the ball and maintained possession to the ground.

But that's not all. I agree with Jon Gruden with the supposed pass interference by Sam Shields. If anything, the WR should have been flagged. What's more, I thought that was very questionable roughing the passer on that same earlier drive.

 

I agree with the bold part. That should have been called.

 

Roger Goodell is quickly turning in to a villian. The integrity of the game is at stake now

 

Tate got his hands on the ball before the catch was completed. It isn't a catch until the player has both feet on the ground. By that time Tate had both hands on the ball. That is an offensive catch. That has always been an offensive catch since I have watched football in the mid 80s.

 

You know, the normal refs are just as much at fault as Goodell on this issue.

 

I saw it differently. Looked like a touchdown, I have seen many plays similar called touchdowns.

 

You can't be serious?

 

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The amazing thing is he then went to the booth to review it and upheld it! The other ref on that play was getting ready to signal a touchback then the other one runs up and signal td

 

Can't go low on QB, especially after he throws, think the regular refs make that call the majority of the time. I only saw the play once though so I could be wrong. The PI call was horrible and don't really need to even talk about the last play.

 

How in the hell does the guy at the pylon have that view.
It is a sad day when the announcers can make better calls than what is going on with the game. With officials.
This will be a firestorm. Just wait. Going to be a fun Tuesday morning.

 

I don't think they could award possession one way or the other off of the replay, only determine if there was indeed a catch (based off what the retired ref that NBC had in the booth said). In other words the review could only yield, no TD & no Interception OR a TD, but not an INT.

 

The announcers have a slight bit more time to process (and no pressure), so that's a little unfair IMO, but really the technology as it stands makes it a lot easier to see right and wrong calls. That's why the games should be more like college review/referee system.

 

I could be on heroin and know that was the wrong call. What about the Sydney Rice call. Offensive PI. That should be talked about as well.

 

I'm not talking about strictly the very last call, just in general. And yea, the Rice thing I thought was offensive PI too, but PI calls and non-calls have been stupid all year for every team.

 

I'm not sure how you could be more wrong. Tate had one arm on the football. If that is a catch to you I'm worried.

 

Where did I say it was a catch? However you can catch passes with one arm, and you can even catch passes while there is a defender's body between you and the ball, so the fact that Tate only had one arm on the ball shouldn't be the determination one way or the other.

And as I said, I am relaying what the retired ref in the NBC booth said about the limitations of review, not whether I thought it should have been overturned or not.

 

I understand you are on the fence. Good move.

 

I won a fantasy game over this (in a free league at least) so I can't criticize too hard one way or the other.

 

AWFUL call game was given to Seattle but I have seen plenty of bad calls to plenty of teams where the Refs refuse to throw an obvious call or throw a phantom call. It has always been there but it happens to every team and it finally happened tot he Packers.