Post all of the silly ridiculous calls or missed calls from any games by the replacement refs here. Should be fun, I'll start. In the Jets/Steelers game Mark Sanchez throws a pass to Holmes over the middle who is absolutely cracked by Clark and drops the ball. It was a legal hit everyone agreed, announcers etc. Okay now the funny part. They throw the flag on the hit which happened well after Holmes touches the ball....except they call pass interference on the corner who never touched Holmes from the snap on and spot the ball where Clark leveled him. None of the announcers nor myself could figure out what the hell had just happened.
That's a great block! I would be okay with getting any sort of penalty on that one if my guy is hitting someone like that every down.
No it wasnt...to be fair to the replacements, who have made some bad calls, this wasnt one of them....the flag for Personal Foul was on DAL #54 on this play hitting Sea QB Wilson for late hit out of bounds (although that was ticky-tack)....you may have been confused cause the announcers thought a flag may have been thrown for the block by Sea WR on DAL LB, but in the end the announcers were wrong, and the PF helped SEA and nothing was called on this block. OFFICIAL PLAY BY PLAY 4th QTR 2-12-SEA 22 (13:18) 3-R.Wilson scrambles left end ran ob at SEA 36 for 14 yards. PENALTY on DAL-54-B.Carter, Unnecessary Roughness, 15 yards, enforced at SEA 36.
Since it was a LEGAL BLOCK I would be pissed if a flag was thrown.... If it was a PERSONAL FOUL I would be pissed for my team's player to commit it. Its not an either or...play the game correctly, and that means no PERSONAL FOULS or UNNECESSARY ROUGHNESS cause that's undisciplined football and not what I want from my team. Intelligent passion or controlled aggression is not the same as getting a PF call. But again, this block was not a penalty...it was clean, and called correctly by the refs in this case. Knowing the NFL, he probably could get fined, but that's just part of the watering down to protect vulnerable/defenseless players.
In the Jets game, Ryan challenged that PIT fumbled the ball (which they did); the ruling on the field was not a fumble. In the replay it was: a) evident it was a fumble. And b) even more evident the runner was down by contact behind the original line of scrimmage (also reversible in a challenge). Refs missed both while looking at the play in the booth.
That play was also ridiculous. To be fair though it wasn't a fumble since his knee was down about ten yards prior but I get what you mean. It was indeed a fumble in the context of the original challenge. The Steelers deserved that break though after some of the ridiculous PI calls against them.
Scab Refs I'm liking these scabs better than the veteran refs so far. I've seen physical play between corners and WR's, and a lot less ticky tack flags. Anyone with me? No sense of entitlement or favoritism has been evident in the games I've watched the last few weeks. I love that some of the typical BS PI calls were overlooked in favor of allowing the players to play. Now if only Wake would get calls 1/2 of every time he gets held. Seems like that is the only constant with the refs.
I stand corrected then.. I watched roughly 8 games in total the past 2 weeks and probably missed the blatant / obvious bad calls. From the games I've seen, despite a few issues with the rulebook that were fixed, they seemed to be doing good and allowing for a bit more physicality on the field.
That's the one benefit of the replacements, getting more physical play down the field. For a team like us, that would seem beneficial. And most fans probably like it. But then Nolan Carroll got a phantom PI call on that gave Oakland the ball down on the 16 yard line. Other teams had bigger calls go against them. Beyond that, offensive holding isn't being called. And some of the gaffes have been quite egregious. The duration of the games has also increased.
The Raiders don't score that TD if holding was called. The Steelers got called for a PI when the CB didn't even touch the WR. Mike P said it best.
Patriots can make a similar case. wasn't there a phantom holding call that cost them a TD to win the game?
From what i have seen they arent calling PI at all just defensive holding which is only a 5 yarder not at the spot of the foul like PI. Holding isn't being called at all. They flat out miss a lot of calls. For example in yesterdays Rams-Redskins game Steven Jackson clearly broke the plain for a TD and instead of calling it a TD so it at least gets automatically reviewed like all scoring plays they marked it down at the one. They did the same thing last week in the NYG Dallas game. These guys are affecting the quality of games pretty consistently in a very negative way. The regular refs aren't perfect but these guys flat out stink.
These refs are horrific. Yesterday alone, they treid to take the game away from Philly..then replay saved the Eagles. They in fact took away a TD from St. Louis and divine justice handed the Rams the win. The Patriots just got screwed outright.
MERGE??? http://www.thephins.com/forums/showthread.php?72071-Official-LOLRefs-Thread&p=1854594#post1854594
By the way, talk about a Personal Foul being the bone-head of all bone-head reactions...just watch the Redskins last possession and the WR being immature and unable to control emotions and cost his team.
Oh god I forgot about that play! Vick gets hit while throwing the ball and they call it a fumble. Except the ball ended up five yards forward in the direction his arm was moving. That was sickening.
Anyone see Alex Smith slide feet first and get a flying elbow in the face? Even cut the bridge of his nose and was a no call. Yet in Cowboys Seahawks game a Cowboy touches his hand on the side of Seawaks QB head and it's a fifteen yard penalty.
Happened in our game too. They called Jimmy Wilson for his hit on Palmer but someone smacked Tannehill in the face and I believe on another play grabbed his facemask with no call...
That hit on Alex Smith was so ridiculous. It pissed me off and I couldn't careless about who won that game.
