The reversal of the fumble that Sean Smith caused was a JOKE. Wasn't even close and we got screwed. Thankfully, we still won.
Some of those calls were straight up unreal. Everyone watching the game with me was SO certain about some of those calls, like the fumbles, and I was like "watch this". Unbelievable
Didn't something similar happen with aj green ? Either way. The guy is a joke. I didn't need to know his name, I saw his face and knew the bs calls would come flying
Smith didn't force it but he made the play. A football move is a football move even if the fumble was knocked out by the man who has possession. Great awareness by Trusnik to pick it up. We got raped on that call.
absolutely, I told my girlfriend all about it the moment I saw his face. I am thinking about uploading a picture of his face on a computer then sticking a roll of toilet paper through my printer!
The crews don't stay the same every year. In the Steelers game 2010, we were equally screwed by the head linesman making the TD call too quickly. That was Jeff Bergman. He is now on Walt Coleman's crew that officiated our game with the Bengals. Before you say Steratore has it in for the Dolphins, consider the Rams were flagged 12 times for 94 yards, and we were flagged 5 times for 40.
In all fairness the yardage was not the killer with the calls. I thought longs holding call was bs, But both fumbles and that touch down dive were too much for me
I don't know for sure who threw the flag on Long, but it could have been the umpire rather than Steratore, since the umpire is more on that side behind the line, while the ref is back and to the right. I agree on both fumbles, but I thought Bradford broke the plane with the ball.
The officiating in that game was simply horrible. That is simply too many questionable calls all benefiting one team.
I sort of like this thread. Usually only good teams and the Raiders blame the referees. Even better when there actually were some egregiously bad calls.
I think he's one of the best referees in the game, but I did think he was going to rip Pouncey a new one when He was announcing the penalty and told Pouncey to stop and not walk in front of him. Pouncey waved him off and did it anyway and Steratore glared at him for a long time.
Firstly if Chris Givens didn't fumble then Legedu Naanee didn't fumble against the Cardinals. Those were similar. 2 crews...2 different results and the NFL need to be consistent. Secondly, they need to get rid of that damn "Tuck rule". It's absolutely BS!!!
I don't recall anyone even knowing it existed til the officials pulled it out of their asses to negate that Brady fumble in the now so called tuck rule game against the Raiders.
not that it matters, but if the Referee is standing behind the right side of the line, his keys are the QB AND LT, he won't be watching the right side of the line. of course it does depend on where the qb rolls. i hate the umpire in the backfield, leaves a lot of holding and chop blocks out of their view
With both the referee and umpire behind the offense most of the time, the umpire has the better view of the LT and the ref has the better view of the RT. At some point, the umpire moves to his traditional spot behind the linebackers. Don't recall just when they do this however. At the time Long got flagged though, the ump was behind the offense.
