I am DONE with the NFL.

Hard to overcome the refs scoring 13 points on phantom calls

I know that PI was BS/bogus/ embarrassing to the Officials. Did it change the game? Who knows. Totally crap 2nd half saw to that imo.

Those calls totally changed the game. 13 points most likely would have come off the board without referee interference.

That said, this team needs to do a better job of responding to adversity. It seems like they do great when everything is going according to script, but when things go wrong (and in this game and in the Baltimore game it was bad calls against the secondary) they don't respond well.

It's sad to say that really bad calls against anybody playing New England are part of the game. Luckily, Brady really looks his age. He looked terrified on several plays that actually worked out for the Patriots. I think he'll retire soon because he doesn't want to get hit any more.

The biggest mistake of the day came from the head coach, who failed to throw his red flag on the Rasheed Matthews catch and instead punted the ball, when we had a first down inside the Patriots 40.

Matthews made that catch.

I'll admit the refs sucked today, but the O-line sucked worse.

The batting the ball call was just atrocious. So, wtf does it look like when someone is diving and trying to grab the ball, but can't get total control. That has to be an obvious, blatant foul, but that surely was not. Horrible call.

That call on Vernon may be the worst call I've ever seen. It's BLATANTLY obvious he's trying to grab the ball and it was a bit out of his reach and rolled forward. Such BS. 40 yard ****ing penalty.

Those calls took away every bit of momentum we had.

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"Rocky Raccoon wrote:

That call on Vernon may be the worst call I've ever seen. It's BLATANTLY obvious he's trying to grab the ball and it was a bit out of his reach and rolled forward. Such BS. 40 yard ****ing penalty.

Worst call I've seen in 26 years of watching and playing football. Completely changed the game. Those refs should be let go immediately following.

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"72 Dolphins wrote:

The biggest mistake of the day came from the head coach, who failed to throw his red flag on the Rasheed Matthews catch and instead punted the ball, when we had a first down inside the Patriots 40.

Matthews made that catch.

I'll admit the refs sucked today, but the O-line sucked worse.

Maybe his logic was that there was no way these refs were gonna overturn that call

"72 Dolphins wrote:

The biggest mistake of the day came from the head coach, who failed to throw his red flag on the Rasheed Matthews catch and instead punted the ball, when we had a first down inside the Patriots 40.

Matthews made that catch.

I'll admit the refs sucked today, but the O-line sucked worse.

You're kidding yourself if you think the refs overturn that.

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"Rocky Raccoon wrote:

That call on Vernon may be the worst call I've ever seen. It's BLATANTLY obvious he's trying to grab the ball and it was a bit out of his reach and rolled forward. Such BS. 40 yard ****ing penalty.

The Wilson pass interference call was right up there.

"FanMarino wrote:

I know that PI was BS/bogus/ embarrassing to the Officials. Did it change the game? Who knows. Totally crap 2nd half saw to that imo.

Crap second half surely... but my goodness... the defense had not given up until after the batting call. They were going to stop the Pats... it was going to be third and forever... they would have had to punt and we were only going to be down by three. And that's just the 3rd call... lets not even talk about how the Pats got back into the game with their first points... a field goal... nor the holding on Patterson that gave them a first down instead of being faced with a fourth down. Pats took the lead a few plays later. I can't recall three calls that were so bad so blatant to decide the game... one or two maybe... not three...

"72 Dolphins wrote:

The biggest mistake of the day came from the head coach, who failed to throw his red flag on the Rasheed Matthews catch and instead punted the ball, when we had a first down inside the Patriots 40.

Matthews made that catch.

I'll admit the refs sucked today, but the O-line sucked worse.

no he didn't... he never got two feet (or one foot and one hand) down before his left ankle came down out of bounds... watch it again.

"Paul 13 wrote:

no he didn't... he never got two feet (or one foot and one hand) down before his left ankle came down out of bounds... watch it again.

I did watch it...he planted the first foot and the second dragged. It was a catch.

How bout we lost because we are a young inexperienced team that hasn't figured out how to over come adversity and close out games.. The refs do what they do, we need to score points..

Right now I am right there with you Paul... Unbelievable calls... I will not be renewing Sunday Ticket or buying anymore NFL stuff.

This makes the WWE look real...

There was a Tannehill knockdown that I thought garnered a penalty(Brady would have got it) and a defenseless receiver hit for Mathews that could have helped.

"72 Dolphins wrote:

I did watch it...he planted the first foot and the second dragged. It was a catch.

I don't know what you saw but that wasn't it.

I'm sorry but Philbin needs to speak up about it. He should have a meltdown in his press conference. Ross should pay his fine. If they don't they are as bad as the refs for just taking it.

Wow.

I can see I'm going to need to stay away from certain topics for a little while.

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Philbin concedes that his team disagreed with the illegal batting call.

he should do more than concede.

"ckparrothead wrote:

Wow.

I can see I'm going to need to stay away from certain topics for a little while.

so much for that... so the refs were correct?

There are always plays that don't go a teams way ,in the end whoever makes more plays usually wins,today Miami made to few plays in the second half.
We find ways to lose it seems instead of ways to win.

Those three calls, make it really difficult to trust anything the NFL does at this point. I know its easy for us to say that because we're Dolphins fans, and the calls went against us, but what makes it better, is the commentary by Nantz and Simms at least called out both the calls against Wilson, and Patterson as awful. Nantz thought the call on Vernon was awful as well, Simms however didnt. So, at least those who may watch this game will hear that to go along with seeing the calls.

It's just awful to see those kinds of things happen in professional sports.

The Vernon call to me is the worst though, I think its obvious by watching that play that Vernon is trying to get the ball and swipe it to himself, not hit it down the field, but just how his hand hits the ball, and the odd shape of a football and it goes further down the field. The officials in that case are in the spot of trying to interpret a players intentions... now its up to whatever the official feels like. I know other calls in football work that way too, but its usually more obvious, more cut and dry that the player either did, or didnt commit a foul. In this case, its open ended, its whatever the ref decides. It puts the game in his hands, rather than the players. That... that's just not right IMO.