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The chiefs should have just held gronk up and pushed him onto the endzone right before before the td run by the pats. Why because the pats weere going to score anyways and you wouldnhave then had n extra 10 to 12 seconds a another timeout. The phantom roughing call was horrile but if Ford lines up onsides the chiefs win this game. Ill watch the super bowl but with it being Rams and Patriots im really not interested in it at all.

 

What a crazy day of football...

 

Oh make no mistake, they had a big problem admitting the call was blown. Its just it was so obvious there was no possible way they could spin their way out of it so they had no choice.

But they would've tried if they could. See the stupid as F and insulting explanation after the Zach Miller no-TD leg break catch in the same stadium and a hundred other examples.

 

It just bugs the hell out of me that they are so quick to admit they were wrong and right after the game. Apparently, they watched video... they should have on the field.

 

The league actually admits to blown calls quite often they just dont usually do it so quick.

 

Patriots breaking their own records, challenging all-timers...

What the Patriots are doing right now, is historic, to say the least.

But they’re close to erasing any claim by another franchise for the title of best ever, and breaking their own records in the process.

Via NBC Sports Bay Area, the Patriots hit a number of impressive milestones with last night’s AFC Championship Game win over the Chiefs.

For starters, it’s their 15th postseason win of the 2010s, breaking the record of 14 wins in a decade set by the, . . . wait for it, . . . 2000s Patriots (along with the 70s Steelers and 70s Cowboys).

It was also their 36th overall win in the postseason, tying the Steelers for the most ever.

If they beat the Rams, they’d eclipse that total, and tie the Steelers with six Super Bowl wins, the most ever.

The fact they’ve won all those Super Bowls with the same coach and same quarterback (and wastly different personnel around them) speaks to the incredible accomplishment of those two men. (PFT)
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Truly a remarkable and amazing thing to have seen. You gotta give them credit.

 

What bugs me is when they make a bad call on the field and players start pointing furiously at the replays on the big screen. Surely they must know at that point they've prob screwed up but consciously choose not to look up and just stick with the call.

Maybe there is a rule forbidding them from watching the replay as its not official footage, and of course if they did use it then they would in fact be using video replay to overturn something that can't be reviewed.......but its still damned annoying sometimes.

 

Its just stupid, that in 2019, with all this techno crap, they cant do the right thing. You made the call, I made the call, the guy's in the booth, even the NFL and its officiating crew made the right call after the fact and that's whats bugs me. It is possible to get it right, so why they dont implement changes (maybe now they will) is waaaay beyond me.

Anyway, im done beating this dead horse, lol. They ref's, the NFL, all will wake up and say, hey!... we gotta fix this and asap. Oh wait, this has been going on for ever... nevermind. I lost my mind for a second and thought the League would do the right thing. I need to increase my meds or something.

 

Actually no, relative to how many blown calls there are overall, the number of "admits" by the NFL is a tiny proportion.

And why would they? That would be counter-intuitive. We know how keen the NFL is to keep the power in the hands of the on-field officials, for a variety of reasons. If they were admitting to bad calls as often as you seem to think they would be willfully and actively undermining their own objective re this and they're not gonna do that.


The key is letting go of this notion that by over-ruling decisions re penalties you are fatally undermining the credibility of officials. Because A- They've got none left anyway as it stands and B- Its an impossible demand to make in many cases imo. The NFL asks officials to make more difficult judgement calls on more things than they ever have done before. I don't believe what they're expecting in terms of results is humanly possible much of the time.

If your gonna do that then there's gonna be more mistakes, its unavoidable. So you HAVE to create a mechanism to compensate for that. You have to allow for bad calls on penalties to be over-ruled. It really is a question of when, not if.

 

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I didn't see the game. Was that really a penalty???

 

In a word . . . No.

 

Sure was and helped get the Pats down the field for a touchdown.

 

If you're a ref, in live action, I can see how that could happen so fast you might want to call a penalty. However, that's because the protections for QB's have come so ridiculously far, and refs have so much to watch on a per-play basis. Then you throw in the fact that penalties aren't reviewable, no one else was watching that, and the players sure as shit aren't going to tell you the truth.

It obviously wasn't a penalty. The refs this year have been so outstandingly horrific - and it's gotten worse each year. The league very obviously hasn't taken this seriously enough, and needs to do something about it. They won't, but... they need to.

 

I meant that it had gotten called. I didn't see the game, so wouldn't have known whether it was called or not. It sure as shit shouldn't have been.

Games decided by refereeing? In the NFL? Who could have seen that coming?

 

If Roger Goodell had the balls, he could reverse the Saints/Rams result and let the Saints go to the Super Bowl, it WAS that bad of a call, but he will never do it as people have alluded to already, it would undermine the game's officials too much.

 

Updated first round selection order:

1 Arizona 3-13
2 San Francisco 4-12
3 NY Jets 4-12
4 Oakland 4-12
5 Tampa Bay 5-11
6 NY Giants 5-11
7 Jacksonville 5-11
8 Detroit 6-10
9 Buffalo 6-10
10 Denver 6-10
11 Cincinnati 6-10
12 Green Bay 6-9-1
13 Miami 7-9
14 Atlanta 7-9
15 Washington 7-9
16 Carolina 7-9
17 Cleveland 7-8-1
18 Minnesota 8-7-1
19 Tennessee 9-7
20 Pittsburgh 9-6-1
21 Seattle 10-6
22 Baltimore 10-6
23 Houston 11-5
24 Oakland (from Chicago) 12-4
25 Philadelphia 9-7
26 Indianapolis 10-6
27 Oakland (from Dallas) 10-6
28 LA Chargers 12-4
29 Kansas City 12-4
30 Green Bay (from New Orleans) 13-3
31 TBD (LA Rams or New England)
32 TBD (LA Rams or New England)