jcrack

i feel u..this game was wierd for sure..it felt like it was played in slow motion haha

CheerforTom

I agree with this. The 16-0 BB of last year does not settle for a field goal with 4th and 1 on the 10 yard line.

Bonzo

The Thomas call was the least questionable call, wasn't it? I know that in slow-mo, it's hard to tell just how long the incident occurs after the play was finished, but it looked automatic to me.

How about the dang spot of the ball on the same play? I was so certain it was a 1st that I was cheering despite the flag.

jcdavey

wasn't similar

now if NE would have had a 7 point lead and peyton would have fumbled the ball into the waiting hands of adalius thomas, with just under 2 minutes left in the game, and then the ref decided to strip NE of the ball and award possession back to indy, at the pats 10, and give them another chance, sure, then you'd know what week 2 felt like for a chargers fan lol

ALP

lol...guys, we played Indy...and at there house...


dont we all expect these types of refs by now?

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jcdavey

it's amazing how bad indy is this year, gaffney catches that pass and it's game over

indy should be 1-7 right now but teams keep letting them have wins like this

while other teams beat the living hell out of them like the bears and packers did, and to a lesser extent the titans

drew4008

You homers are out of your minds. That was the most blatant penalty ever. Thomas made a huge f'ing mistake. Let's get over it.

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NEGoldenAge

Usually when I see a flag, I try to figure out what the penatly is while the Refs chat about it. Judging by the timing and location of the flag, I thought it either had to be a face mask, or holding just outside of the camera view. I was stunned when they announced the call.

Don't listen to the dingbats that call you homers or blame it on Thomas, that was a bogus call. Not one half a second had passed between the time the whistle was blown and the flag was thrown. Hell, unless that ref has faster hands than a gun-fighter, he must have had his hand on the flag before the play was already over. The whole thing looked Premeditated. If you're going to call a loose game as an official, you can't make a call like that on such a critical drive.

Well, at least it wasn't "face-guarding" in the AFCCG. I wonder if the dingbats think that was good call too.

PatsFanSince74

Sorry. The runner was down and starting to get to his feet when the hit occured. It was a fair call. His only possible excuse to the coaches today would be that he didn't hear the whistle. Another poster above put it well, the refs didn't hand them the game, we did.

This is the kind of whining that I expect on the Indy and Jets boards, and it's just as bad here.

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SeymourTrophies

I don't want to sound whiny, like the only problem was the refs (I would be all over it complaining if we won, like last year), but there were some suspect spots last night. The one that sparks the conspiracy theorist in me is the failed 2-pt conversion. How the ref can make such a quick decision on whether or not Faulk made it when there was a crowd of players blocking his view raised some eyebrows. Not to mention if Faulk didn't make it, it was by centimeters, and the ref spotted it at the one.

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