What Can The Team Do RE: Officiating - New England Patriots Forums

jays52 · 11-04-2007, 07:42 PM

A question to those of you who have better league knowledge than I. It's a fairly common sentiment that the officiating was atrocious and biased. Is there anything that the patriots can do to bring this to attention within the league. As much as I hate to act like this, there must be something we can do to offset the blatant influence Polian and Dungy have over the officials. Anyone have some suggestions or potential courses of action?

MrBigglesWorth · 11-04-2007, 07:51 PM

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Originally Posted by jays52

A question to those of you who have better league knowledge than I. It's a fairly common sentiment that the officiating was atrocious and biased. Is there anything that the patriots can do to bring this to attention within the league. As much as I hate to act like this, there must be something we can do to offset the blatant influence Polian and Dungy have over the officials. Anyone have some suggestions or potential courses of action?

All pats fans wear ref jersey's to games?

don't think there is much you can do

FloridaPatsFan · 11-04-2007, 07:55 PM

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Originally Posted by jays52

A question to those of you who have better league knowledge than I. It's a fairly common sentiment that the officiating was atrocious and biased. Is there anything that the patriots can do to bring this to attention within the league. As much as I hate to act like this, there must be something we can do to offset the blatant influence Polian and Dungy have over the officials. Anyone have some suggestions or potential courses of action?

My understanding of the situation is that the league will review and grade the job done by the entire crew (as usual) this week. There is on occasion, a league issued apology about certain calls but more than likely, the league will defend the refs calls.

However, the Patriots can and probably will issue a complaint about certain plays, but the point will only to bring the issue to the attention of the league.

Nothing will be done about any call made this week is the eventual ending.

roguepatriot · 11-04-2007, 08:03 PM

It is not a matter of this game; its a matter of some other team not getting robbed in the future by a similar NFL embarrassment. Could a petition or something similar from around the country/world make any difference? Or do you have to be part of the competition committee to make any difference on something like this?

SVN · 11-04-2007, 08:17 PM

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Originally Posted by FloridaPatsFan

My understanding of the situation is that the league will review and grade the job done by the entire crew (as usual) this week. There is on occasion, a league issued apology about certain calls but more than likely, the league will defend the refs calls.

However, the Patriots can and probably will issue a complaint about certain plays, but the point will only to bring the issue to the attention of the league.

Nothing will be done about any call made this week is the eventual ending.

pats wont do any complaint to the league . BB said last yr he hasnt sent anything to the league in many many yrs. on the other hand, if it was the colts ,polian would be screaming at the nfl offices.

NEPat · 11-04-2007, 08:22 PM

Do what Polian does, whine your head off to the league. Send them tapes, make them aware of certain things the Colts do to gain an edge (you know, for example, that they made the refs aware that Moss liked to push off) so that the officials become extra wary and call those phantom calls.

RPMCanes · 11-04-2007, 08:26 PM

The problem is that we don't want to turn into a whiney little beeotch like Polian.

jays52 · 11-04-2007, 08:28 PM

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Do what Polian does, whine your head off to the league. Send them tapes, make them aware of certain things the Colts do to gain an edge (you know, for example, that they made the refs aware that Moss liked to push off) so that the officials become extra wary and call those phantom calls.

I know...it's such a f*ggoty way to win games, and such a ***** thing to do. It's just that Polian and Dungy have become so out of controll in their influence of officials that something must be done. To me, this is not an issue of Colts/Pats, this is an issue of the integrity of the game versus title 9'ing your way to a W. I have five nephews who are currently in pop warner, and as lame as it is to say this, I hope they realize that this is not the way football is meant to be played. It transcends Colts/Pats and goes into the preservation of the integrity of the game.

5 Rings for Brady!! · 11-04-2007, 08:29 PM

For us fans, I think that emailing the nfl and nfl network this week would be an appropriate start.

I think we all should let the nfl know that we are pretty damn sick and tired of this constant one sided officiating that has gone on now for years.

***QuiGon*** · 11-04-2007, 08:30 PM

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Originally Posted by jays52

A question to those of you who have better league knowledge than I. It's a fairly common sentiment that the officiating was atrocious and biased. Is there anything that the patriots can do to bring this to attention within the league. As much as I hate to act like this, there must be something we can do to offset the blatant influence Polian and Dungy have over the officials. Anyone have some suggestions or potential courses of action?

I said it before and I'll say it again: The Patriots should complain/whine publicly about this. Complaining won't change the past but it does influence the future. Polian spends all his time whining and it works for him because he gets 100% of the calls 100% of the time, not to mention a rule change/emphasis.