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Old 12-03-2007, 11:30 PM   #1
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All season long we have complained about the terrible officiating that the NFL 'kept in store' for our Pats. I thought the Indy game could have been lost just on the bad calls...but we came through. Nobody was bringing this up...maybe Bill Simmons or a hometown guy, but otherwise the National media ignored it.

Now, every ESPN reporter is bringing in the obligatory "late calls that could have gone either way" comment regarding the Patriots victory. If not that, then the timeout on 4th and One when Brady's progress was stopped. Can't we catch a break from the talking heads?!
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Old 12-03-2007, 11:32 PM   #2
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how about on the hail mary and Jaws see Asante getting tackled I think Trieco says " they are not calling that this late" that is freaking reduclous
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Old 12-03-2007, 11:35 PM   #3
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how about on the hail mary and Jaws see Asante getting tackled I think Trieco says " they are not calling that this late" that is freaking reduclous
It was Jaws. Tirico mentioned that Mason tackled Samuel to which Jaws said they shouldn't call that this late in the game. Pretty ridiculous.
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All season long we have complained about the terrible officiating that the NFL 'kept in store' for our Pats. I thought the Indy game could have been lost just on the bad calls...but we came through. Nobody was bringing this up...maybe Bill Simmons or a hometown guy, but otherwise the National media ignored it.

Now, every ESPN reporter is bringing in the obligatory "late calls that could have gone either way" comment regarding the Patriots victory. If not that, then the timeout on 4th and One when Brady's progress was stopped. Can't we catch a break from the talking heads?!
What goes around comes around. This board has been full of whiners all year telling everyone how the Pats got screwed on call by the officials. Everyone is tired of hearing Pats fans cry. So when the situation is reversed and the Pats get some breaks on calls.....people aren't going to let it go because you have been crying so much all year!
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What goes around comes around. This board has been full of whiners all year telling everyone how the Pats got screwed on call by the officials. Everyone is tired of hearing Pats fans cry. So when the situation is reversed and the Pats get some breaks on calls.....people aren't going to let it go because you have been crying so much all year!

Well thats another generalization, but I can see how people feel this way, big time, the backlash.

I don't think the actual team has cried at all and I don't think a big chunk of Pat fans cried.

However I completely feel that way towards the constant crying by that group of fans. Go to the game time thread, lol, they wanted a hold every play, well, there is a hold every play, both ways.

Anyway, no disrespect, but I completely see why they'd get this backlash. Again, I never blame or point to officiating in any game, ever. There are too many things you can control to win, no reason to cry about officiating.
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The NFL officials have been terrible this season and that includes non-Patriot football games, as well.
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I guarantee you that non-OPI call would have been made if that play was a TD.
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how about on the hail mary and Jaws see Asante getting tackled I think Trieco says " they are not calling that this late" that is freaking reduclous
He meant that the game was over, moron.
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The thing is that the officials clearly got the calls right here.

Its not like you could compare the ridiculous Moss offensive PI penalties or the phantom PI penalty against the Colts to anything that happened here. What was the worst call that was made here? The holding on 4th down where the Ravens player clearly is grabbing Watson 10 yards downfield? Or the TD catch that even if it was reversed, the Pats still would have had 1st and goal from the 2.

All this backlash is fueled by the fact that everyone wanted the Pats to lose. thats all.
"Clearly" is always subjective thats the issue, so its never "clearly".

You can point out bad calls and non calls in all games, its that simple to me.

I actually did see someone on the game thread acknowledge the "clear" block in the back on that long LM dump off pass.

There was a big deal on here about a Pats player getting his helmet knocked off in the Colts/Pat game and the first picture I see the next day in the Indy Star is a Colts player with his helmet (or hat as my wife calls it) ripped off. I mean its all subjective. I never ever never blame officiating. Its food for victim type thinking.

I'm just making an observation here that I agree its a backlash for all of the complaining done before.
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I guarantee you that non-OPI call would have been made if that play was a TD.
Really? There weren't any flags on the ground from what I could see.... And for all the official knows there is still a second left on the clock.

Brady had it right: For three quarters the calls and the luck went the Ravens' way. Then it changed. It tends to even out. (Unless you're playing the Colts, of course).
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