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I've moved on past this game and accepted this loss, but I cant help but share it. Its a great article that breaks down all of the penalties in the game and the results may surprise you.

Breaking Down the Officiating in New England Patriots Loss to Baltimore Ravens | Bleacher Report

Discuss thoughts below.

Sicilian

And this doesn't even cover the non-calls like Lewis tackling Gronk or holding on Chandler Jones. The only one from this article I debate is the false start on Yanda. Normally yes, the reaction to the offsides would be called encroachment, but Wilfork had been back onsides for like 2 seconds before Yanda moved. Even if the letter of the law says encroachment, don't reward that dink for his games :P

gmtaxi27

Thanks for that.

I think one of the biggest calls, was the pass interference on Mayo in the 2nd. That seemed to give the Ravens life, and got them back in the game. If we stop them there we get the ball back in good field position with a good chance to go up 16 or 20 zip. Huge call.

Palm Beach Pats Fan

awesome read!

analysis of 24 calls:

12 valid (10 on Ravens, 2 on Pats)
5 inconclusive (2 on Ravens, 3 on Pats)
7 WRONG (2 on Ravens, 5 on Pats)

so 5 of 10 calls against us were clearly bogus and (4 of them possibly affected the scoreboard since they were on a scoring drive)
vs.
2 of 14 calls vs. them being clearly bogus (neither affected scoring)

I certainly disagree that the call on Harbaugh was bogus though.

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sly24

The biggest call. The Ravens hadn't even got a first down in the game at that point. That's what got them going.

Great article! Really well done.

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Crononaut

Thanks for this. That game left a weird taste in my mouth, I felt like we had gotten the raw end of the deal, but because I'd also seen a couple of rough calls for the Ravens just figured it was my bias towards the Pats. This shows the calls were onesided (the Ravens getting penalized for legitimate penalties is called the refs doing their job), and as said doesn't even include the non calls of Edelpunch, Edelhelmet in the endzone, about 75 Chandler Jones holdings (Chris Collingsworth actually praised Michael Oher once while he blatantly horse-collaring #95), and the indecisive field goal.

While at the time I wanted Bill to go out there and call for the refs' heads, I'm glad they've taken what was a very similar incident to Monday night's game in much better stride than the Packers. The Packers have a right to be pissed and I don't blame Aaron Rodgers for speaking his mind, but did anyone else notice the most vocal and outspoken idividuals were the OL (aka the part of the team that had nothing to do with the play and had a horrible night without the refs getting involved)?

mrscruff

Initially i also thought the Harbaugh call was harsh. During the following intermission, the C4 (in the UK) analyst Mike Carlson commented that he thought the call was well merited.
At first Harbaugh was telling the ref that he "... wanted to talk to him..." and afterwards mouthed that he wants to call a timeout. Carlson was of the opinion that if Harbaugh wanted to call timeout then all he had to do was gesture with his hands and call timeout. His initial intention, he argued, was to berate the ref for the previous on-field decision by the refs.

The call doesn't matter now but just goes to show how different people can interpret the same event in conflicting ways.

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MrNathanDrake

i wouldn't be surprised if one of the refs were paid off.

It was THAT bad.

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Bring on the 2012 Season

ThatllMoveTheChains!!!

That was the 3rd of 3 consecutive penalties that likely kept points off the board for the Pats and put points on the board for the Ravens. Without those calls it's very likely the Pats are up 17-0, with the ball in good field position, and having dominated the TOP. You can say what you want about overcoming the calls, but it's quite likely that game was going to be heading towards a blowout halfway through the 2nd quarter if it was officiated competently.

cmasspatsfan

Absolutely, it shifted the momentum big time, who knows how big of lead we have if its called right, Im not even going to get into the non calls but those affected the game too.