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CLICK HERE to Register for a free account and login for a smoother ad-free experience. It's easy, and only takes a few moments.your supposed to have complete possession of the ball all the way to the ground and it got stipped before he was down, therefore an incomplete pass...everybody is so convinced the refs are helping the Colts that every single time there is a call like that, everybody goes nuts
Every team has bad calls against them, and usually the fans are quite outspoken on message boards immediately after the game. Some of the calls are 50/50 but every so often a really bad call gets a lot of attention. I just wonder how many times the Colts boards have fans complaining about bad calls against the ponies.....let me guess that the number is small or non-existent. The absence or low number of bad calls yet again suggests that the Colts are beating the odds....
I am still waiting to witness a bad call against the Colts, having seen many over the years with at least a few for almost every other team.
Cant wait for Polian to resign - then Karma can collect its due.
your supposed to have complete possession of the ball all the way to the ground and it got stipped before he was down, therefore an incomplete pass
The Chargers game had alot of bad calls against the Colts including a quick whistle that cost us a touchdown or at least a FG...I didn't complain about it because we played so bad in that game we didn't deserve to win anyway..
Key difference is that turnovers are your own fault, bad calls aren't.IMO, bad calls are often like turnovers. And you have to overcome turnovers and will anyway. That's not to say I don't care about bad calls. But there isn't much you can do about them after they happened.
The Chargers game had alot of bad calls against the Colts including a quick whistle that cost us a touchdown or at least a FG...I didn't complain about it because we played so bad in that game we didn't deserve to win anyway..
I'm a witness to this guilt, the officials literally robbing a game ending int in the playoffs from my boy troy polamalu.It helps me understand that what I see on the field (the Colts getting away with murder) can be backed up by stats.
You believe what you want.
They didn't call that a complete pass did they?
do you have a link to the video from this, thats kind of hard to tell because he could have dragged his foot and been in bounds..
The whistle was an unfortunate incident, not a bad call. It didnt cost the Colts a TD or FG as the whistle also stopped the chargers from pursuing. As it so happened the right call was made, ie it was an interception.
Yes there were calls in that game that were 50/50 (which homers are always going to say were bad), but there were none that were clearly bad enough for other team's fans to agree with Colts fans that they were robbed.
The Polomalu interception in the AFCC game two years ago is an example where everyone including fans of most NFL teams (even some Colts fans) agreed the call was really bad.
I am not sure it is favoritism, but calls favoring the Colts happen with enough regularity to annoy a large number of fans from many different teams.
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What are you talking about? Since this guy has no weight on his right foot, unless he can levitate, there's no way that left foot "drags", as you so glibly put it.
More infantile logic from the Indy Colt Twilight Zone...
The Colts are GUILTY!
of being more disciplined.
Don Shula served on the rules committee and his teams were always among the least penalized in the NFL.
Check out what Wikipedia says about this...
Quote:Shula's teams were consistently among the least penalized in the NFL, and Shula served on the Rules Committee, to help change the game to a more pass oriented modern league.
Sound like someone else we know?
Don Shula served on the rules committee and his teams were always among the least penalized in the NFL.
Check out what Wikipedia says about this...
Sound like someone else we know?
First every coach,or GM meets with the officiating crew prior to the game. In the Colts case its Polian who meets with the officiating crew. Im sure other gm's do also but I doubt any of them carries the wait of Polian.I know what my eyes tell me. But I still had to check it out for myself.
Every Monday morning when I read the paper, it seems like the box scores show the Colts getting called for far fewer penalties than thier opponent.
What I do know about the Colts is that they are a fast defensive/offensive team, but they are well-documented as to having given up size for speed.
Common sense tells me that speed is helpful in skill positions but in the trenches, there is no substituting strength and brute force. Yet somehow, the Colts manage to be rarely called for holding. But as we have all witnessed, the Colts game plan every game is to hold as much as possible. It is truly shocking what they can get away with.
So, I dug up the last 10 games the Patriots played this year and what the penalties were and the last 10 games the Colts played and thier penalties.
Here is what I found:
Patriot Penalties 54 for 516 yards
Patriot Opponents 60 for 466 yards
Colt Penalties 36 for 235 yards
Colt Opponents 57 for 505 yards
This is a massive difference. It speaks for itself. I have not had the time to look into what the each NFL team has been penalized to this point but this is clearly favoratism. I would be willing to bet that a statatician would say that things balance out over the course of a season but this can only be explained as an anomoly. Or, statistical proof that the Colts are being helped by the refs.
To have only HALF as many penalty yards shows that refs are hesitant to call penalties on the Colts unless it's totally blatant.