Anyone else worried about THE REFS on Sunday?

Forget the Seahawks. Seems to me that The commish' worst nightmare would be handing over the Lombardi to Kraft and Bill on Sunday night.

If it's close down to the end I can't imagine Seattle NOT getting a few very beneficial calls.

The more I think on it... The more I feel like our only shot is to come out and smoke them. Take it out of the Zebras hands.

Really? This hasn't crossed ANYONES minds?

As I posted elsewhere in the forum, it won't matter if we blow them out of the building.

Leave.No.Doubt.

Coach Yoast: All right, now, I don't want them to gain *another yard!* * You blitz... all... night!* If they cross the line of scrimmage, I'm gonna take every last one of you out! You make sure they remember, *forever*, the night they played the Titans!
[defense cheers]
Coach Yoast: Leave no doubt!

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I've said it before if y can find thread. It doesn' take much. Theree will be several calls that COULD be called PI's o both teams. Just take 4 of them. Don't call 2 against the Seahawks and call 2 against the Pats. Thats 2 faled drives that tnrn into points for the Seahawks and 2 failed drives for the Pats. Now do the same thing on 2 offensive holding calls. Make 2 calls against the Pats and 2 non-calls against the Seawhawks. No one will complain, as long as a couple of real calls get thrown in against Seattle. Now add a badly timed hands to the face call that you don't call on the other side, and in 10 plays and only 5 actual flags, you can completely turn a game around.

The Baltimore game couldn't have been more one sided if you considered the timing or damage of the respective calls, yet in actul number of penalties and yards it was quite even. The timely (or untimely) non-call can be just a damaging as an actual flag.

If the give free reign on Gronk, it will hurt US a lot more than if they also give us a free reign on Baldwin we don't need.

See. Goodell can be ver subtle and still get the job done.

And that's what scares me.

What adds to it, is if the refs get the feeling that NE is trying to put deflagrate back on them in anyway (I know this hasn't been the case publicly, but we don't know what's going on behind the scenes).

I get the concern but given the situation the worst case for the NFL would seem to be an illegitimately reffed Super Bowl. My gut feeling is the refs will have no choice to be extra fair just to make it clear that the game wasn't, in essence, fixed.

I'm no more worried about the zebras here than I would be any other game. I'm sure there will be a handful of questionable calls both ways but I doubt any of them will have an effect on the final tally. In fact I'd be more inclined to say they might let 'em play a little.

Brady to ref, "are these balls fully inflated? I'd bet it would hurt more to have these footballs thrown at your nuts than deflated ones?"