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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.Remember - Blandino or his designee grades the refs. All it takes is to not downgrade them for a bad close call made against NE and downgrade them for a legit close call made for NE and they'll get the message.
Plus the league can do stuff like always use video of Gronk when giving the refs pointers on calling OPI. Even if the vid shows legit OPI on Gronk the underlying goal of subconscious conditioning is carried out.
He's usually not a liability out there and he has potential to become very good. He's very tall, has a cannon of and arm and will stand in the pocket and he's tough. IMO, he gives the Broncos a better chance at winning than Manning does.It pisses me off that people think Osweiler is good when he got handed chance after chance with the crappy calls
This wasn't just a couple of bad calls where you feel like you got screwed. There were several aggregious game changing errors by the refs. I hate complaining about the refs, but damn.
The pass interference on Gronk. Clean play. Game changing penalty.
The negated 50 yard pass completion called back. 60 yard swing. That was not a hold by Jackson. It was clean.
The defensive pass interference on Chung. If anything it should have been offensive PI. Chung played it cleanly. It should have been 3rd and long from the 14.
The hands to the face on the Denver TD pass, not called.
How about Brady getting tackled by his head? Blatant penalty.
Not a game changer, but how do you miss an obvious running into the kicker?
The Broncos O line was constantly holding. I don't blame them since the refs weren't calling it.
This wasn't just bad officiating, it was cheating on national televsion. The Patriots are too classy of an organization to make a fuss about this, but I sure hope the media turns this into an issue. The NFL needs to be called out and be held accountable. This can't happen again.
In the interest of fairness I totally thought that was colts ball and the pats got away with oneI didn't have a problem with that call. In the game against the Colts, the Patriots were the beneficiary of the same kind of call. When the Colts attempted an onside kick, the refs ruled the Patriots recovered even though a Colts player came away with the ball.
That's also why that Woods recovery in SB42 still ticks me off. He was down and had possession of the ball. When Bradshaw dove on him, the play should have been over.
I think you are exactly right. These are the same tactics that Tim Donaghy described the NBA using. He talked about how the league made the refs watch hours of defensive tactics used by Raja Bell that should be called as fouls. The refs were then conditioned to call fouls on him. Meanwhile, he had a rivalry with Kobe who obviously was someone the league actively promoted.
Donaghy also talked about the NBA's rating system and that the refs knew which teams and players to officiate favorably to help their own careers. As someone who used to watch a lot of NBA, I believe him. I thought the officiating bias was obvious and now rarely watch an NBA game.
I think similar things are going on here and it became obvious last night. It's no secret the league has a vendetta against the Pats.
The NFL will never allow that because they use it as a tool to influence the outcome of games.This process should be completely transparent.
Not disclosing these grades is a threat to the integrity of football.
The fans should know which calls were wrong, right, which grades were given to which refs, and any explanations given. There is an actual precedent for this happen in another major US sport.
We should start a petition to have this info publicly released. There is no good reason why it should not!
In fairness to the poster, the ex-head of refs tweeted that all refs go by one rule. Unless you absolutely know the ball has been recovered by one guy, you hold your whistle and give it to the guy who emerges with the ball.
According to him, it was a bad call because he never saw the Bronco recover it unattached.
I gotta say on the fumble with Ebner coming away with it, can't really complain about that one after Pats got the same benefit against the Colts
I think you are exactly right. These are the same tactics that Tim Donaghy described the NBA using. He talked about how the league made the refs watch hours of defensive tactics used by Raja Bell that should be called as fouls. The refs were then conditioned to call fouls on him. Meanwhile, he had a rivalry with Kobe who obviously was someone the league actively promoted.
Donaghy also talked about the NBA's rating system and that the refs knew which teams and players to officiate favorably to help their own careers. As someone who used to watch a lot of NBA, I believe him. I thought the officiating bias was obvious and now rarely watch an NBA game.
I think similar things are going on here and it became obvious last night. It's no secret the league has a vendetta against the Pats.
I heard that too. What do you bet he will be the ref in the divisional round at Foxboro?Zolak said some Pats players told him that when they tried to talk to Corrente he was basically catatonic because of the cold in the 2nd half.
Yep. It took me a while to stop watching the NBA altogether during the regular season. Now I only casually tune in here and there during the postseason. The same is beginning to happen to me with the NFL. If you had told me a few years ago that I would turn off any Pats game because I didn't care anymore, I would have called you insane.
I heard that too. What do you bet he will be the ref in the divisional round at Foxboro?
Spot on......So you think the offensive pass interference scrutiny the Pats are getting is the same league-wide?
We're going to have to disagree on that.