Worst Refereeing I have ever seen

It is not bad officiating. The hit was ordered from the Top. Do not waste your time jobbing the Patriots early. Wait until it is crucial, in order for the pain to be maximum. Do not stop until the mission is accomplished. Maybe use Jeff Triplett again for an encore for the upcoming Denver game. No that would be too obvious. Maybe Uncle Walter Anderson, and we can claim early dementia again. No, the time span is too short. How about an otherwise competent referee who we have slated soon for a Gold Watch. Get Corrente on the horn.

I'm curious why there isn't more anger at the no-call on the holding of McCourty that helped spring Anderson. Clearly a 'call being made' is something that can be highlighted but that non-call literally led to the Broncos winning. If you watch the video, Davis grabs McCourty's left shoulder pad/jersey about 2-2.5 yards in front of Anderson; McCourty tries to make a play/turn on the ball, he lunges at Anderson right about when they're level with each other but Davis pulls him back, and the arm is still on the left shoulder pad/jersey when Anderson is 2 yards beyond them. It's a blatant, clear-as-day hold. Would McCourty have had a play on Anderson? Eh, 50/50, he'd have impacted his running path at the absolute least if not tackled him. But that's not the point: the point is after the awful OPI on Gronk, the awful DPI on Chung, the awful holding on the Martin catch, this one was the one that ultimately broke the Pats back, the game-winning TD that should've been called back for holding.

5:25 here:

http://www.nfl.com/videos/nfl-game-highlights/0ap3000000591281/Patriots-vs-Broncos-highlights

People were talking about this during the summer and I hoped they were wrong. Sadly, it is worse than I had expected.

cavtroop said:

I used to consume NFL games like crazy - I'd watch every game - thursday night, all 3 games on TV on sunday, and the monday night game. Didn't matter who was playing, I was watching football.

Now? I turn Redzone on, and keep a lazy eye on it. Sometimes. Usually I forget to turn it on. I'll watch every Pats game, but that's it. The NFL is quickly losing my interest, and games like last night are just pushing me more and more away. I have better things to do with my time than watch this trainwreck of officiating, defenders using their bodies as missiles, and obvious bias by the league office.

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Paying for Red Zone is supporting the NFL a lot more than watching every game on TV.

BradyTheGOAT said:

Funny, that was actually the first non blowout Pats game I ever turned off early in my life. I missed everything shortly after the Gronk injury.

Apparently there was another BS call against Chung that was big, so I'm glad.

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Then you missed the blatant well filmed hands to the face the Broncos did on their touchdown in the fourth quarter. Egregious!

KontradictioN said:

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.

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For me, if the Pats are not in it I don't watch the playoffs.

No sour grapes, I just despise the NFL* and I won't support them.

The last two Superbowls the Pats were in were the last two I watched.

Patsfanin Philly said:

Spot on......
I would bet Blandino is sending out " points of emphasis memo" or via conference call telling refs to watch Gronkowski for offensive PI. Translation to refs, " if you want to be graded higher and either ref in post season or keep your job, be sure to make sure you watch/call it on him"...
Like many predicted, the league is doing what they can to screw the Pats.. Would be nice if we had an owner who stood up to the bullying... (note to the Kraft apologists- " you're right we don't know what is going on behind the scenes but it ISN'T WORKING)
Anyone know how many OPI he had before this season???

The last OPI call was as ticky tacky as they come...

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You are correct cannot expect Bob Vichy Kraft to do anything about this. His fantasy football investment and other league investments might suffer. God for bid that he should have anyone on the NFL competition committee

PatsWickedPissah said:

You are correct cannot expect Bob Vichy Kraft to do anything about this. His fantasy football investment and other league investments might suffer. God for bid that he should have anyone on the NFL competition committee

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Gotta love fantasy football.

Sometimes the networks even interrupt the fantasy updates with actual scores from other games.

In addition to Esiason, Ron Jaworski thought the Chung flag was terrible.

The refs definitely need to get low marks for this game in their weekly review

juny said:

In addition to Esiason, Ron Jaworski thought the Chung flag was terrible.

The refs definitely need to get low marks for this game in their weekly review

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There was a time when Jaw's opinion carried considerable weight with me.

juny said:

In addition to Esiason, Ron Jaworski thought the Chung flag was terrible.

The refs definitely need to get low marks for this game in their weekly review

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Unfortunately, you know the league gave them all an A+ for last night's performance.

JarOfMayo51 said:

Like I said in the game chat, just wait until we're @Jets with serious playoff seeding implications on the line.

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What will be even worse for the Patriots in that game is if the jests are still in the wild card race.

If that's the case there will absolutely be some head-scratching calls against the Patriots

Nunchucks said:

Paying for Red Zone is supporting the NFL a lot more than watching every game on TV.

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Its part of my sports package. i get RZ if I watch it or not.

pazrul72 said:

I disagree, yes he clearly fell on it and it was in his bread basket but the pile came before you saw two hands on the ball clear possession. After that it was a scrum that Ebner came up with. It is a funky shaped ball and all kinds of crazy things happen on a weekly basis it COULD have squirted out. 9/10 in that situation it is given to the guy who emerges with it. Hardly the worst call of the game but still one that makes my blood boil

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Patriots Colts a few weeks ago - same thing happened in reverse. I think it was Cam Fleming who fell on the ball post-fumble, but he never really had full possession and the Colts wound up with it in the pile. The refs gave the ball to New England.

We've seen terrible officiating almost every week this year in prime time games. The SF-Arizona game yesterday also featured several blunders, including the officials losing track of what down it was.

It's worth mentioning that a key piece in the league's allegation of ball deflation was based on the officials doing their job correctly before the AFCCG. Is it really believable that Anderson accurately checked 48 footballs and every one of them was exactly where it was supposed to be, even though he didn't write anything down? Or that the PSI check at halftime was done correctly, when this had never been done before and everyone was operating on the fly?

Koma said:

We've seen terrible officiating almost every week this year in prime time games. The SF-Arizona game yesterday also featured several blunders, including the officials losing track of what down it was.

It's worth mentioning that a key piece in the league's allegation of ball deflation was based on the officials doing their job correctly before the AFCCG. Is it really believable that Anderson accurately checked 48 footballs and every one of them was exactly where it was supposed to be, even though he didn't write anything down? Or that the PSI check at halftime was done correctly, when this had never been done before and everyone was operating on the fly?

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The post of the year.

Koma said:

We've seen terrible officiating almost every week this year in prime time games. The SF-Arizona game yesterday also featured several blunders, including the officials losing track of what down it was.

It's worth mentioning that a key piece in the league's allegation of ball deflation was based on the officials doing their job correctly before the AFCCG. Is it really believable that Anderson accurately checked 48 footballs and every one of them was exactly where it was supposed to be, even though he didn't write anything down? Or that the PSI check at halftime was done correctly, when this had never been done before and everyone was operating on the fly?

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Arians was awesome after the game
The NFL's officiating problem, or as Alex Boone describes it: 'Those refs sucked'

And if you think all this complaining is merely sore losers speaking, think again. Winning Cardinals coach Bruce Arians wrapped up his postgame press conference with equally harsh comments for the referees.

"The officials were struggling — mightily. They can't count to three. I got so many explanations I got tired of them, because they were just running out of them. We complete a pass for a first down. I'm not sure the spot was correct, so we hurry up and run the ball. They've got 13 guys on the field, we accept a penalty and that's first-and-5. The gave us five yards after the play, which was wrong, and made it second-and-3. That's not what we accepted, and that was the whole problem. So, I mean, it was a FUBAR on their part. They can try to explain it. They're wrong."

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I agree last night was just awful for all referee's. I found this good, funny rant article this morning about the refs last night. I'll put it below if anyone wants to read .

Patriots 24 Refs 30

juny said:

In addition to Esiason, Ron Jaworski thought the Chung flag was terrible.

The refs definitely need to get low marks for this game in their weekly review

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The thing that gets me and must clearly frustrate the players is you get into a "rhythm" of what they are calling or not calling. For instance, three quarters go by and as a player you are thinking, "Ok, hand checking and underthrow/PI are not being called on both sides" OK, I just don't go overboard, I'm okay, no harm, no foul." Then in a critical situation you get the Chung PI call. That's what sends me overboard.

The Tre Jackson penalty was very disappointing and a huge decision from my point of view. The Patriots made a point of trying to make the long ball knowing that with Amendola/Edelman/Lewis missing, the precision passing game against the Broncos vaunted Defense in the treacherous conditions was going to struggle. And the one time they pulled it off and flipped the field, it got called back on a play where Jackson made a fanatastic read and reaction to give Brady enough time to hoof the ball. And it looked like the defender launched high at Brady which could have resulted in a penalty the other way.