Yahoo:The NFL's officiating problem

sambam94 · Nov 30, 2015

can't wait until this team gets everyone back..this lose when all is said and done will be a good thing. I'm so glad the undefeated crap talk is over now...this team will be possessed come play off time

moejr · Nov 30, 2015

When even Stephen A agrees with Skip Bayless you know it was bad.

PatsFanSince74 · Nov 30, 2015

Can't wait for the apology from the league.....................................................

patfanken · Nov 30, 2015

PatsFanSince74 said:
Can't wait for the apology from the league.....................................................

I really hope you aren't holding your breath, because you are going to wait a LOOOOONG time before that happens.

primetime · Nov 30, 2015

I just don't know how it gets better. Have a team of people watching up in the booth as well as down on the field?

moejr · Nov 30, 2015

primetime said:
I just don't know how it gets better. Have a team of people watching up in the booth as well as down on the field?

Simplify the rules

gmtaxi27 · Nov 30, 2015

Like Brady, I can't remember being more pissed after a loss. I can deal with a bad call. Heck it happens every week, but this game actually had me thinking it was a deliberate attempt by the refs to give the Broncos the game. We have been screwed by calls many times (ie Ravens and Carolina games from a few years ago), but I never felt the bad calls were deliberate, but after last night I honest you felt it was.

FCB02062 · Nov 30, 2015

Wonder if Dean Blandino will have any comment on last night's officials. You know, after he gets off Dallas's party bus of course....

VrabelJr · Nov 30, 2015

If we see Denver in January all of the Refing in the world isn't going to be enough for the amount of points and pain we're going to put on them.

The Gr8est · Nov 30, 2015

primetime said:
I just don't know how it gets better. Have a team of people watching up in the booth as well as down on the field?

Change the Pats colors to green and get some retired fireman to lead a chant "P....A....T....S......Pats....Pats....Pats!!!"

Might be enough to fool the dimwits in the NFL* offices long enough to win another Superbowl.

QuantumMechanic · Nov 30, 2015

ivanvamp said:
I'm really curious about the clock issue at the end of regulation (which ended up not mattering, but still). So the defense has the lead, but is out of timeouts. The other team is driving. You decide to have players fake injuries. They can't charge you time outs, because you have none left. "Excess time outs"? WTF is that?

There's no 10 second runoff, because that penalizes the team trying to drive to score to tie/win the game. There doesn't appear to be any consequence in this case for the defense to fake injuries (or have real ones, for that matter). Is there a penalty that will be assessed? If not, why wasn't it assessed against Denver? What's to stop teams from simply faking injuries in this situation to slow the other team's momentum down?

A team gets one freebie "excess timeout". After they they get hit with 5 yard penalties and (if it's the offense) a 10-sec runoff. So a team may well fake, but they can only fake once before being penalized.

patfanken · Nov 30, 2015

I think the worst part about this was it was different from all the other official mistakes. Those have all been single plays where the refs made a mistake. Well mistakes happen, and we really should be able to deal with it.

THIS however was a continual onslaught of call after call of penalties on the Pats and blatant non-calls for Denver in a short period of time that drastically effected the outcome of the game. It was so clear that even toxic blindly obedient media has taken notice.

Hopefully it will put the league on notice that people will be watching for more of this in the future. At worst it will force them to be more subtle in their manipulation of games. BTW- the Cardinal game was just as bad, except it wasn't as important since the Niners have nothing to look forward to, but the Draft.

This might be the right time to start demanding exactly why the Pats are losing their #1 draft pick in 2016. As well as asking him how the PSI tests went in Denver, and around the rest of the league?

Patsrock · Nov 30, 2015

borg said:
Has the clock resumption been explained?

Correct call but badly communicated by the ref in game. He should have said please reset play clock to 40 and by rule the game clock will start on ready to play. He didn't and that is the confusion. Another screw up by the ref.

Big-T · Nov 30, 2015

The giveaway that the fix was in happened early - when they threw the flag for Fleming not reporting.

Seriously, a team like the Patriots would skip that key part of the process? Good job one of the zebras wasn't quite in on the plan at that point.

patfanken · Nov 30, 2015

QuantumMechanic said:
A team gets one freebie "excess timeout". After they they get hit with 5 yard penalties and (if it's the offens.e) a 10-sec runoff. So a team may well fake, but they can only fake once before being penalized.

I think the real problem was that even though the refs called a TO, for some strange reason the clock start running as soon as the ball was set.
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This is such an obscure part of the rule that even BB was confused. So the ref looked Brady in the eye, told him there was a TO,and THEN let the clock run, I guess they forgot to mention that THIS kind of TO, doesn't come with a clock stoppage.

primetime · Nov 30, 2015

Big-T said:
The giveaway that the fix was in happened early - when they threw the flag for Fleming not reporting.

Seriously, a team like the Patriots would skip that key part of the process? Good job one of the zebras wasn't quite in on the plan at that point.

This seems like needless conspiracy theory. The head official missed it, but his colleague(s) did not and the flag was picked up. The "rub your chest to show you're eligible" thing is objectively pretty weird, anyways.

The Brandon Five · Nov 30, 2015

patfanken said:
I think the worst part about this was it was different from all the other official mistakes. Those have all been single plays where the refs made a mistake. Well mistakes happen, and we really should be able to deal with it.

THIS however was a continual onslaught of call after call of penalties on the Pats and blatant non-calls for Denver in a short period of time that drastically effected the outcome of the game. It was so clear that even toxic blindly obedient media has taken notice.

Hopefully it will put the league on notice that people will be watching for more of this in the future. At worst it will force them to be more subtle in their manipulation of games. BTW- the Cardinal game was just as bad, except it wasn't as important since the Niners have nothing to look forward to, but the Draft.

This might be the right time to start demanding exactly why the Pats are losing their #1 draft pick in 2016. As well as asking him how the PSI tests went in Denver, and around the rest of the league?

I am sure all the big money involved in DFS and sports books will remain insouciant about the league massively swinging the competitiveness of games with B.S. like we have been seeing. What could go wrong?

Jlaff · Nov 30, 2015

Big-T said:
The giveaway that the fix was in happened early - when they threw the flag for Fleming not reporting.

Seriously, a team like the Patriots would skip that key part of the process? Good job one of the zebras wasn't quite in on the plan at that point.

Yeah, the increased scrutiny on the Patriots was evident at that point. Like they are going to screw that up, the Pats are the team that knew the rulebook so well the NFL had to change it.

VrabelJr · Nov 30, 2015

primetime said:
This seems like needless conspiracy theory. The head official missed it, but his colleague(s) did not and the flag was picked up. The "rub your chest to show you're eligible" thing is objectively pretty weird, anyways.

Who doesn't love to see massive OL rub their bellies like a bear about to assault a beehive?

rochrist · Nov 30, 2015

moejr said:
Simplify the rules

A lot.

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