Refs apparently missed 8 Eagles false starts vs. Patriots

Too bad for the refs. If they had missed just one more they would have won a set of steak knives....

Not a good enough reason for losing

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Has anyone even bothered to see if the Patriots Defence was offside a lot too.

borg said:

The T starts his backpedal on the verbal command, not the snap. The D linemen should have been simulating the command because that was his trigger

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Which would be a 15yd penalty if caught. Not really what you want..

As bad as the refs missing it is, what were the Patriots DL doing not reacting and forcing them to throw the flag?!

That's poor situational Football. They don't react to the movement and just wait for the snap.

Big-T said:

As bad as the refs missing it is, what were the Patriots DL doing not reacting and forcing them to throw the flag?!

That's poor situational Football. They don't react to the movement and just wait for the snap.

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Well, this isn't one of those false starts that happens way before the QB intends to snap the ball. That's when defensive players typically react to a moving o-lineman/TE to force a flag.

Instead, all of these false starts are happening [literally] less than 1 second before the snap - which is still very much a penalty. So there's not really any time to react.

JMC00 said:

I see you and a few others making this statement on here. Yet no one is saying this is why the Eagles won. There were 9 false starts by the Eagles and the refs called 1, not 5 or 6 but 1. This is from the same crew that got demoted from the SNF because they were ****ing terrible the week before. If you miss 8 false starts you prove how much of an incompetent crew you are or you've been given a directive that the Eagles OL false starts but let it go.

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No player or coach has ever had a mistake free game so why would you expect only the officials to live up to a standard of an error less game.The difference is all player/coach errors are known behind closed doors and are not as easy to see as refs. Officials could virtually call penalties on every play if they were super strict about everything do you really want to watch such a game .

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Not a good enough reason for losing

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Question for you. Did you actually read the through the whole thread or did you just see the thread title, click it and then post this?

Because no one is saying this was the reason why they ****ing lost.....

kudzif said:

No player or coach has ever had a mistake free game so why would you expect only the officials to live up to a standard of an error less game.The difference is all player/coach errors are known behind closed doors and are not as easy to see as refs. Officials could virtually call penalties on every play if they were super strict about everything do you really want to watch such a game .

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Where did I say I wanted them to throw a flag on every one? I said 1 out of 9 false starts is absolutely unacceptable. Any competent crew calls at least 5 of the 9

I thought I saw this too, glad I am not going crazy. Usually those are called..oh well.

TommyBrady12 said:

That sarah thomas line judge is a rookie ref. she missed a whole bunch.

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PATSYLICIOUS said:

I'm sure coaches would have noticed, then we should've instructed our tackles to do the same it could've helped take pressure off Brady.

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Sara Thomas miraculously would have seen the Pats false starts if we would have tried such a thing.

The eagles have an unfair advantage that is hurting the integrity of the game... Their uniforms blend in with the field. I feel sorry for eagles fans because Roger will through the metaphorical book at them. The eagles can say goodbye to their first round draft picks for the next decade!

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Yes, the refs missed a bunch of them. But if they'd called them, the Eagles would've stopped doing it. Players adjust to what's being called, it happens in every game. We see it happen all the time with how secondaries play receivers, but you rarely come out of those games saying "they committed 35 uncalled defensive holding penalties!" because I think we mostly understand that it doesn't really work like that.

It was an annoyance at worst, and we benefited from as many calls/no-calls as we were hurt by. Personally, I think complaining about the officiating well into mid-week should be reserved for cases where it actually looks like we might have been thoroughly screwed over (like vs. the Broncos last week). This is not one of those cases.

Still seething over the missed CLEAR, intentional DPI that CAUSED the 100-yard interception.

If DBs can get away with that, the game is a joke.

Whats that call where the Eagles offense looks back to their sideline after set formation? Thats f***king annoying as hell, I hope we dont have to see that again.

I noticed a couple of these during the game. Some of the close ones, whatever, but some of those are egregious.

These FS's are not innocent flinches that don't matter. Peters is getting a huge advantage on the DE by getting that illegal early back step. You're never getting around a guy that big when he gets a step advantage.

Push off by Thurmond on the pick 6 was more important.

JMC00 said:

I see you and a few others making this statement on here. Yet no one is saying this is why the Eagles won. There were 9 false starts by the Eagles and the refs called 1, not 5 or 6 but 1. This is from the same crew that got demoted from the SNF because they were ****ing terrible the week before. If you miss 8 false starts you prove how much of an incompetent crew you are or you've been given a directive that the Eagles OL false starts but let it go.

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Allowing a team that kind of leeway negates any home field advantage we may have.