Originally Posted by BelichickFan (Post 626862)

Hopefully Goodall will tell Polian to get the ***** away and leave him alone. If one thing is obvious by now it's that Goodall isn't gonna take any *****; the fact that he had Feirera talk to him about the bull***** officiating we got in the Colt game shows me that he's not Polian's puppet. I'm as pissed as anyone about the way Goodall handled Spygate but I am confident that comments like "We’ll discuss that with the league office at the appropriate time" aren't going to get Polian very far.

Originally Posted by Rob0729 (Post 626848)

From his Q&A on the Colts' site:



http://colts.com/sub.cfm?page=articl...3-3aef537264a3

Ok, so just because the replay official was the only one who saw that the Colts clearly got a generous spot, Polian will need to talk to the league about it at the appropriate time. What exactly is he going to talk to them about? That it is an unwritten league rule that the refs must give the Colts generous spots like the one in the Pats game where a Joseph Addai rush was about a yard behind the marker before the commercial and then marked just over the first down marker when they come back from a commerical break?

The replay clearly showed as both Madden and Michaels pointed out that Addai did not get to the first down marker in the Chargers game. He needed to get to the six. Originally, the refs spotted him at the 5 yards and about 10 inches mark where he clearly landed about the 6 1/2 yard line. Where exactly is the beef here?

Funny, Polian praises the refs when all the questionable calls went his way in the Pats/Colts game. Now neither he nor Dungy can stop complaining either to the press or the league about the calls when all the bad calls went against them in the Chargers game. By the way, the only bad call I really saw in the Chargers was the whistle on the interception. I actually thought the false start call was correct because Utect clearly was trying to similate a snap and not just go in motion.

Originally Posted by xmarkd400x (Post 626869)

Polian's claim is pretty much "I wanted the spot to be a first down, but it wasn't. I will complain about this."

I doubt it is stupidity. It might just be harassment of the league to goad them into making favorable calls for Indy later on. It seems to be a big part of his job.