sambam94
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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.I really hope you aren't holding your breath, because you are going to wait a LOOOOONG time before that happens.Can't wait for the apology from the league.....................................................
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?
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?
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?
Has the clock resumption been explained?
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.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.
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.
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?
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.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.
A lot.Simplify the rules