Ben Watson's tweet to the commish

FreeTedWilliams said:

Baseball had something similar in the World Series



It was an obvious wrong call, that cost the Cardinals game 6, which would have given them the WS. Instead the Royals came back won game 6 (by the guy that Denkinger called safe scoring the tying run) and then game 7. Now baseball get these calls right. Of course baseball calls are much more black and white than football calls.

You can't legislate judgment calls, but I think the CFL has a decent rule that you can challenge a PI call, and if it is obvious, they call PI (or overturn the PI call). Any rule change would have to be for PI and PI only, as there is holding on every play. Same amount of challenges, just allow for PI to be challenged.

But Watson is right, that rat bastard Goodell needs to speak about this, even if he came out and said, refs are imperfect and they missed the call, we will try and do better and maybe sugguest that the competition committee look into a way to address egregious errors such as this one. But his silence basically fuels the conspiracy theories.

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FreeTedWilliams said:

Baseball had something similar in the World Series



It was an obvious wrong call, that cost the Cardinals game 6, which would have given them the WS. Instead the Royals came back won game 6 (by the guy that Denkinger called safe scoring the tying run) and then game 7. Now baseball get these calls right. Of course baseball calls are much more black and white than football calls.

You can't legislate judgment calls, but I think the CFL has a decent rule that you can challenge a PI call, and if it is obvious, they call PI (or overturn the PI call). Any rule change would have to be for PI and PI only, as there is holding on every play. Same amount of challenges, just allow for PI to be challenged.

But Watson is right, that rat bastard Goodell needs to speak about this, even if he came out and said, refs are imperfect and they missed the call, we will try and do better and maybe sugguest that the competition committee look into a way to address egregious errors such as this one. But his silence basically fuels the conspiracy theories.

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reamer said:

I'm a huge fan of Watson, both on and off the field, but I think he's letting his emotions get the better of him on this one. The Saints still had numerous chances, on offense and defense, to stop the Rams, but they failed to overcome the (admittedly horrendous) no call call.

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QuantumMechanic said:

The conspiracy accusations are ridiculous.

Assuming arguendo that the game was rigged for LA, the last thing someone arranging the rigging or carrying out the rigging on the field wants is do to it by some obvious, unsubtle thing. You do it by subtle things all along the way.

And they didn't even do a great job rigging it. Yes, that call stopped NO from winning the game right there, but it didn't do any sort of useful job in guaranteeing that LA would advance.

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maust1013 said:

I don't think I've ever bought into a conspiracy theory in my life but that non call stinks to high heaven. It isn't far fetched the league wanted that particular LA team to win, gotta sell those high end P$Ls. Since the Chargers don't get anything out of it they are practically giving there's away and Rams sales have been slow. Kroenkes over priced palace is not just going to be the home of two teams but it is also going to be the new home of the NFLN. Yeah, no conflict of interest there...

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SamusAranX said:

Yeah, but do you really think they’d be dumb enough to get orders to fix a game in writing (email from Goodell to ref(s): “Fix the game plz kbye) ? And multiple people would know about the said conspiracy. Someone would talk at some point

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Vindicate said:

A game should never come down to a single call.

That ignores the entire narrative that lead you to depending on a ref. Which is terrible strategy.

So many times after a Pats loss, I want to chalk it up to a bad call (2015 AFCCG, holding in SB, etc.,) But you should never be depending on the refs for a win. Period. Ice up, son.

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1960Pats said:

The best advice I ever received while playing sports was to look at the umpire as a scoreboard. Look at it and see what the call was but then get back to the task at hand. It served me well as a youngster.

I then taught the same thing to kids that I coached later on in my life and tried to teach it to the parents. I even took it a step further by having my players take notice when opponents reacted poorly to a decision, and how it pumped them up to see the other team losing it. That also served me well as a coach.

I think that Payton's reaction to that call may have contributed to his team's poor play afterward and it could have only helped the state of mind of the Rams to see the opposing coach going ballistic on the other sideline.

Having said all that doesn't change the fact that that was the worst non-call to influence a game that I've ever seen. Ben Watson is well within his rights to complain about it afterward.

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SammyBlueCat said:

Ben is a great guy however he is wrong this time.
Silence on this topic is the only solution at this time.

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SammyBlueCat said:

Ben is a great guy however he is wrong this time.
Silence on this topic is the only solution at this time.

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Spiral said:

It really wasn't one PI non-call--it was two. On the OT interception, the receiver was tackled before the ball arrived. This would be OK if the ball was tipped, but replays showed that it clearly wasn't. I have no idea why no one (other than Lombardi) is paying attention to this.

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Spiral said:

Best thing the Patriots can do is say they feel bad for the Saints. Keep saying it. Make the Rams feel that karma isn't on their side.

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SammyBlueCat said:

So @captain stone what do you really expect for him to do? Fall on his sword?
That is not going to happen.

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