Aaron Donald roughing on Brady

Still not sure why the ref gave him a warning and not a flag. League said something to them after the call in KC?

Brady gets all the flags for breathing on him according to haters....

sb1 said:

Still not sure why the ref gave him a warning and not a flag.

Brady gets all the flags for breathing on him according to haters....

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I really wish we never got that flag in the Chiefs game. That was truly a bad call in our favor.
Having said that, Donald should’ve been flagged 15 yards. Our friends at Peta are livid over a goat being mishandled that way...and also that massive fur coat from the halftime show.

I agree completely re that flag during the Chiefs game.
We got away with a ton of borderline late hits on Goff. We are lucky two or three of them weren't called. I thought the refs were excellent in the Super Bowl. They let 'em play!

Nah. We'd go ballistic if one of our guys got flagged for that. It's football.

I agree it is out of kilter with this season, but considering we beat Goff up really badly, not going to complain too much.

Consistency is all we ask for, whether that is zero tolerance or letting them play.

Donald was a little excessive there but I'm not going to go too nutzo on him as I think the game has been "wussified" more than it should be.

robertweathers said:

Donald was a little excessive there but I'm not going to go too nutzo on him as I think the game has been "wussified" more than it should be.

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Same here I guess. At the time I was yelling for a flag but later, when I actually heard the ref warn him. I thought that was fine.

That warning stuff goes on a lot more than people realize. You just normally don’t hear it. There is a lot of verbal interaction between players and refs.

bormio said:

That warning stuff goes on a lot more than people realize. You just normally don’t hear it. There is a lot of verbal interaction between players and refs.

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I agree. It's the right thing to do. A good ref does that.

I used to ref mens league basketball games and thats how I operated. If I saw a player early in the game get a little out of hand with the elbows, hand checking, pushing, etc I gave them a warning. If they kept doing it I called a foul.

Good. Less flags the better.

Under normal circumstances, that's a roughing call. The ball had left his hand. They'd call that during the regular season but they swallowed the whistles in this game and let the two teams decide it.

I thought refs did an excellent job in letting both teams play. The warning was sufficient.

I'm happy they didn't call it and how they let the teams play. No wants a flag fest in the Superbowl.

With that said, I find it hilarious that the national narrative of NFL fans and writers is Brady gets preferential treatment, protected by the refs etc.

They complain about calls that go in favor of Brady and the Patriots, but if the roles had been reversed and Flowers did that to Goff, they would have been crying about the non-call.

Interesting, it's almost like they think there should be a separate set of rules for Brady and the Pats compared to the rest of the league.

Any call or non call in favor of Brady or the Patriots has now automatically become a bad call and another example of preferential treatment, regardless of context or ya know, actually being the right call.

A lot of sad, hypocritical, lame ass NFL fans and writers out there.

PittPatriot said:

I really wish we never got that flag in the Chiefs game. That was truly a bad call in our favor.
Having said that, Donald should’ve been flagged 15 yards. Our friends at Peta are livid over a goat being mishandled that way...and also that massive fur coat from the halftime show.

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I would say that yeah, maybe that call was questionable but Gronk and all the Pats receives were mugged in that game. Even on that last Gronk catch, they were all over him.

Superstar treatment

I think a lot of this perception about Brady came from Rodney Harrison’s stupid “skirt” comment.

I thought it was one of the best officiated games of the year. They let them play, but most importantly they enforced the rules consistently.

And IIRC on every single play where a flag was thrown, my friends and I all agreed the penalty was blatant and justified upon replay.

mosi said:

I would say that yeah, maybe that call was questionable but Gronk and all the Pats receives were mugged in that game. Even on that last Gronk catch, they were all over him.

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I imagine Rams fans feel their receivers were mugged all game as well. Just depends on your point of view

I actually like that the ref let them play. Everything is a flag these days. There was a hit on Goff when he was going out of bound, i thought it was gonna be a flag too.

PittPatriot said:

I really wish we never got that flag in the Chiefs game. That was truly a bad call in our favor.
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BelizePats said:

I agree completely re that flag during the Chiefs game.

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Sorry - I consider that a wash because if you look @ that play, the ref's missed not calling a blatant PI on JE - to whom the ball was thrown to! JE had 10+ yards btw.

So, instead of calling that a 'bad call', i would call it a 'compensatory call'.