oh great another Pats SB "tainted" talking point

FoxboroFlyer said:

Hmm...so the rule that has been passed regarding pass interference being reviewable, was prompted by the team that would have supposedly won the SB had it been in place last year?...anyone else see the irony here? The Rams certainly wouldn't have even been in the damn SB! The Saints got robbed.

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Exactly. Oh the irony

Eh, every time the league comes back with revisionist **** like this after the fact, I remember how small of a consolation it was and how nobody gave a **** after the fact when the league admitted the ref blew the Ellis Hobbs faceguarding call in the 2006 AFCCG. They can say whatever they want about what 'should have been' called, it changes nothing and doesn't matter.

Besides, if the refs were consistent and/or competent in calling PI, the Rams wouldn't have won the SB anyway... their season would have simply ended 2 weeks before it did.

Why in gods name would the competition committee bring up the SB play? Are they trolling the patriots?

The offensive PI on the Chiefs play that got the ball down to the Pats 2 late in the AFCCG was brutal, easily as bad as the Saints/Rams no-call. It's the reason Belichick smashed that tablet (those jerkoff sports channels made it look like he was just mad that they gave up the play).

Meh. They get their rule change. Our boys get their ring ceremony.

Don’t they all understand that BB is going to find some way to exploit this change too? This one, and the next one, and the one after that.

ctpatsfan77 said:

It still requires throwing the flag outside of the last two minutes of a half.

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That's my understanding too. So basically every close play in the final two minutes will get a CYA flag and leave it up to the replay people to overturn or not. Awesome.

I didn't see DPI on that play. If that was called as it was and reviewed there would have been no reversal.

Even if you give it to them... 13-10. Pats still win.

ctpatsfan77 said:

It still requires throwing the flag outside of the last two minutes of a half.

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After winning challenges, it often will likely be more than two attempts at it.

That would have been a weak call. Not a blatant missed call.

JMC00 said:

Just a reminder who is on the committee

• Rich McKay (chairman) – president, Atlanta Falcons
• John Mara – owner, New York Giants
• Stephen Jones – owner, Dallas Cowboys
• Mark Murphy – president, Green Bay Packers
• Ozzie Newsome – general manager, Baltimore Ravens
• Mike Tomlin – head coach, Pittsburgh Steelers
• John Elway – general manager, Denver Broncos
• Sean Payton – head coach, New Orleans Saints

Odd not one of them is an actual NFL Referee, so very hilarious that any of them say for sure it would have been called


Also I bet whichever douchebag said it wouldn't admit it would have been PI on this

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I have to say, I don't even remember this play. Was there controversy at the time? I sure don't remember it. I guess I was too busy celebrating!

Waiting for Rams fans to start complaining about the refs in 3...2...1...

Then waiting for Saints fans to start laughing at them in 3...2...1...

h0c2000 said:

Does anyone actually know which play he's mentioning? The mccourty play in the EZ? In the 3rd quarter?

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The play before Gilmore's interception.

PatsDeb said:

I have to say, I don't even remember this play. Was there controversy at the time? I sure don't remember it. I guess I was too busy celebrating!

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Believe it’s the play just before the Gilmore INT.

Thirty yard right sideline lob to Cooks at front of end zone. Gilmore is covering Cooks, though Cooks as a step on him. Cooks appears to be catching the ball and Harmon comes in with a hard hit and knocks it out. On replay we see Gilmore put his right arm into Cooks chest to get position as he turns around...not really a blatant PI, but it caused Cooks arm to be pinned, so he needed to make a near one-armed grab.

Exactly the type of play you should let go because virtually every contested pass will have something like that and it wasn’t an obvious call. In fact, I don’t think anyone thought it was a PI in real-time.

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Uncle Rico said:

That's my understanding too. So basically every close play in the final two minutes will get a CYA flag and leave it up to the replay people to overturn or not. Awesome.

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Cant throw a flag in final 2 minutes. Booth generated review

Ice_Ice_Brady said:

Believe it’s the play just before the Gilmore INT.

Thirty yard right sideline lob to Cooks at front of end zone. Gilmore is covering Cooks, though Cooks as a step on him. Cooks appears to be catching the ball and Harmon comes in with a hard hit and knocks it out. On replay we see Gilmore put his right arm into Cooks chest to get position as he turns around...not really a blatant PI, but it caused Cooks arm to be pinned, so he needed to make a near one-armed grab.

Exactly the type of play you should let go because virtually every contested pass will have something like that and it wasn’t an obvious call. In fact, I don’t think anyone thought it was a PI in real-time.

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Proves they were right to dump Cooks, he cant make a contested catch to save his life. He has to be wide open to get the ball.

cscirpoli said:

Proves they were right to dump Cooks, he cant make a contested catch to save his life. He has to be wide open to get the ball.

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So true...as Pats fan we figured it was a given he wouldn't make that play.

Danny said:

The play before Gilmore's interception.

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Hmmm. Does Gilmore actually get a hand on Cooks? It looks like Gilmore tried to commit PI, but neither he nor Harmon actually touched Cooks until the ball bounces off of Cook's hand. How exactly is that PI? I don't think Gilmore pins Cook's arm. He holds his arm awkwardly because of the way the ball is coming in

PatsDeb said:

Hmmm. Does Gilmore actually get a hand on Cooks? It looks like Gilmore tried to commit PI, but neither he nor Harmon actually touched Cooks until the ball bounces off of Cook's hand. How exactly is that PI? I don't think Gilmore pins Cook's arm. He holds his arm awkwardly because of the way the ball is coming in

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Only Cooks would know.

TommyBrady12 said:

No controversy here. What McCourty did was legal. What Robey-Coleman did was not.

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They are referring to the Gilmore hand holding breakup and after that Cooks was blasted by Harmon.