About that roughing the passer call.....

[Beethree]

These points have all been mentioned: While ticky tack, the defender's forearm did make contact with Brady's face mask, and by the letter of the law, it's a flag. Edelman got mugged and there should have been a flag. There were worse calls and non-calls against the Pats.

But amidst all the hue and cry from the whiners, what does not get mentioned is that it was on a 2nd and 7. The ball would not have been turned over on the play, they would not have had to punt on the next play, and it seems like they did pretty well on third down yesterday. I keep hearing/reading about a "controversial call" that bailed out a stalled drive. The drive was not stalled. It was second down.

 

[gobesmug]

Another key point ignored is that Mahomes had a similar looking play where RTP was not called. It's possible that the refs were instructed to be more careful and throw the flag the next time a defender came near a helmet on a QB.

 

[RedSleevesPinkStripes]

Didn't Romo mention something about the point of view angle so it may have looked worse than it was?

Ticky tack sure, but technically correct. If the roles were reversed and Flowers did that to Mahomes with NO call, I have to believe there would be KC fans complaining about it...just a hunch.

 

[Ring 6]

The ref is behind Brady. The defender karate chops toward Brady’s head/chest area. Brady’s head moves backward from the contact.
From behind him it’s an obvious call even if it’s sort of an illusion.
People somehow think the refs have whatever view from the cameras that is best and also that they can tell from any angle exactly where the hit was in real time.

Refs miss calls because
A) they are human
B) they are in one position not whichever one would have given the best view
C) if we see players do things like jump offsides, blow a coverage, drop a pass, etc why would we expect refs to be perfect?

 

[signbabybrady]

The ref was behind him. From that angle it would of and obviously did look like Brady got blasted in the face. Based on how close it was from a good angle it was easy to see how he would see it that way. Sux for them and helped us. Still not worse than the OPI they missed. We still had 3rd down they basically got a free score (maybe they earn it anyway).

Oh and that ref used to stand behind the LBs where he would have seen it more clearly more ****ification of football.

Edit: apparently some type faster.

 

[Patriot Missile]

Could care less. So many bad calls to go around. Didn’t feel they were letting the Pats secondary play while Chiefs played unchecked for a majority of that 4th quarter on both sides of the ball.

 

[Ice_Ice_Brady]

Ever since those morons changed the catch rule from objective to subjective mid-season, it seems like there are about 12 plays a game they are excruciating tossups even on slow mo replay from 30 angles. Serves those assh0les right.

 

[Silver Blue&Red]

Every game has controversial calls.
It never fails. We are all guilty of it (*****ing).

It's just different when the Pats do it.
The whole world disagrees. HA HA.

"Us against the world"