NFLN just showed unpenalized jests player's BANNED throat slash that possibly took a TD from NE

[supafly]

We scored one offensive touchdown, and had one third down conversion. They helped to overpower our OL and took Brady's (limited) receiving options away very effectively.

While there's always a call or two that can go either way, the fact is that they played better football than our B squad on Sunday, so more power to them. That said, I do believe that we could be getting more calls, but I don't think anyone is expecting this to happen. The underdog is always more likely to get the borderline calls.

 

[PatriotSpy]

Just win on Sunday. All hands on deck.

 

[tasmlab]

They seriously ban that? Who cares about a sack dance

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If the Pats need the refs to call penalties on dancing to beat the Jets, we have bigger problems.

 

[RobertWeathers]

If the Pats need the refs to call penalties on dancing to beat the Jets, we have bigger problems.

Thats the larger issue. Because of these close games every call/play impacts the outcome.

 

[Kontradiction]

I remember seeing it during the game and turning to my dad and asked "isn't that illegal now?". Hard to believe no zebra saw that. All eyes were on him at that point in time.

 

[brdmaverick]

They seriously ban that? Who cares about a sack dance

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Yeah, that was my reaction as well. In fact, I'm glad they didn't call that. I don't like seeing game-changing calls on something ticky tack that didn't even happen in the course of the action (ie, like throwing an unsportsmanlike conduct penalty on a coach or something). Sure, I know rules are rules, but I can live with this non call.

Especially in this case where it isn't completely obvious to me. It just looks like he is making an 'x' with his arms. Maybe he is a fan of Family Feud.

 

[TinhWoodhead]

I remember seeing it during the game and turning to my dad and asked "isn't that illegal now?". Hard to believe no zebra saw that. All eyes were on him at that point in time.

They thought he was choking

 

[zoostation]

Keyshawn used to do the throat slash every time he burnt Ty Law (which unfortunately was somewhat often) for a 1st down or TD back in the 90's.

 

[DarrylS]

Sorry Peter King but my inferiority is showing once again, however if the Pats did this all hell would break lose and somehow the refs would be in the bag for us..

Peyton* becomes the victim of the nefarious press, Brady/Belichick become cheats.. interesting how this all plays out..

 

[JMC00]

Keyshawn used to do the throat slash every time he burnt Ty Law (which unfortunately was somewhat often) for a 1st down or TD back in the 90's.

He's the reason why it got banned.

 

[patriot1136]

they looked the other way on that one on purpose

 

[JMC00]

If the Pats need the refs to call penalties on dancing to beat the Jets, we have bigger problems.

Not the point at all. It's just shining more light on ref consistency. By nfl rules that needs to be called just like they called Butler on a perceived slight jersey hold on a 3rd and 4 that stopped the clock with 1:25 left in the 4th and would have forced the jests to punt.

On this play it was 3rd and 4 and the Pats kicked a FG, if the refs rightly threw the flag it puts the Pats at the 10 yard line, maybe they score a TD, maybe they don't.

If you are going to throw a ticky tack flag on Butler at the end of the 4th then be consistent and throw a flag for an unsportsmanlike taunting penalty.

 

[Rob0729]

We're onto Miami.

 

[juny]

i thought the throat slash was with just one hand. maybe the convoluted rule book has the exact definition for it.

 

[RobertWeathers]

i thought the throat slash was with just one hand. maybe the convoluted rule book has the exact definition for it.

There is nothing in the NFL Rulebook that defines the exact gesture of a "throat slash" (one hand, two hands, one finger(s), etc).

With that said, if Blandino comes out of his crib today and says he did not throat slash that would be incredibly lame.

There are 100s of movies in which a swordsman is using two swords to behead his enemy.

http://www.nfl.com/static/content/public/image/rulebook/pdfs/15_Rule12_Player_Conduct.pdf

 

[WhoaDirty]

It's kind of hard to tell it's a throat slash when he it's a double. I've just assumed that the Patriots won't get calls like this, or the Marshall push off anymore, so I just move on and don't worry about it.

 

[PatsWickedPissah]

I remember seeing it during the game and turning to my dad and asked "isn't that illegal now?". Hard to believe no zebra saw that. All eyes were on him at that point in time.

It's knowingly letting crap like this slide by w/o a flag (and the inverse, if it's the Pats) that folks like myself worry about from the NYJFL.

That said, it's chickenshit to want us to possibly win just because of a braindead move by an opposing player that had no effect whatsoever on an actual play.

 

[RxJock1120]

I may be in the minority here, but I really never want a game decided by a penalty/non-call. That non-call was not why we lost the game, nor was Butlers ticky tack PI call. There are always bad calls/non-call in any game, for both teams. While this year has certainly seen an abnormal amount of bad calls go against the Pats, I can't say that in this particular game the officiating is what cost us a W.

 

[TinhWoodhead]

I may be in the minority here, but I really never want a game decided by a penalty/non-call. That non-call was not why we lost the game, nor was Butlers ticky tack PI call. There are always bad calls/non-call in any game, for both teams. While this year has certainly seen an abnormal amount of bad calls go against the Pats, I can't say that in this particular game the officiating is what cost us a W.

Not giving Mr Brady the ball in OT was what cost the game (along w/the before halftime debacle).

 

[Zeus]

I may be in the minority here, but I really never want a game decided by a penalty/non-call. That non-call was not why we lost the game, nor was Butlers ticky tack PI call. There are always bad calls/non-call in any game, for both teams. While this year has certainly seen an abnormal amount of bad calls go against the Pats, I can't say that in this particular game the officiating is what cost us a W.

The Butler call vs. the throat-slash non-call are two entirely different things. The latter is part of Commissioner Scheisskopf's idiotic crusade to invent lame rules that have nothing to do with the play on the field, thereby allowing the Senior Citizen Zebra/TV Star of the week to make arbitrary calls that can have a big impact on the outcome of any game any time.

The Butler penalty affected the play on the field. I think Butler went right up to the line and that foul doesn't get called as often as it does (which is the very definition of a marginal call). But they called it, so it was a penalty and a potential game-changer at that.

I agree with your bigger point though. The difference between good teams and great ones is that the great teams play outside the margin of error. Teams that dominate never lose because of a bad call or a bad bounce.