I miss Jon Ryan.
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I miss Jon Ryan.
NFL proba ly wanted there to be fewer penalties tonigh after all the noise about the preponderance of penalties overall thus far this year.
Smart move to bat it out by Kam. His first smart move of the year.
edit: Whomever pushed the ball out of the endzone I mean.
Damn Calvin. Way to puck that up.
None of Wilsons ducks were intercepted tonight. Boo, Lions!
Chancellor looks like Elliott out there
Game set match.
Wilson is like a stronger, more athletic, more accurate Fran Tarkenton.
Kind of a lame ending for a mostly boring game. 4th quarter salvaged it. Wish the Leos had won. They really should have at least had the overtime... :/
I wonder if the league will fine Chancellor for punching Megatron's arm. They always seem to conveniently ignore that rule when it produces highlight turnovers.
http://profootballtalk.nbcsports.com...-been-flagged/
Seahawks should have been flagged for knocking the ball out of the end zone. Lions should have had it at the half yard line. FUCK SEATTLE!!!
I think the Seahawks are a below average team. They beat the winless Bears at home and barely beat the winless Lions at home (and probably should have lost). I actually don't expect them to make the playoffs this year.
I remember week 4, 1996, Brooks had the ball punched out heading into the end zone at Minnesota, and MN got the touchback. ever since then, I thought it was an absurd rule. Ugliest of all ways to lose. Within inches of the end zone AND they ultimately screw up the call. Seems all too familiar.Quote:
Originally Posted by Florioflusher
The Seahawks really truly do get some of the worst officiating blunders to go in their favor don't they? Amazing how lucky that team seems to get with the bad calls.
Now they are claiming the back judge knew the rule but felt it was inadvertent. You fucking joking? The bullshit and luck this team inherits in that stadium is maddening.
Couldn't see it I guess.
https://vine.co/v/e2DKtaQ6rVD
Football Perspective @fbgchase 1h1 hour ago
Pete Carroll looks so nervous in this press conference you'd think they asked him if he lacked institutional control.
Brian Burke @bburkeESPN 1h1 hour ago
If illegal batting were called, DET has 1st-goal-1 with 1:45 and a .807 WP, meaning a missed call would be a .702 WP error.
70% change in likely game outcome with blown call.
I think the officials have always had some discretion as to intent. There have been plenty of fumbles in the end zone where players touch the ball trying to recover it, but are unable to do so before it goes out of the end zone. What made this one different is that Wright batted the ball without making any attempt to recover it. That's why it should have been a penalty, where as a penalty is not called if players make an unsuccessful attempt to recover it.
Yes, and this is exactly the excuse the refs are using that in the refs judgement the player was not intentionally tapping it out of bounds. And just like the last time this happened, the ref making the call is the only person on the planet who saw it that way.
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/B7pzgR-CMAAe6Ac.jpg
What's kind of funny is that seemingly no one on the planet - not Jim Caldwell, not Jon Gruden, not the fans, nobody - knew this rule. Tirico never said a word. The coaches didn't bitch at all. It wasn't until after when somebody postgame interviewed a ref that this came up.
So essentially the rule was there but no one really seemed to know that. Had Caldwell or one of his assistants known the rule, he might've immediately jumped the officials about it, so they might've then huddled briefly (pretending it was their idea) and then thrown a flag. We've seen that happen - the coach jumps one of the refs, the light bulb goes on, the ref calls a huddle, there's a discussion, there's a flag. So it's not really officially a review of a non-penalty, because no one's asking for a booth view or anything - just dudes huddling to make sure they get the call right.
I still blame the Lions for this loss.
The Westwood one guys (Warner) called it after watching a replay and were baffled how the Stripes got play going again so fast. I can't stand the TV heads so keep the sound down. Radio was talking about it following the play IIRC.