Sunday Night Football: Denver Broncos @ Indianapolis Colts

[piss-tons]

Both teams played great, but to say the officials didn't hand the Colts the game in the final 3 minutes...Lot of questionable/bad/no calls that all went in the Colts favor.

The offensive line handed the Colts the game, not the officials.

 

[Jakology]

The Colts were better

But that doesn't excuse abysmally bad one-sided officiating down the stretch.

The zebras almost ruined a great game by interfering on ticky tack stuff....then ignoring blatantly obvious stuff....then forgetting the rulebook entirely

But Peyton was better than them. Its not fair. This should've been a W for the Broncos, but too many boneheaded mistakes, unable to block the Colts' pass rush, and the refs kept that from happening.

 

[BF4L]

So funny how when Peytons team loses and people say bad calls nobody says anything. Brady and the Pats end up in a 10 page debate

 

[Jakology]

So funny how when Peytons team loses and people say bad calls nobody says anything. Brady and the Pats end up in a 10 page debate

Well the bad calls were evident. As they were in the Pats games. But you know as well as I do that Brady has not been himself. He has no excuse.

 

[Hornsstampede2.0]

The stupidest one of all was enforcing the substitution rule on the FG attempt.

That is a rule that most high school part time refs could tell you.

that one bothered me the most

 

[BF4L]

Well the bad calls were evident. As they were in the Pats games. But you know as well as I do that Brady has not been himself. He has no excuse.

Ya I do but I still think it is funny

 

[RobBase]

 

[Fountain City Blues]

I really don't care much for the calls, Refs screw teams all the time, but you know what, if you give up 39 points, you DESERVE to lose.

 

[Blackshirt]

How do you hand the game to a team already 9 points ahead?

By completely making the team behind by 9 unable to get the ball back and not acknowledging db's tackling wr's before he has a chance to make the catch.

 

[piss-tons]

By completely making the team behind by 9 unable to get the ball back and not acknowledging db's tackling wr's before he has a chance to make the catch.

The DB was turned around and went up for the ball so he has equal opportunity in trying to catch it. There was no pass interference there.

 

[TheSnowdog]

Refs have been horrible down the stretch

The botched fumble
The personal foul
The missed PI
The nonstop flags on the punt

And now they made Denver wait for substitutions on a FG??

The botched fumble: The fumble by Denver was a legit fumble. What part was botched? The part where the Denver player did not have full control of the football and the Colts player had both hands on the ball? Looked like a fumble and Colts recovery to me.

The personal foul: Are you talking about when that knucklehead Vickerson bumped into Luck? That was no accident. Vickerson clearly tried to get away with a bump and got caught. It was clearly roughing the passes in the technical definition. You are not supposed to touch the QB after the play. Vickerson did and that idiot got caught.

The nonstop flags on the punt: I'm still trying to figure out why this is the refs fault. The Colts held on the plays. What do you want the refs to do? swallow their flags? But then you'll complain about not calling the penalties. How about this as a novel concept for that cry baby John Fox? Decline the penalty

I'm not sure which missed PI call you are referencing but I agree that the refs screwed up on the FG substitution situation.

But that did not cost the Broncos the game. There were a lot of plays in the game that could be pointed to as contributing to the Broncos' loss.

Bottom line - tough game played by both teams and Colts won fair and square.

 

[Doublejive]

Great game by both teams a joy to watch.

 

[Stomp]

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[Am I Blue Through it All?]

Beating 3 of the top 5 teams is impressive but losses to Miami and San Diego is not a good look either

Yeah, that is a real head scratcher. We stunk those two games up.