The officiating on a number of games yesterday have pretty much been the dominant conversation on the Sirius NFL channel this morning. Normally on the day after a slate of games have been played, it's virtually 100% game talk. Not today.
Where was the screen pass caught? Was he at or behind the line of scrimmage?
They show the replays during the games. Even the retired officials who explain that shit said it was illegal. Hell there are some tackles lining up like a fucking slot WR. O-line can not move before the ball is snapped. It is an unfair advantage. It needs to stop.
Why do we cite retired officials as the end all be all in threads were people are whining about officials? It’s another iteration of the same damn thing. The league has looked at it carefully because of all the bitching. The league has come out and said that the Chiefs OT who made this famous isn’t actually getting a false start. He can go as soon as the center moves the ball even a fraction of an inch.
And they are penalized. As long as the OT sets up his inside foot on the line of scrimmage he’s allowed the width of his body for him to stagger his outside foot. The inside foot establishes him as being on the line of scrimmage.
They don’t move before the ball is snapped. They move AS the ball is stepped.
Agreed. These "rules experts" are the same assholes that got the calls wrong to begin with. But they retired because they're not even good enough to do that anymore.
That's not correct. He can put his feet wherever he wants. His helmet has to break the plane of the centers beltline. They even give them some lattitude because several years ago they changed the rule so O Linemen do not need to put their hand on the ground. But can sit upright with their feet in the same positions as if their helmet did lltouch the centers belt. The refs are generally letting Guards line up where they break the centers belt, but then letting tackles line up where they break the Guards belt. It creates kind of a flying V formation of the O-Line. You see it in almost every game. But some Tackles aren't even that far up on the line.
No. They move before. Noone would be complaining if it was at the same time.
Correct on the rules point of relation to the center. I stand corrected.
It was never as bad as this year. There were some bad calls that changed games but it was not all game long.
Your old eyes are failing you.
Ridiculous. I think most of us are grown up enough to watch the replay and make our own conclusions.
You are just giddy because refs called 10 penalties on the Phins last night and ZERO against the Eagles.
You’re watching the tackle in relation to the rest of the OL and not for first movement by the center. These OTs who are good at it have just eliminated the split second lag time from center movement to center snap.
They are not watching the ball they know what the snap count is and move just prior to it. It is that simple.
Didn’t need it. The Dolphins can’t compete on the line of scrimmage.
I’ve seen a face mask that should have been called against the Eagles (very next play was the tipped ball INT TD; made no impact) and I saw an uncalled hold on Jason Kelce that would have erased a 3 yard Swift gain. That’s about it. The Eagles played a pretty clean game minus Hurts ball security issues (a mounting problem).
5 yards behind the LOS
Aaron Glenn still has not figured out to rush a guy up the middle against running QBs. Hopefully they tear him a new asshole this week cause it is not that hard to figure out.
If that’s the case then there is no way they can flag an OL for being downfield.
Seen a ton of that this year, and it is rarely called.
