T'official 2014-15 NFL thread

[Winged_Wheel88]

 

[Winged_Wheel88]

90% of the posters in the NFL general forum and 50% of the Dallas posters there are saying that Detroit was hosed by the officiating on the "non" PI call and also in the subsequent non-holding penalties on Dallas's TD drive.

That tells me all I need to know.

 

[Nasty_Magician]

I understand being upset but the bottom line is Detroit didn't do enough to win the game. Again, the Boys got hosed on a number of calls/non calls as well. The OPI on Terrance Williams in the 1st half could've been a drive killer. Instead they score on the next play. The Lions had a 10 yard punt, they had turnovers, they had a Cowboys fumble recovery negated when the Cowboys player fumbled it right back, then proceeded to do nothing with that drive. They took a number of stupid, legitimate penalties to keep drives alive. Bottom line, they were not the better team.

 

[Nasty_Magician]

 

[Winged_Wheel88]

I understand being upset but the bottom line is Detroit didn't do enough to win the game. Again, the Boys got hosed on a number of calls/non calls as well. The OPI on Terrance Williams in the 1st half could've been a drive killer. Instead they score on the next play. The Lions had a 10 yard punt, they had turnovers, they had a Cowboys fumble recovery negated when the Cowboys player fumbled it right back, then proceeded to do nothing with that drive. They took a number of stupid, legitimate penalties to keep drives alive. Bottom line, they were not the better team.

No, the bottom line was, we had a close game between two evenly matched teams with 8 minutes to go with the refs missing calls right and left up until that point and then it swung decisively in Dallas's favor at the end when it mattered most.

I do not understand your argument. It sounds as if though you are not disagreeing that the officiating all game was SHIT...just that it was "balanced" shit near the end which it was most certainly not.

Detroit's penalties at the end WERE legit. So were the THREE offensive holding penalties that were NOT called. We're talking some really flagrant stuff here. Any one of those would have been murderous to Dallas's drive if called. If the officiating were truly balanced, you call everything or nothing.

 

[forty_three]

It's not just the one phantom flag - the two concussed Steelers coming back last night and the whole concussion issues, the tweaking of the rules to all offense, the Ray Rice and Adrian Peterson situations and the worst commish of all time running the show.

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I wasn't watching another game this year either, but this just solidifies it.

I have found life to be a little nicer since I gave up completely on football. For example, you can go out and do stuff on Sunday afternoons without many other people out. If I could just figure out how to block all discussions of it on facebook (Baby Bleacher did good, I hear), that would be great.

I thought I heard him say it was ironic they picked the flag up.

Was it like 10,000 spoons when all you need was a knife?




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[dash]

I hear Tim Donaghy placed a huge bet on the Cowboys, but I'm waiting for confirmation.

 

[forty_three]

Maybe the NFL should be expanding to Vegas, not the NHL.

 

[pixburgher66]

Sure, then you at the very absolute least call offsetting and replay the down.

 

[elocomotive]

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Talk about a great teaser!!

 

[dash]

Maybe the NFL should be expanding to Vegas, not the NHL.

CFL had a team for one season in Las Vegas - Who can forget the Las Vegas Posse?

/Settle down Madonna, I said Posse.

 

[elocomotive]

I understand being upset but the bottom line is Detroit didn't do enough to win the game. Again, the Boys got hosed on a number of calls/non calls as well. The OPI on Terrance Williams in the 1st half could've been a drive killer. Instead they score on the next play. The Lions had a 10 yard punt, they had turnovers, they had a Cowboys fumble recovery negated when the Cowboys player fumbled it right back, then proceeded to do nothing with that drive. They took a number of stupid, legitimate penalties to keep drives alive. Bottom line, they were not the better team.

I agree with you for the most part, but it doesn't mean that the concerns aren't legitimate as well and I don't know if I'd go so far as to say "they were not the better team."

I'd say it was an even game where, unfortunately, some incorrect calls may have decided the game. However, nobody can have an expectation of reffing perfection when they step on the field in any sport.

All the more reason I think the NFL's instant replay rules are stupid. Let coaches challenge anything (including penalties called or not called) as long as the whistle hasn't blown and as long as that challenge process has a limit. Then you put the onus on the coaches and take some of the pressure off the refs.

 

[dash]

All the more reason I think the NFL's instant replay rules are stupid. Let coaches challenge anything (including penalties called or not called) as long as the whistle hasn't blown and as long as that challenge process has a limit. Then you put the onus on the coaches and take some of the pressure off the refs.

The CFL adopted a coaches' challege for pass interference this past season and generally speaking it worked quite well. I can see the NFL adopting this down the road.

 

[evolver115]

The CFL adopted a coaches' challege for pass interference this past season and generally speaking it worked quite well. I can see the NFL adopting this down the road.

That is interesting. How does it work? Do they have a separate challenge for PI, or does it act like any other coaches challenge?

There was a play in the Steelers/Ravens game where a deep pass could have been called for PI because the DB tripped the WR.

 

[dash]

That is interesting. How does it work? Do they have a separate challenge for PI, or does it act like any other coaches challenge?

There was a play in the Steelers/Ravens game where a deep pass could have been called for PI because the DB tripped the WR.

Pass Interference officially reviewable | CFL.ca | Official Site of the Canadian Football League

Pass Interference Video Review
Coaches are now allowed to challenge both called and potential defensive pass interference fouls under certain conditions.

The new rule now provides a team with the ability to use any and all of its Coaches' Challenges to challenge a called or potential pass interference foul up to the final three minutes of a game. In the final three minutes of a game, and overtime, a team can only challenge such a call or non-call one time, and only if it still has an unused challenge and a timeout remaining.

A coach must challenge to trigger a video review of a pass interference call or a potential pass interference call. They will not be subject to automatic review by the Command Centre.

An unsuccessful challenge of a potential pass interference foul in the final three minutes will result in the loss of a timeout. An unsuccessful challenge of an actual pass interference call in the final minutes will not result in the loss of a timeout.

 

[evolver115]

^^^

That looks like a well executed review rule. So, that means the NFL will never do anything like it.

 

[evolver115]

St. Louis Rams owner planning stadium site in Los Angeles - ESPN Los Angeles

Not quite as bad as loading the moving vans in the middle of the night, but it's in the ballpark.

 

[sabresfaninthesouth]

Perhaps the only things I don't like about the CFL implementation is that they can only challenge one PI play in the final 3 minutes and that (if I'm reading right), if PI was called and they challenge that it should not have been in the final 3 minutes, it doesn't cost them a timeout.

Could be because I don't fully understand the rules for coaches challenges in the CFL, but I'm all in favor of allowing multiple challenges in the final 3 minutes, provided the previous ones were successful. If the coach was right each time, why not let him keep challenging?

 

[dash]

Another missed call that flew under the radar.

https://ca.finance.yahoo.com/news/nfl-says-refs-screwed-another-212121365.html

 

[Winged_Wheel88]

Like I said before, I'm never forgetting this game. Ever.