Dear Refs: Go **** Yourselves

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jetstream1066 said:
It's a public board....I've taken my fair share of shit here.....without even saying a word at times. I know where I stand in the pecking order. I know I'm a "guest" here. As for personal shit, be real....the respect has been mutual when it came to that...no way you can deny that.

Trust me....I need a 2 step step ladder for my "high horse'

You are a knowledgeable, passionate football fan, who loves her team, city, etc.....that's visible. However, regardless of what forum I am on, I speak my mind.....unfortunate if that offends you. If it did personally, my apologies.
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Bro you are more than a guest. You have become like family. The bastard child that nobody wants but family.
 
Something to remember, the refs see things in seconds from a far, we see things in slow mo, up close, from the tv screen. This isn't one of those things that is a blatant bad call, it was close (as in inches).
 
Coltsfan2theend said:
Something to remember, the refs see things in seconds from a far, we see things in slow mo, up close, from the tv screen. This isn't one of those things that is a blatant bad call, it was close (as in inches).
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Why are there refs that screw up the game then? Camera's can replace them...they can make a system that replaces their deficiencies...

This is the MO of globalization anyway...to automate most jobs.
 
Facemask rule, as written, wasn’t violated by Lions

Posted by Mike Florio on December 4, 2015, 12:37 AM EST

Notwithstanding the explanation provided by NFL V.P. of officiating Dean Blandino after the Packers beat the Lions with an untimed down after a facemask penalty at the end of a Stanford-band-style hackey-sack play by the Packers, the rules suggest that what happened to Green Bay quarterback Aaron Rodgers wasn’t a foul.

“No player shall grasp and control, twist, turn, push, or pull the facemask of an opponent in any direction,” Rule 12, Section 2, Article 14 states.

The rule comes with an important caveat: “If a player grasps an opponent’s facemask, he must immediately release it. If he does not immediately release it and controls his opponent, it is a foul.”

Lions defender Devin Taylor grazed the facemask of Aaron Rodgers, at best. If there was any grasping (and there wasn’t), Taylor immediately released the facemask.

The game-deciding penalty underscores the need for the NFL to embrace technology, not necessarily as part of a second-guess replay review process but as a first look at the call based on the many available camera angles. If the NFL had a video official in the booth charged with assisting the on-field crew on a real-time basis in getting all calls right, that official could have informed referee Carl Cheffers and there was no grasp and control, no twist, no turn, no push, and no pull of the facemask.

Even if an official makes that call “every time,” as Blandino claims, it doesn’t make the call right. The video evidence makes it clear that there was no violation.

The outcome couldn’t have been more dramatic, for either team. The Packers avoided falling 1.5 games behind the Vikings in the NFC North, and the Lions had, as a practical matter, a death blow applied to their season. All because the officials didn’t accurately interpret the events unfolding in front of them.

If the NFL wants seasons to hinge on such arbitrary outcomes, so be it. But those who prefer that the officials always get it right will always have the ability to complain when the correctable frailties of human perception give a team an unwarranted opportunity to win a game.
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So Blandino admits that the refs make that call incorrectly every time ... :spock: ??

So then either they should just make any touching of the face mask a penalty (if that's how they call it) or get some real-time video review judges as your quoted piece suggests. Doing nothing is basically admitting that the refs are unable or unwilling to make the right call...
 
patsRmyboys said:
Roger Doucheface said that the officials do an extraordinary job too... Is he right?
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I'm not keeping quiet on this . You can keep crying like babies. Man up & admit refs didn't cost them the game. You had valid class on the pats denver game . You don't on this game . Lions defense did on a poorly played hail Mary. They didn't have a jumper in front of Rodgers . Didn't box anyone out in the endzone .
 
Coltsfan2theend said:
Something to remember, the refs see things in seconds from a far, we see things in slow mo, up close, from the tv screen. This isn't one of those things that is a blatant bad call, it was close (as in inches).
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Been thinking that they should do away with the close up slow mo replays.

Only show real time replays from a reasonable distance.

Only The coaches and refs get to see the slow mo close up replays.
 
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