Posted on 12/04/2015 1:29:08 PM PST by Red Badger
Five years ago, few would have freaked out about the face-mask penalty that extended Thursday night's wild game at Ford Field. (Trust me, it happened five years ago, and many have long since forgotten it.)
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NFL officiating is under siege this season, in many cases by its own making, but referee Carl Cheffers' call Thursday night does not fit neatly into that box. NFL officials have been making that call for decades, using the rotation of a quarterback's head and helmet during real time as a reliable sign that a defender had illegally grabbed his face mask. You just wouldn't have realized it until technology emerged to show you.
When you slow down and watch Thursday night's play slowly in high definition, you can see Detroit Lions defensive end Devin Taylor's right hand graze the helmet of Green Bay Packers quarterback Aaron Rodgers. Taylor's hand then slipped down to Rodgers' right shoulder on what would have been the final play of the game. The resulting twist was not violent, and not all officials would have judged it the same way. But the NFL rulebook says no player can "grasp and control, twist, turn, push or pull the face mask of an opponent in any direction," and that's what appeared to have happened in live action.
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Thursday night, the Packers used the extra play provided by the penalty to complete a 61-yard Hail Mary touchdown pass to win, 27-23. The immediate narrative suggested the penalty call gave the Packers a key divisional victory, when it reality it provided the Packers a chance for a miracle. According to ESPN senior analytics specialist Brian Burke, the Packers' chances of completing a Hail Mary from that position on the field was less than 5 percent.
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Yeah...that extra play at the end was Aaron Rodger’s ultimate Discount Doublecheck!
I agree it was a bad call. But it would not have mattered if the Lions had a clue how to defend a Hail Mary pass.
I am neither a Lions or Packers fan, but they was robbed!.
This should have been reviewed upstairs. The call on the field should have been reversed and the game ended.........................
As soon as I saw the Detroit defender whiff past Rodgers, leaving him free to run a few yards and launch the pass, I knew it was over.
No mention of the obvious pass interference non-call prior to the legit facemask, however minor.
Had he been an honest man, he would have said he wasn’t facemasked, but instead he got up and played the ‘victim’..........shame on him.................I now have no respect for him at all............................
Which play was that?......................
Have flag will toss
Knee jerk reaction
Zebras are blind or appear so
Agreed, but that wasn’t what happened last night....................
Discount Double Check DIS?
Go VIKES!!
NFL Ping!..................
Go Dolphins!
Oh heck, wrong thread, and it doesn't matter anyway.
5.56mm
But, then again...
how do you NOT put Calvin Johnson in the end zone as Free Safety on that play?
I garan-damn-tee you he can out jump Rodgers for that ball.
If there weren’t bad calls made football fans would argue about politics. NFL doesn’t want this,they purposely make bad calls to keep fans arguing about football.
Now that there is funny.
Not much into football anymore, but that pic is funny as hell!
Baseball on the other hand...
is LIFE
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