Posted on 01/21/2019 9:32:57 AM PST by Red Badger
After dramatic overtime wins, Tom Brady and Bill Belichick are headed to their ninth (!) Super Bowl together, to face off against young Jared Goff and Sean McVay. But the talk today is all about an obvious, game-deciding blown call, and what the NFL must do to address an officiating crisis.
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The story this morning should be, would be, Rams coach Sean McVay taking a franchise that had missed the postseason 12 consecutive times to the Super Bowl in just his second year, and going right through the raucous Superdome to do it. The story this morning should be, would be, Patriots quarterback Tom Brady’s incomparable brilliance in the face of a worthy young challenger at Arrowhead.
But that’s not where we are on this Monday morning.
As has been the case, to a lesser degree, on other Monday mornings this year, you woke up today to more talk about a bad call in a football game. And you should. Because what happened in the NFC Championship Game on Sunday was as bad as it gets, the NFL’s worst nightmare come alive after a year in which the officials were criticized constantly. A terrible officiating failure cost a team a trip to the Super Bowl.
That’s no exaggeration either. There was 1:48 showing when Saints quarterback Drew Brees feathered the ball down the right sideline to Tommylee Lewis, who looked back for it, only to take a crushing head shot from Rams corner Nickell Robey-Coleman, who was on time for the hit like the Giants used to be on time for Tom Coughlin’s meetings: about five minutes early.
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I would do the same thing. The whistle is the power of stopping and starting the game and to have that little twirp blowing it on the sidelines shows he is a little *itc* and there should be a penalty. No different than throwing something onto the filed.
Well, KC being completely unable to cover a quick slant route certainly helped the Pats considerably.
Defense still wins Championships.
Pats won on account of a coin flip.
No truer words were ever spoken. Both defenses were on their last legs,heaving and gasping for breath. If the chiefs had won the flip, they also, would of scored.
Thirty eight points were scored in the fourth quarter.
I guess there was people all over the place doing that.
Besides that. The saying is that the fans are part of the game. If they think they can get away with crap like that at a home game then they can suffer the penalty against their team.
There was a fan who ran out on the field at the chiefs pats game. 15 yards against the Chiefs.
“a transplant to LA...”
The Rams started out in Cleveland in 1936 and remained there until 1946 when they moved to Los Angeles.
They played in LA/Anaheim until 1995 when they moved to St Louis.
They moved back to LA in 2016. So that’s...
Cleveland........10 years
Los Angeles....49 years
St Louis...........20 years
Los Angeles......3 years
So yeah, they’re an LA team.
The previously-unheard-of "tuck rule" immediately comes to mind.
And how many here recall the original "Hail Mary Pass" in the 1975 playoffs, when Roger Staubach launched a last second desperation pass to Drew Pearson, who body-slammed Nate Wright to the turf before waltzing into the end zone with the winning score? And the official standing there scratching his a**?
Minnesota fans (myself included) we're livid; one of them so much so he beaned an official with a whiskey bottle.
Yes, it was over 43 years ago.
It's not like Vikings fans (myself included) would carry a grudge...
The Perfumed Prince should never be touched. The new name of the penalty is Roughing the Brady.
Yup. And for all the wailing about the effect of the coin flip - when I ran the numbers a couple of years ago, the win/loss of those getting the ball first in overtime was one game from exactly 50%. Some coaches pick to kick first and they are generally just as successful, since they get each the advantage of their opponent starting deep (and getting the ball on a shorter field if they hold up), knowing exactly what they need to do to counter on the scoreboard, and the luxury of using all four downs.
Los Angeles Rams are the original and always forever America’s Team.
What has always made me angry is why in the hell the NFL cant do like Baseball and have their refs trained and paid like professional refs.
That’s why I like the idea somebody proposed about making it two-possessions in OT, in the playoffs, which would counter somewhat the field position issue. So give each team two possessions, and whomever has the most points wins, if it’s still tied, then keep trading possessions until a team has the advantage (and like college FB, force them to go for 2 if they score a TD)
15 yards EVERY single time.
Are you talking about the Saints fan dressed up like Payton?
Saints blew the lead 3 times. Had homefield advantage, the Taints coach was blowing a whistle, disrupting the plays. No flags for that but the Rams don’t deserve to be there?
They are, but it is muted because there was a blatant pass interference on the same play which wasn't called. The effect was about the same.
Just play the whole 1/4 in playoffs. Keep doing that until one team wins. It’s a brutal sport, so be it.
That's pretty much what they do in soccer, they play a 30-minutes of Extra Time. Although they stop after the 30 minutes. They had a "Golden Goal" for awhile where the game would end on the first goal, but they got rid of it. LOL, maybe after the first OT they can just have the kickers kick 5 Field Goals.
Not at all. Pats won because from the midway point in the 4th every time KC got the Pats to 3rd and long KC put out a cover 2 deep, giving away easy first downs. Pats converted 3 3rd and 10 in that OT possession. Clearly the KC D had enough gas to get TO 3rd and 10, but when there’s a massive soft zone with the first down line right in the middle of it what’s going to happen is pretty predictable.
Ignoring all the tugs, and handcheck trailing like a kite - there were loads of pretty flagrant pass interference that weren’t called. Do they not watch Gronkowski wearing CBs like a backpack and not getting a call? Unlike many playoff games where they are just letting them play, this wasn’t at all balanced. How about the blind-side hit to Edelman’s head on Edelman after the interception?
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