Posted on 01/12/2025 8:49:34 AM PST by DIRTYSECRET
Jauan Jennings was ejected from the 49ers’ Week 18 game before he could reach the 1,000-yard receiving mark.
Jennings was called for back-to-back penalties for unnecessary roughness which led to his disqualification midway through the first half.
The league determined Thomas and Murphy-Bunting were the instigators.
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Please be advised that when you're dealing wit any authority figure the authority figure is not into what's right. He's out for himself. The fact that the victim(Jennings) wasn't fined is after the fact and he misses out on his 1000 yard season.
Jennings did not have to fight back but he did have to get off of the guy who was looking for a fight and wouldn’t let go.
Oldest rule in contact sports:
action draws the refs attention
reaction draws the penalty
It’s not really the refs being out for themselves it’s just how things work when players out number refs, they can’t see everything.
both plays right here
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FGKxl8CMSn8
Cowardly refs. If it’s nobody else’s issue then it’s nothing. The NFL sweeps it under the rug by fining the right players.
Last game of a losing season. Jennings may not have cared.
He’s a heck of a blocker. Plays through the whistle. They got him in the 7th round of the draft. The perfect #3 receiver.
“Oldest rule in contact sports:
action draws the refs attention
reaction draws the penalty”
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So true. Back in high school an opposing player intentionally stepped on my hand, with his full body weight and prominent cleats applying the pressure. Of course I retaliated and got an unsportsmanlike call. The ref was right there the whole time.
But Nick Bosa WAS fined?
#MAGA
Otherwise he is only making half a gazzilion dollars.
It would help greatly if the announcers would start criticizing the refs, as is done in the MLB. Lots of times, I hear the announcers question the umpires bad calls, but you hardly - if ever - hear the announcers in NFL games question the refs call. The NFL announcers are a bunch of cowardly yes-men.
“Please be advised that when you’re dealing wit any authority figure the authority figure is not into what’s right. He’s out for himself.”
If you can figure out a way to stop the illegal violence and attack attitude in this sport and still have appeal to the public, you’d make a mint. This game is nothing more than violence as everything that is there to counter the actual success of a play is based on it. It’s what many sports have gone to, tried to erase, and either caused the failure of the sport to draw and reversed their actions. The NHL is a perfect example of another sport. These sports are gladiators, not players. And the tools they are given is what has generated the success of the game over the later years.
So when it gets to be too much for the game, the players are tossed to save face for the game by rule, not the officials. They are doing what they are told to make it look like there is control and it is a game and not the brutality it really is.
Example, something I have noticed lately:
Years ago in line play for the defence they were using a head slap, mostly just a belt to the head, to swim an offensive lineman aside. It was outlawed. Now watch the running backs with their “stiff arm” which has developed into nothing more than a punch to the head. But it improves offense and sells the popcorn and pennants.
Watching a game last week where a scuffle started in the back of the end zone between a receiver and a defensive back and another defensive back came in from behind using his body and knocked the offensive player about 10 feet. He joined the fight, not started it.
Back in 2023 the NFL stated it will enforce strong penalties for fighting. To enforce this message, the NFL outlined strict penalties for those who engage in altercations before or during a game. Players or club personnel involved in a fight may face ejection, suspension, and a “significant fine.” Very seldom is anyone ejected, fined, no one even talked to by the league office. It is ignored. And the defensive back that joined the fight in this case was instrumental in their winning as he later had an interception.
The fights sell. Pushing the rules and allowing their alternative results makes money. No harm, no foul, no losses of cash. Justifying taking actions for the fights is window dressing, not alternatives.
And this has leaked down into NCAA and National Federation games where the kids “play” this sport for recreation along with learning sportsmanship, teamwork, and fair play. That went out the window, didn’t it?
wy69
I’m pointing out the truth. Often times the ref isn’t looking at the players involved. There’s 22 players on the field and 8 refs. This is especially true for post whistle problem, when the refs no longer have zones of responsibility. Some player starts some crap, which a ref catches out of the corner of their eye, the refs turns their head and sees the retaliation.
Funny that you hold up the MLB, where officiating is so awful that coming out on the field to argue with the refs is a tradition of the sport. Meanwhile NFL refs get criticized by the announcers all the time. You just don’t pay attention.
Interesting take. I am always amazed at how observant the announcers are, often calling things as soon as the flag goes down, usually before the refs call the call. I would get a headache trying to learn the endless rules, old and new. And the networks have walking, talking encyclopedia type observers who review the calls and voice their professional judgement. By and large, really good work, IMHO.
The refs tossed him for doing his job too well.
It is a teachable moment. One that is very important for a post legal low trust society.
Jennings was the target. The actions were going to keep going in order for Jennings to not get his record. So in order to have some semblance of order, you remove the target.
Not because of rules, but because to keep him in risked a further altercation with men who can break the refs like a twig.
In a few years, you will see refs at the pro level get injured and the view be “Well, that zebra deserved it!”
You can not enforce rules in a society like ours is becoming. You can only curry favor.
Again, a very important lesson.
You sure got that right. My sentiments exactly.
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