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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The Hatriots may be a hot team but that doesn’t mean people nationwide love them or want to watch. They aren’t a big fan base.
The previously-unheard-of “tuck rule” immediately comes to mind.
I would watch Tom Brady in the Superbore more than any other team. He is amazing to watch.
Or just an actual quarter.
It was an awful penalty call. But ones just as bad happen several times a season...and to the Patriots defenders too. As much as the meme is out there about Brady being so protected, he’s generally in the middle to bottom quarter of QBs getting Roughing the Passer calls.
There was an ESPN article posted a few days ago that put it at 28 calls since the beginning of 2009. That’s 2.8 calls per season.
Watching with a room of Rams fans, everyone did agree that should have been a call. We are glad to see the Rams going, but we hate the asterisk.
Were they enjoying their wine and Brie?
And in the NHL they do hit up HQ in Toronto on plays, and it really doesn’t take that much time off the game. It’s pretty quick and I haven’t seen anything as radically dead wrong as this call.
It’s nto the replays that make the games so long.
Lots of PR and a tickets for their new stadium are at stake. The Rams had to win.
Yeah, that’s the main reason I watch. Favorite team is whoever faces the Hatriots.
No wine, no Brie! Lol! Real people, even a few right wingers!
More people in LA care about Cruz Azul or Club America than the Rams.
He’s an arrogant jock whiny puss and a bastard sire. I know that look in the eyes, the slits for eyes. He’s a jackass. He may be a great player, but that’s all.
Belicheat was nothing before Brady. He’ll conveniently be retirement age and out of here when Brady wants to leave.
I am neither a Rams or Saints fan and I think it was a Pass Interference.
Now, whether it would have ultimately affected the outcome of the game is debatable.............
Of course it did. All the Saints had to do was take three snaps to run the clock down and kick the winning FG.
Our local TV channel puts on every Saints game every week, regardless. Some have said the station owner is a friend of the Saints owner, so that’s the ONLY game we get on that channel unless they are on Bye-Week.
Needless to say, I hate the Saints for that reason. But they got screwed..................
I like Brady because the left hates him.
Uh Oh, Trump is in big trouble now, because he only congratulated the Patriots, and not the Rams....
Donald Trump Only Congratulates the Patriots and Tom Brady on Super Bowl Bid
https://www.complex.com/sports/2019/01/donald-trump-congratulates-tom-brady-twitter
The patriots game was poorly officiated. Not only that call, but the refs couldn’t decide what was and wasn’t pass interference, letting one mugging take place, and then calling the next one.
It was so bad that the announcers pointedly said that the Chiefs basically held on every play, and would continue to do so until the referees called it, and the refs were “letting them play”.
Except the next drive by the chiefs, the refs started calling pass interference.
But I’m also not a fan of the review of catches getting over turned because you can’t tell whether the guy’s hand is under the ball or not when they hit the ground.
Both reviews where the announcers said the ball hit the ground, I could argue that it looked like the receiver managed to keep a finger, or a hand, under the ball, but you couldn’t see it because the grass is tall and the hands are hidden by the grass in the low-angle shots.
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