Posted on 09/28/2004 10:57:53 PM PDT by churchillbuff
Washington Redskins coach Joe Gibbs yesterday expressed displeasure with a pair of officiating calls in Washington's 21-18 loss to the Dallas Cowboys on Monday night, and the NFL responded by conceding its crew made two mistakes. A club source said league officials reviewed the two plays in question — a pass interference call on Redskins cornerback Walt Harris in the first quarter, and a no-call on a deep pass to Rod Gardner in the fourth quarter. The league conceded error in both cases.
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So now what?
They also screwed the pooch in the Bears, Vikings game several times, the Vikings got lucky they beat the Bears 2nd team by 5 points, I have no doubt if the Bears had Brian Urlacher, Mike Brown, Charles Tillman and Alfonso Boone in the lineup and not hurt they would have won that game decisively. It also would have been nice if Rex Grossman didn't get hurt his knee toward the end of the game ending his season...
That's funny. I watched the game and thought both calls were right. In both instances, there was contact. To me, the difference was that the 1st (called) pass interference impacted the receiver far more than the 2nd (not called) pass interference.
On any given Sunday, many worse calls are made.
Well , I mean, John Edwards is obviously looking for work and.....
So nothing. Admission of error is all the NFL will or can do in such a situation. It is bad enough during the regular season, but try it in the playoffs. Ouch.
Referees should be younger, more fit, better eyesight: recent retirees from the league might be best...not guys in their 50s who never played and sadly cannot see very well.
The NFL always does this in their review of tapes a few days after the actual game.
The fact remains they can't do anything about it. The refs made a mistake and the game has been played. It's more of a quality control issue for the future than anything else.
I am correct in assuming you went to WCHS?
Watch the MNF game and you can find at least 5 calls which were major and were blown, at least one of which was even reviewed and still not corrected. I don't see hte NFL pleading guilty to the first iffy pass interference call in that game which game the skins the ball on the one. This sounds like a conspiracy to help the hometown team and their spoiled billionaire owner.
Tee shirt at the Reagan airport-
There are only two teams, the Redskins
and any team who beats the Cowboys.
The horse**** calls didn't all go the Cowboys way. Clinton Portis got two no-calls on the same play in the 3rd quarter. One when he trapped a pass but was credited with catching it, and the other when he was allowed to advance the ball for a first down after he was touched on the ground. That kept a late Redskins drive alive and made the score a lot closer than it should have been.
I watched the game and the calls and concluded the ref's weren't going to let the Redskin's win! It's a shame, but Gibb's was the better coach in this matchup even burning up his timeouts. The Boys would not have beaten Gibbs without the bad calls.
Yeah, they blew that game. I wasn't too pleased. But you can't blame the refs. When you have the ball first and goal on the one and you can't punch it in. That's your ballgame. The wasted timeout for an obvious TD was a bad move too.
In Texas, home of the Dallas Cowboys, Bush is going to give Kerry a big can of whoopass, like some of the Roy Williams hits from last night's glorious victory over the hated Redskins -- making 13 wins in the last 14 games against that sorry excuse for an NFL team.
In Washington D.C., home of the Washington Redskins and many other assorted losers, Kerry is going to kill Bush.
Any questions?
I had one:
"I'll root for the Cowboys when they play the Russians"
This was back in the 80s of course.
The second mistake was classic text book pass interference.
The defender never looked back and was playing the receiver. He clearly made contact that obstructed the receiver from catching the ball and the pass was catchable.
It was an obvious infraction and they missed it. Oh well.
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