NFL refs need to crack a physics book

[CGI_Ram]

This is the culture of the modern NFL game. Does anyone care or realize how far it's fallen in the last 10-15 years? Idk.

15-20yrs ago... Would have been early 2000's... I was working with some German SAP Consultants and they worked many many days in a row with us... So we became friends in a way.

Anyway... I was trying to get them into American Football and all they kept saying was "there are so many commercials and game stoppages".

They would go nuts now.

 

[Mojo Ram]

They would go nuts now.

Geezus right? I do like that they decided to go split screen on a few of the 30 second commercial breaks, but i thought that was supposed to allow for less breaks overall during the course of a game. It sure doesn't feel that way.

 

[jrry32]

It wasn't that the individual calls were the worst of all time. It was that every single bad significant call went the Steelers' way.

 

[Selassie I]

One thing is for sure...

After that hose job the zebras put on us yesterday, all is right in the bad call juju world for us. That debauchery from the refs yesterday evens out that call from the NFC Championship game that many still cry about.

Wow... we more than paid for it yesterday... we're fucking due for some make-up calls from the football juju gods after that shit.

 

[OregonRamsFan]

The officiating yesterday was fucking horrific! You know what though? Maybe I'm crazy, or paranoid, but it sure seems like the refs have had a hard on for us all year. Payback because we made them look bad in the NFCCG???

The Rams had nothing to do with that no call. It was on the refs.

 

[LARams_1963]

The Rams had nothing to do with that no call. It was on the refs.

Agreed! That doesn't mean they don't think about us when they think about the Non Call....

 

[nighttrain]

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how the fuck can anyone look at that and think it's a fumble? sure the refs in real time make mistakes but the fucks in the booth? the mind boggles.

vegas bought the nfl a long time ago but now they're not even trying to hide it.

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this is the play where i quit watchin, just a ridiculous bad call
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[lordbannon]

I understand the *rule* on the fumble. The concept of the ball being in control when the arm starts moving forward is crystal clear. It is physically possible to be a fumble and for the ball to fly 10 yards forward. Usually this involves the QB losing the ball, but being able to "push" it while it is out of his hand. You'll see air between the ball and the hand at the back end of the throwing motion in these cases.

I understand not blowing a whistle and letting the play finish on the off chance that the ref saw it wrong. The premise is that the automatic replay will catch the mistake.

This is not one of those cases. Nowhere do you see the ball being out of Goffs hand before his arm starts moving forward. His hand is clearly still around the football when the throwing motion starts. The refs botched it. The review team botched it. The TV announcers (once I got home and rewatched it) botched it. Plays like this change games. And they spent no time looking at it. On a turnover for a score that the rules say we can't challenge because the booth "automatically" does so.

That said, if we don't shoot ourselves in the foot repeatedly......

 

[Karate61]

Obviously this E=MC2 Einstein thing is a crock of shit!

 

[Flint]

The Steelers scored 17 points. The fact is that 14 of the 17 points came only due to blown calls. That was not a fumble. And Washington's knee hit before the toe.

But even if we say the Washington play was too close to call, they should have never been in that position to start. Rudolph threw an interception. It was a dead fucking duck after he got hit. The refs flagged Ramsey for pass interference 15 yards away from where the ball was caught. A ball has to be catchable for that WR to be DPI. Johnson was nowhere near the ball and running in the wrong direction.

It was clear that the refs were intentionally calling a lopsided game. Nothing made that more clear than Reynolds getting the most blatant pass interference of the night on 4th down without the refs calling it. They called ticky tack bullshit multiple times on Ramsey, and then they let that shit go because "it's 4th down." Fuck the NFL. Fuck this bullshit. If there's anything that will drive me to quit watching this sport, it's the officiating.

I was yelling at my tv like everyone else, but I’m a biased ram fan. It was very close but in this case you can go frame by frame because you can see the knee and the toe at the same time. Well that didn’t really happen it was slowed way down but I thought there should’ve been a shot that showed the knee down and the toe not or vice versa. I may be a crazy ram fan but if it’s staring me in the face I’ll accept it, like the Rudolf incomplete pass. He started his forward motion and changed his mind, incomplete.

I’m surprised there wasn’t more talk about the Goff fumble, that’s another one I thought was pretty clear. The arm was going forward, the ball went forward, incomplete.
I asked my buddy, who’s a steeler fan, what the difference between the Reynolds non interference and the other flags that had been thrown for pi and he had no answer. That being said Reynolds has to make sure a flag gets thrown there, the db has no idea where the ball is, he needs to play through the db or try to high point the ball. Of course all this stuff is easy in hindsight but isn’t this supposed to be Reynolds niche? Tall guy, large catch radius, he’s been in this position several times without success.
There are plenty of other needs on this team right now but do we need to start looking at receiver? Who knows what Cooks long term situation is and there doesn’t seem to be a good option in these short yardage situations.