Hoofbite
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I don't know if I have ever seen a year like this year where there just isn't any at ALL.
Penalties are missed left and right. I thought the Cowboys were fortunate that they got away with a couple of most blatant facemasks that I have ever seen when they played the Eagles. Fast forward to the Skins game and Pacman almost has his head torn off by the facemask. No flag. No nothing. The official knew he missed the call too because Pac got right in his face and probably said a few things that would have been flagged in another circumstance.
But I guess instances like that aren't issues of consistency but rather just crappy officiating.
So what do you call it when one player is flagged for doing something and another player isn't? Favoritism? Seriously, I would like to know what the hell is going on.
I've seen players flagged for spinning the ball after a big play but anyone who has watched Santana Moss will tell you outright that spinning the ball never gets flagged.
The whole "going to the ground" rule is about as loosely as enforced as the ball spinning rule.
Check this out:
Braylon Edwards - 2:05 Mark
Edwards scores a TD and falls to the ground in the process. He gets up and then jumps back down to 1 knee where he proceeds to play the air-guitar right in front of an official. And I'm not talking about the official being near the play, the guy is standing right there and you can see walks within touching distance of Edwards but just seems to not even care.
I can handle bad calls as many are made in the heat of the moment. However, I cannot stand to see rules just get enforced only upon certain players. Its pathetic. I'd like to hear Periera explain why Edwards wasn't flagged.
And here is another thing that is really pissing me off. Officials are jumping to conclusions on plays far too often. Flags are being thrown and whistles blown before anything really happens. Taking a look at the flag thrown on Henry the other day for a Horse-Collar (even though it was picked up) and the Cutler play, it seems like these officials are trying to predict what will happen and are throwing flags/blowing whistles based on that.
Is it just me here? Am I overreacting or does the officiating especially suck at this point?
Penalties are missed left and right. I thought the Cowboys were fortunate that they got away with a couple of most blatant facemasks that I have ever seen when they played the Eagles. Fast forward to the Skins game and Pacman almost has his head torn off by the facemask. No flag. No nothing. The official knew he missed the call too because Pac got right in his face and probably said a few things that would have been flagged in another circumstance.
But I guess instances like that aren't issues of consistency but rather just crappy officiating.
So what do you call it when one player is flagged for doing something and another player isn't? Favoritism? Seriously, I would like to know what the hell is going on.
I've seen players flagged for spinning the ball after a big play but anyone who has watched Santana Moss will tell you outright that spinning the ball never gets flagged.
The whole "going to the ground" rule is about as loosely as enforced as the ball spinning rule.
Check this out:
Braylon Edwards - 2:05 Mark
Edwards scores a TD and falls to the ground in the process. He gets up and then jumps back down to 1 knee where he proceeds to play the air-guitar right in front of an official. And I'm not talking about the official being near the play, the guy is standing right there and you can see walks within touching distance of Edwards but just seems to not even care.
I can handle bad calls as many are made in the heat of the moment. However, I cannot stand to see rules just get enforced only upon certain players. Its pathetic. I'd like to hear Periera explain why Edwards wasn't flagged.
And here is another thing that is really pissing me off. Officials are jumping to conclusions on plays far too often. Flags are being thrown and whistles blown before anything really happens. Taking a look at the flag thrown on Henry the other day for a Horse-Collar (even though it was picked up) and the Cutler play, it seems like these officials are trying to predict what will happen and are throwing flags/blowing whistles based on that.
Is it just me here? Am I overreacting or does the officiating especially suck at this point?
