- Messages
- 79,281
- Reaction score
- 45,652
A mandatory conference about health and safety and not how they're going to fix the growing ref problem that is costing people games?
Detroit was hosed on that phantom facemask call last night.
But hey let's continue to worry about the part that you're not ever going to take out of the game, the physical risk.
Well until they put flags on these guys and I guess that's probably what they're working toward.
I have to agree with the officiating. Most of the time I don't even recognize what I am watching. These officials change the outcome of pretty much every game and it's past the point of being ridiculous. That facemask call last night was atrocious and it cost the Lions the game, but that's par for the course nowadays.
These safety rules are getting out of hand as well. These men are grown and they know the risks and rewards of playing in the NFL. If they fear that they might have life altering health challenges due to football later on in life then they can can forgo the life altering money and join the rest of us in the real world and get another job.
It really is that simple.
The facemask call wasn't phantom. In real time, it looked like a facemask.
Anyways, the rule book needs to be thrown out and replaced with something similar.
A mandatory conference about health and safety and not how they're going to fix the growing ref problem that is costing people games?
Detroit was hosed on that phantom facemask call last night.
But hey let's continue to worry about the part that you're not ever going to take out of the game, the physical risk.
Well until they put flags on these guys and I guess that's probably what they're working toward.
It was a terrible call as there was no face mask.
I don't care how people try to sugar coat it.
I'm not really one to ponder "what if's" but it really is amazing to see some of the things that happen for some teams and wonder why we can't seem to get some of that magic to go our way.
I don't think I have ever seen the Cowboys involved in a sequence of events at the end of a game like the Packers just had. I mean how lucky can you be.
In real time, how could you tell?
I am no Packer fan, but when I saw it...first thing I thought was face mask. The defenders hand was in that area and Rodgers head turned like it would if he was being yanked by his face mask. When you slow it down, it looks less obvious but I agreed with the call. Only way to fix that call is add more challenges. I'm sick of challenges slowing down games myself.
I may be a lone but I miss the days of real time calls and a simpler rule book.
I bet the Lions fans were saying this exact same thing after our only playoff win last season
Officiating will always be subjective
Fans of every team feel this way
Play better and you give yourself more chances and you overcome mistakes
Run an undisciplined operation like the cowboys do and you will be crying in your drink more often than not
"The fault dear Brutus is not in our stars but in ourselves "
The facemask call wasn't phantom. In real time, it looked like a facemask.
Anyways, the rule book needs to be thrown out and replaced with something similar.