Officials breakdown - Ed Hochuli
8:55 AM Thu, Jan 07, 2010 | Permalink | Yahoo! Buzz
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Yes, it's true, Ed Hochuli's crew will be calling Saturday's wild-card game between the Cowboys and Eagles. Thankfully the doors and roof will be closed so we get to see Ed's guns when he calls some penalties.
And Jerry Jones didn't have kind words for Hochuli after the inadvertent whistle cost San Diego a win against Denver. And Tennessee's Jeff Fisher wasn't happy with him last week when he called what could be considered a dubious holding penalty that wiped out a 62-yard run by Chris Johnson, ending Johnson's chase for the NFL's single-season rushing record.
Last week Hochuli's crew was at the Tennessee-Seattle game. They called 17 penalties and 14 were accepted. Tennessee was flagged nine time for 76 yards, while the Seahawks had 40 yards on five penalties.
Here's the breakdown:
Unnecessary roughness - 1
Defensive pass interference - 1
Neutral zone infraction - 1
Invalid fair catch signal - 1
Blocking after fair catch signal - 1
False start - 2
Intentional grounding - 1
Delay of game - 1
12-men, defense - 1
Offensive holding - 4
Offside - 1
Running into the kicker - 1
Ineligible man downfield, kicking game - 1
Quarter-by-quarter breakdown:
First - 3
Second - 6
Third - 5
Fourth - 3
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