Officiating Very Suspect

[coult44]

There were so many outlandishly bad calls today--in different games. It's really bad, folks.

I was just watching for love of the game...no bets on games...I don't do fantasy so I'm not talking about my team or my guys.

-Cam really is taking some crazy hits with no calls
-Arizona had repeated phantom penalties
-Green Bay game had strange booth review overturn

I don't like what I'm smelling.

The refs forgot what a pick play was in the Hawk-Saints game. Pete Carol was going as crazy as I've ever seen him.

 

[Philmonroe]

And we're getting Boger and his flag happy crew tonight!

You called it. Its been some janky calls both ways tonight.

 

[Doomsday]

The officials were awful for both teams. Some really bad calls, these guys think the game is about them, instead of the players.

 

[percyhoward]

The play on the sideline that was called a catch, and which led to a FG for the Eagles just before the half, was clearly not a catch. Obviously, no honest, sighted person could have looked at that and concluded the receiver had two feet down in bounds with possession of the ball.

 

[cowboyfan4life2]

Boger stinks, his crew throws way too many flags.

 

[OriginalNameGuy]

I felt like there was a flag called on all of our punt return opportunities. This crew was calling everything it felt like but I did appreciate no unsportsmanlike, roughing or taunting calls. Unless I missed it I didn't see that type of penalty called on either team. They let the teams be physical and expressive.

 

[CaptainCreed]

The play on the sideline that was called a catch, and which led to a FG for the Eagles just before the half, was clearly not a catch. Obviously, no honest, sighted person could have looked at that and concluded the receiver had two feet down in bounds with possession of the ball.

Clear bobble, no review. I also did not like this at all.

 

[links18]

I felt like there was a flag called on all of our punt return opportunities. This crew was calling everything it felt like but I did appreciate no unsportsmanlike, roughing or taunting calls. Unless I missed it I didn't see that type of penalty called on either team. They let the teams be physical and expressive.

You missed the call against Hitchens?

 

[LandryFan]

There were so many outlandishly bad calls today--in different games. It's really bad, folks.

I was just watching for love of the game...no bets on games...I don't do fantasy so I'm not talking about my team or my guys.

-Cam really is taking some crazy hits with no calls
-Arizona had repeated phantom penalties
-Green Bay game had strange booth review overturn

I don't like what I'm smelling.

You smell Dean Blandino...

 

[OriginalNameGuy]

You missed the call against Hitchens?

yeah as I said there were so many flags I was bound to forget something haha.

 

[T-RO]

The scary thing...the stinky thing is seeing so many blunders during review.

And Al Michaels said it pretty straight at one point tonight,
"You can call a holding penalty on any play--IF YOU WANT TO."

Sure seems in today's NFL....there is a willfulness to see what they want to see and call what they want to call...irrespective of facts.

I don't think the league was trying to engineer a win or loss for Cowboys or Eagles tonight, but if one didn't know better you'd sure get the impression they wanted to tweak fantasy results.

Since the league has dominant ownership of FanDuel and DraftKings...this is skanky at best.

 

[AmishCowboy]

Worse Crew in NFL

 

[Everson24]

The ratings are down and obviously the NFL has given the order to the Blandino cartel to keep the games close. Think about it, we had 3 OT games just today and many of the other games came down to the final snaps of regulation.

After all the experts said that the Eagles would not be able to hang with us and many were predicting blowouts for Dallas, The NFL knew they had to keep the Eagles in the game as long as they could so fans didn't turn the TV over to the World Series. Our special teams and the refs accomplished their goal.

 

[Everson24]

The scary thing...the stinky thing is seeing so many blunders during review.

And Al Michaels said it pretty straight at one point tonight,
"You can call a holding penalty on any play--IF YOU WANT TO."

Sure seems in today's NFL....there is a willfulness to see what they want to see and call what they want to call...irrespective of facts.

I don't think the league was trying to engineer a win or loss for Cowboys or Eagles tonight, but if one didn't know better you'd sure get the impression they wanted to tweak fantasy results.

Since the league has dominant ownership of FanDuel and DraftKings...this is skanky at best.

The ratings actually go up if the Cowboys are losing. Most Cowboys fans will stick it out til the end. Almost all of the other fans hate the Cowboys and love to see us lose. This keeps them enaged in our games if the refs favor the Cowboys' opponent.

 

[T-RO]

You smell Dean Blandino...

Blandino has his job because the league wants him there.

When DraftKings and FanDuel are owned by NFL owners...we have a problem.

The ratings are down and obviously the NFL has given the order to the Blandino cartel to keep the games close. Think about it, we had 3 OT games just today and many of the other games came down to the final snaps of regulation.

After all the experts said that the Eagles would not be able to hang with us and many were predicting blowouts for Dallas, The NFL knew they had to keep the Eagles in the game as long as they could so fans didn't turn the TV over to the World Series. Our special teams and the refs accomplished their goal.

I could definitely see that.

Any one single game doesn't mean anything, and its easy to view your favorite team and its games very emotionally.

It's when you look around the league and start to see such massive crap going on. And poor Cam Newton doesn't have a prayer now. He challenged the league with his comments today. You cannot defy the gods and go unpunished. Cam will be paying more than just fines.

 

[links18]

What is the more likely explanation for horrid officiating? A grand conspiracy to rig games or incompetence, human error, complex rules and organizational inertia to do anything about it? That said, the holding call on Frederick was weak sauce....

 

[Kaiser]

I actually didn't have a problem with this crew, they were calling ticky-tack stuff but they were consistent about it. Consistency is all I ask for in Refs.

 

[T-RO]

What is the more likely explanation for horrid officiating? A grand conspiracy to rig games or incompetence, human error, complex rules and organizational inertia to do anything about it? That said, the holding call on Frederick was weak sauce....

Money and power are always the most likely explanation for why things go down the way they do in the world.

That's not conspiracy...just life.

I didn't have huge problems with this particular game. My comments stem from watching action over the past few years, and a huge number of head-scratchers around the league in today's games.

Here's how it goes down, for anyone interested:
http://www.nytimes.com/2015/10/07/upshot/the-big-winners-in-fantasy-football-and-the-rest-of-us.html

 

[adbutcher]

Raiders broke the record and extended it to like 23 penalties for like 200 yards today.....they still won

We had to beat the refs tonight. Roger is wondering why ratings are down? I'm not watching football to see yellow flags fly. The refs last night was ridiculous.

 

[John813]

Watching the highlights, I don't get how nothing was called on #51 on the Eagles on the last play of the game.