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Patriots get all the callsPats / Dolphins .... Dion Lewis takes the handoff, Suh is being blocked and reaches out with one arm ... grabs Lewis by the facemask, Lewis' head twists around as his body continues forward. Legs finally go out from under him as Suh pulls his face to the turf.
No flag.
Link: http://www.espn.com/video/clip?id=21573548
... and that is why they win so many games.
Maybe, maybe not. But at least there would have been better mechanisms in place for accountability and for training/preparing them properly in the first place.
Not only that, it's orchestrated. The two players he balances off of are holding in a perfect position for him to do it.
I agree 100% that this should have drawn a flag. That said, if you look at this link..Dinsy Ejotuz said:
That is not debatable. He completely used the other players as leverage to get up and over the center. In addition those players were keeping the O-Line down so this could have a clear path. This was completely on purpose and should have been easily called as a penalty. No excuse on this one.
He probably figured last year's Christmas present was enough to last them the rest of the decade.
No one really wanted the rule changed in the first place. Initially the coaches voted it down by a huge majority. They only relented when they tried to come up with a way to prevent the Saints / Rams fiasco from happening again. So they essentially are trying to just avoid reversing a call on the field at all cost unless it is BLATANTLY wrong. As in someone got tackled, mauled, hauled to the ground, or hit in the head and knocked unconscious. That's how they are going to call it. Grabs, holding an arm, riding a player out of the play, getting there a little early . . . none of those are going to be considered. Eventually coaches will stop challenging because they know they won't get the call. People may not like it, but that's reality and where we are at.
The “guy in league offices” is head of officiating Al Riveron. He’s part of the referee’s union.
If you mean add an official to the booth that is allowed to make calls in real time as an added eye in the sky I would agree. There is no reason they should not have someone up there looking at the plays in real time and making obvious missed calls directly involved in the play. This would be easy to do and would limit the need for replay review.
The modern game would be better officiated in the way you describe -- with in-booth officials as integral to crew as the umpire and back judge.
Yes. they need to just admit their refs can't do the job the way the game is played now. The refs are simply refusing to change calls because they feel the new rule is a slap in their face and that its in there because of their incompetence. Thus they are saying ok, we will just refuse to change a call regardless of how obvious it is.
If I were to revamp the replay system I would do the following:
Agreed. Also, just go to commercial for the 30 seconds instead of showing the replay over and over and having a former official give his opinion and then still have it be the opposite opinion of the call. I thought there used to be a time limit for the review and then what the ref is watching just goes black. It seems like they can take as long as they want now.
They have been extremely consistent......98% of replay reviews of PI remain as called on the field.....whether or not there was PI on the play or not.
The worst part about the bad calls last night is that they won't even be in the top ten of bad calls for th week 10 games. One bad call that annoyed was when the Charger TE plowed into the safety and the safety was flagged for PI. Just what could the ref have possibly seen.
Then they shouldn't be refs. Half the job description is being able to take the BS of the NFL head coaches. If they have thin skin, you can't be a ref.
