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Already tried. The ref flagged me for a personal foul - 15 yards.
ShockingWow a Bengals fanabout officiating? There's a shocker.....
Some team's fans just can't take a loss without blaming an official one way or another. I didn't see the call, but unless the call is on the last play of the game, stop your . I only saw the last minute of the game....boy sure as heck I thought a rookie QB completed a slant pattern to a WR that hasn't done anything for 2 years to win the game. Cincy was coming off a bye week and was playing a team without a win and you want to complain about one penalty costing you the game 
I'm not going to say the Bengals deserved to win, but you're not going to admit that was one of the worst calls ever?Off a bye, against a winless team with a QB playing his 2nd game, and you blame the refs?Didn't even get a stop on fourth down to close it out.
Agreed.I'm not going to say the Bengals deserved to win, but you're not going to admit that was one of the worst calls ever?Off a bye, against a winless team with a QB playing his 2nd game, and you blame the refs?
Terrible call. Still, stop the rookie QB from making a play on 4th and ballgame.I'm not going to say the Bengals deserved to win, but you're not going to admit that was one of the worst calls ever?Off a bye, against a winless team with a QB playing his 2nd game, and you blame the refs?
That was a terrible call, but it was consistent with other calls throughout the game. The refs appeared very eager to protect the QB.Ironically, Gradkowski himself was called for a 15-yard facemask penalty earlier in the game, following an INT. The INT was overturned [ correctly ] upon replay.One horrible call aside, I believe the Bengals lost because they were outplayed and outcoached on defense... AGAIN! Given the tough upcoming schedule, Bengal fans are staring at another .500 [non-playoff ] season. 
Has this been league Wide?It wasn't a huge deal but, in the 41-0 Blowout of the Jets the week before, the jets got called on two roughing the passer calls that were insane..... Leftwich is what 280 lbs? guy gets hit, stays up and THEN gets the ball away and it's called what?? Late Hit?? No... can't be, the hit was well before the release, I'm just not sure anymore.That game could have easily been 34-10....
Seriously though, if my team lost because of calls like that, I'd be pissed, we all would be... I didn't see the Cincy game but, i think I have a pretty good idea by just looking at the Jax tape... You're pretty much not allowded to hit Leftwich.
I didn't even see it and it was one of the worst calls I've ever seen
That's pretty much what I said but, not as concise.
That's ONE point.Another point is that Roughing the Passer calls have been HIGHLY questionable this year and if it's clearly not a late or High hit, i don't know why Refs would want to influence the game so much...The point of that is, next week, if they continue to make that call and YOUR team loses with a call like that involved, the last thing you're going to want to hear is that Your team shouldn't have been in such a close game in the 1st place.It's a BAD call.
AGREED; it was a bad call. And yes; I think that they are being way too carefull and not letting them hit anymore but Tampa started a rookie qb, 3 rookie lineman, 2nd yr rb and the Bengals did not do anything to make them nervous. They never applied enough pressure to make them make mistakes. All I was trying to say is the refs can not take full responsability for this loss. They called a consistant game. Even if it was bad!
justin smith sacked the QB and made him fumble, that's all that happened.
Said this in another thread, will add it here..I notice you didn't complain about the push-off Houshmanzada (or whatever) did on Ronde in the end zone, or the horrible int call on a ball that clearly bounced off the ground, that then led to a personal foul on Gradkowski that couldn't be reversed. No siree. Just that one call on Smith. That changed the game.
Ok I'd be a little upset if I were a Bengals fan but how do you let one of the worst teams in the league stick around for 4 quarters? That should have been a statement/rebound game where the Bengals took claim of the AFC north. They should have won by at least 14. Now---they let Pittsburgh slither into the picture with Baltimore still very much in it. Good job Bungles.
WTF are you talking about? The interception was overturned. Personal fouls aren't reversible.
It was on the game-winning TD drive and turned 2nd-and-18 from the 40 into 1st-and-10 from the 25.The most amazing thing to me is that Smith actually hit the ground before Gradkowski, so the "driving the QB into the ground" line couldn't even be used here.
So we're not allowed to have a discussion about it?
i'm not upset and i'm not blaming the loss on the refs.
Sorry I wasn't referring to you. I was just using your post as a reference to start mine.Peyton Marino said:
Didn't see the game, but I know what you mean - we have to protect the QB, but sometimes this is going a bit too far. It didn't impact the game, really, but that call for roughing the passer on my Jets last week was a pretty awful call.
There wasn't much of a pushoff on the TD to Housh. Housh deserved the TD. Barber did a nice job of defending the play but Housh was bigger and stronger and used amazing footwork to land inbounds.The personal foul on Gradkowski was a result of a bad call on the interception. But the bad call had litttle impact on the game. The Bucs were 4 and 34 after the 15 yard facemask, without the penalty, the Bucs still would have been 4 and 19. Given that the Bucs are the worst in the league at converting 3rd down and long, had a rookie at QB, and were in Buc territory, I am not sure the penalty had any impact whatsoever.Capella said:
