A Pats homer not bothered by the current "rules" for catching a ball.
NO. WAY.
Just curious if Patriots fans are entitled to have an opinion on something.
Let's clear the air on some things. Did the Patriots get some breaks on plays ruled as catches or no catches this year. Yep.
Did the Patriots get some good fortune in plays being overturned by booth review. Yep. (Already said many times over that the replay process has gotten out of hand.)
Did the Patriots have plays reversed that originally benefited the Patriots. Also yep (but somehow those plays never come up in discussions about officiating and NE).
I have also said many times over that my personal biggest pet peeve with the NFL is they don't do anything consistently. Decisions should be universal. But that should mean . . .
There should be a uniform standard for what a catch is or is not in terms of how it is enforced.
There should be a uniform standard to apply to replay reviews.
There should be a uniform standard on how discipline, fines, and suspensions are doled out.
But there should be a uniform standard for team infractions and penalties as well.
If people want to point out that some questionable calls have gone New England's way this year, I am right there with you. But NE gets scrutiny and team penalties that other teams don't. Most times, when other teams skirt the rules they barely even get a warning. Gronk gets called for OPI more than anyone else in the league.
Personally, I don't care what any teams and any players do. Want to juice or take HGH, go ahead. Want to try to tape coaches signals (which seemed to be going on at the time), knock yourself out. Want to play with the ball inflated like a rock or as soft as a sponge . . . also don't care. want to re-position your linemen, by all means.
All I care is about what happens on the field. I don't care about the rules on whether Aaron Rodgers is or not allowed to be placed on IR again. I don't care if a player gets popped for PED's. I REALLY don't care about guys and their off field brawling, drunk driving, home life issues. All I care about is the game on the field on game day.
That being said, don't call one play a catch, another play an incompletion, and a similar play a fumble. Don't suspend Brady and take away a draft pick for screwing with the footballs but show other teams warming them up on the sideline and do nothing. Don't give one player a fine but another player a suspension for a similar hit on a defenseless player. Don't suspend a kicker a game for domestic violence but a RB 6 games. Unless you are a different RB and there is video and then that's way worse. I think people will get the point.