Man, should be Saints/Chiefs in the SuperBowl. First is all on the refs for blowing that call. Second is all on the Chiefs, or more specifically the dude that lined up in the neutral zone negating a game ending and game winning interception. I bet he feels like crap today. Oh well, I guess life isn't fair so we have Rams/Patriots.
(01-21-2019 09:14 AM)VA49er Wrote: Man, should be Saints/Chiefs in the SuperBowl. First is all on the refs for blowing that call. Second is all on the Chiefs, or more specifically the dude that lined up in the neutral zone negating a game ending and game winning interception. I bet he feels like crap today. Oh well, I guess life isn't fair so we have Rams/Patriots.
I agree about the Chiefs guy that lined up in the neutral zone but there was also a fumble recovered by the Patriots that was negated by a penalty that would have prevented the Chiefs from going up 28-24 and would have given the Patriots the ball at the KC 20 yd line. To me both of the turnovers that were negated by penalties offset.
The KC defense lost the game. They gave up over 500 yards at home.
(01-20-2019 07:58 PM)SVHerd Wrote: The DB clearly played the receiver and not the ball. Could have called targeting. Definitely interference. And i’m not a fan of either team.
I missed the targeting until the NBC commentators pointed it out, so even if the pass interference was missed, no excuse for missing the helmet to helmet contact, this will go down as one of the worst calls in playoff history. Had either penalty been called New Orleans wins.
Helmet-to-helmet targeting? Are you serious? It did look on the replay to be interference, but you must have a very liberal interpretation of helmet-to-helmet.
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Quote:This brutally violent act by the Chiefs’ Chris Jones on Tom Brady drew a roughing the passer penalty. There’s simply no room in the sport for such gruesome violence. Please do not allow small children to watch this video.
If we are going to question the roughing the passer penalty then how about the PI calls that the Chiefs got and not called against them. They mugged the New England receivers on one non-call. Or the clear pick play that wasn't called that went for a Chief's TD. In defense of the official that called the hands to the head call, Brady's head moved to the side on the hit and the defenders elbow went up into the face mask
What a swing of emotions. In the span of seconds, Charvarius Ward (MT alum)went from Hero to just another disappointed Chief DB. His interception (reversed) would have sent KC to the Super Bowl. Now about the officiating, I've watched every Brady Playoff game in his career and they ought to let the "GOAT" wear a skirt cause he gets incredibly special treatment from NFL Officials. And, the Saints got screwed on the No Call against the Rams. Am I gonna miss watching the Super Bowl for the first time ever since 1967? The matchup doesn't interest me as much as it will the NFL heirarchy. They will make more money with this match-up and that is really all that matters to the owners.
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They were letting the players play all game. I'm a big Saints fan, but there were quite a few incidental facemasks that should have been called on the Saints. There were plenty of pass interference calls that should have been made both ways. This was the most obvious, but they established a precedent of letting them play. They tried to give a make up call in OT. It was a correct pass interference call, but based on how they had called the game to that point it shouldn't have been called.
The chiefs patriots game wasn't any better. Lots of blown calls in that one as well. Congrats to the Rams and Pats. It sucks to lose like that, but if you don't want a blown call to decide it, don't let the game get that close.
Quote:Consider Rule 17, Section 2, Article 1: The Commissioner has the sole authority to investigate and take appropriate disciplinary and/or corrective measures if any club action, non-participant interference, or calamity occurs in an NFL game which the Commissioner deems so extraordinarily unfair or outside the accepted tactics encountered in professional football that such action has a major effect on the result of the game.
Even though Rams defensive back Nickell Robey-Coleman admits that he opted to wipe out Saints receiver Tommylee Lewis because Robey-Coleman believed he’d been beaten for a touchdown
And here’s where it gets even juicier. Consider Rule 17, Section 2, Article 3: “The Commissioner’s powers under this Section 2 include . . . the reversal of a game’s result or the rescheduling of a game, either from the beginning or from the point at which the extraordinary act occurred.”
Basically, the Commissioner has the power to turn back time to the spot of the penalty that wasn’t called, put the teams back on the field from that point in the game, give the Saints first and goal at the spot of the foul, put 1:49 on the clock, and let the game proceed, tied at 20, with the Rams having one time out left.
(01-21-2019 02:51 PM)THE NC Herd Fan Wrote: It will never happen, but:
Quote:Consider Rule 17, Section 2, Article 1: The Commissioner has the sole authority to investigate and take appropriate disciplinary and/or corrective measures if any club action, non-participant interference, or calamity occurs in an NFL game which the Commissioner deems so extraordinarily unfair or outside the accepted tactics encountered in professional football that such action has a major effect on the result of the game.
Even though Rams defensive back Nickell Robey-Coleman admits that he opted to wipe out Saints receiver Tommylee Lewis because Robey-Coleman believed he’d been beaten for a touchdown
And here’s where it gets even juicier. Consider Rule 17, Section 2, Article 3: “The Commissioner’s powers under this Section 2 include . . . the reversal of a game’s result or the rescheduling of a game, either from the beginning or from the point at which the extraordinary act occurred.”
Basically, the Commissioner has the power to turn back time to the spot of the penalty that wasn’t called, put the teams back on the field from that point in the game, give the Saints first and goal at the spot of the foul, put 1:49 on the clock, and let the game proceed, tied at 20, with the Rams having one time out left.
Never happen and honestly shouldn't. They just need to find a way to get the calls right the first time. I suspect they may expand the challenge rule to include some limited ability to challenge a missed call or allow a booth challenge to a missed call towards the end of a game. Many people have pointed out, with technology today there is no reason to miss a call like that.
They will need to address the length of games too. I like the idea of keeping the clock running on incompletions in the 1st and 3rd quarter or something like that.
C-USA just hired the referees from the Saints game to a life time contract. They will be working mainly UAB games. The GM Les Snead is from Alabama and played for UAB when we were DIII for one year. I see another title. The MTSU crowd for the C-USA game was louder than the Saints game.
(01-20-2019 07:58 PM)SVHerd Wrote: The DB clearly played the receiver and not the ball. Could have called targeting. Definitely interference. And i’m not a fan of either team.
I missed the targeting until the NBC commentators pointed it out, so even if the pass interference was missed, no excuse for missing the helmet to helmet contact, this will go down as one of the worst calls in playoff history. Had either penalty been called New Orleans wins.
Helmet-to-helmet targeting? Are you serious? It did look on the replay to be interference, but you must have a very liberal interpretation of helmet-to-helmet.
All I know is, if the teams were reversed and the no-call happened to the Saints and if the Patriots lost in OT, I don't think there would be this much backlash.
(01-20-2019 07:58 PM)SVHerd Wrote: The DB clearly played the receiver and not the ball. Could have called targeting. Definitely interference. And i’m not a fan of either team.
I missed the targeting until the NBC commentators pointed it out, so even if the pass interference was missed, no excuse for missing the helmet to helmet contact, this will go down as one of the worst calls in playoff history. Had either penalty been called New Orleans wins.
Helmet-to-helmet targeting? Are you serious? It did look on the replay to be interference, but you must have a very liberal interpretation of helmet-to-helmet.
Bet he gets fined.
And he did.
Adam Schefter
@AdamSchefter
NFL made an unofficial statement on the hit that Rams' CB Nickell Robey-Coleman delivered on Saints' WR Tommylee Lewis.
NFL fined Robey-Coleman the amount of $26,739 for the helmet-to-helmet that was not flagged during the NFC Championship Game, per source.
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(01-25-2019 10:38 AM)MonGNARch Wrote: All I know is, if the teams were reversed and the no-call happened to the Saints and if the Patriots lost in OT, I don't think there would be this much backlash.
The Saints shouldn't have lost in OT either. For anyone not familiar, touching the QBs helmet is roughing the passer in the NFL. This was not called roughing the passer on the Brees OT INT.
This was called roughing the passer in the Patriots game.
In the span of seconds, Charvarius Ward (MT alum)went from Hero to just another disappointed Chief DB. His interception (reversed) would have sent KC to the Super Bowl. 
Now about the officiating, I've watched every Brady Playoff game in his career and they ought to let the "GOAT" wear a skirt cause he gets incredibly special treatment from NFL Officials. And, the Saints got screwed on the No Call against the Rams. Am I gonna miss watching the Super Bowl for the first time ever since 1967? 
The matchup doesn't interest me as much as it will the NFL heirarchy. They will make more money with this match-up and that is really all that matters to the owners.
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