Head Hunting

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(09-19-2016, 01:41 PM)Housh Wrote: Yeah its pretty soft to cry about flagging no contact but if I were a ref I would've nipped that in the bud with something verbal. Clearly the only thing that saved AJ from a neck/head shot was him randomly going down before Mitchell hit him. But then again, its pretty clear which team the refs were protecting that game. So am I surprised nothing happened? Nope

So the officials were on "high alert" to make sure that anarchy did not resume from the playoff debacle, and what was the response of the officials?  "Let the boys play".   Smart right?

If Mitchel had connected there would have been a 50/50 chance there would even be a penalty.  If Jones would connect on that type of play he's be out 3 games.  I'll say this Michell, unlike our safeties this year, puts himself in position to make a play and possibly a clean but devastating hit.  But he does not go for the clean hit and our safeties were both MIA Sunday.

If you truly want to control a game you call every nit picking thing against both teams in the first quarter and everything will just settle down.  You've established parameters for both teams.   Every pre-teen girls soccer team knows this.  Now the soccer refs don't necessarily have this figured out.  But they aren't making several hundred thousand dollars a year for a multi billion dollar industry.  And they are reffing girls that are under 5 feet tall and under 80 lbs.

If they had called everything it would have been a different game.  We would have lost a touchdown where Whit had a choke hold on the DL.   But I think we would have made a lot more yardage in the air and possibly a different outcome.  Regardless you have a lot less b----ing from everybody when the game is done.

And that does nothing to deal with the stupidity of the replay of the Boyd "fumble".  Everyone in the stands, the TV audience and the not unbiased announcer booth knew that should have come back.  Blandino is an idiot if nothing else.