01-31-2023, 01:02 PM
(01-31-2023, 12:54 PM)Roland Wrote: You just confirmed what I said. The officials called the play based on what they thought and not what they saw according to the rule. You're allowed to throw the ball away to avoid a sack if you throw it in the vicinity of a receiver. If your throwing motion is impacted by contact it doesn't even have to be in the vicinity or direction. It's laughable to see Burrow being mauled by two players and not allow that the trajectory of the throw was impacted. If Majomes made the exact same play he wouldn't be called nine times out of ten.
I never said that officiating cost us the game and I don't believe that. None of those plays was decisive and it's just part of what you have to overcome. We don't have a crystal ball to know what would have happened if those penalties had/hadn't been called. Just a gut feeling of unfairness.
But you're living your life with blinders on if you don't recognize that officiating in the NFL is often impacted by a combination of incompetence (do-over play) and bias created by assumptions and presuppositions. And those factors impact non-preferred teams more often than not.
It may have not been fair .I disagree with the grounding call as well. Home teams always get more calls than the road team way its always been.
