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If a steeler or patriot made that special teams play, it isn't flagged. It looked PERFECTLY timed and what a play it COULD have been. I love that he is using his speed to help the team and those kind of plays can be game-changers. I hope they don't try to take away his aggressiveness.
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If the return man won't call for a fair catch, he should be hit. That's, like, the entire point of a fair catch. I thought that was just another slap in the face from this game. The fact that the Bengals won despite having the refs give the Colts countless freebies means we were twice as good as we needed to be to win. That's a good sign.
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And the ref announced that he didn't give the guy time to make a fair catch, when a fair catch wasn't called. Just another, in a long line, of BS calls by the refs this game...... I just wonder if this head office ever makes their displeasure known to the league about some of the officiating.
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Section 1 Opportunity to Catch a Kick
INTERFERENCE
Article 1 During a scrimmage kick that crosses the line of scrimmage, or during a free kick, members of
the kicking team are prohibited from interfering with any receiver making an attempt to catch the airborne
kick, or from obstructing or hindering his path to the airborne kick, and regardless of whether any signal
was given.
Item 1: Contact with Receiver. It is interference if a player of the kicking team contacts the receiver, or
causes a passive player of either team to contact the receiver, before or simultaneous to his touching
the ball.