01-16-2022, 03:35 PM
By next week pretty much no one will care about the whistle play. The national media is playing it up because they have nothing else to talk about with how much of a blowout the Bills game was.
If you look at most of the chatter about the play the vast majority of people (including Raiders fans) don't think the play was a big deal or that the whistle changed how the play would have gone. Obviously the refs made the wrong call (twice) but most realize TD should and would have happened without the refs messing it up. Plus it was really early in the game compared to something like the Saints missed PI or other terrible ref mess ups.
If you go to the Raiders forum and look at their post game chat hardly anyone is bringing up the messed up TD and addressing the 5-10 other areas that lead to their loss.
If you look at most of the chatter about the play the vast majority of people (including Raiders fans) don't think the play was a big deal or that the whistle changed how the play would have gone. Obviously the refs made the wrong call (twice) but most realize TD should and would have happened without the refs messing it up. Plus it was really early in the game compared to something like the Saints missed PI or other terrible ref mess ups.
If you go to the Raiders forum and look at their post game chat hardly anyone is bringing up the messed up TD and addressing the 5-10 other areas that lead to their loss.