09-18-2023, 08:59 AM
(09-17-2023, 09:45 PM)Nepa Wrote: It was such an egregious call that it's hard to look at the ref standing there, wondering why he threw the flag on the defender. If you don't see the penalty clearly -- and obviously he did not see it clearly -- then don't make a call at all, rather than a blatantly wrong call. I'm glad Tee called out the ref as it is basically supporting the Bengals DB corps.
And NFL? You're a billion-dollar business. Please hire full-time refs rather than people who are middle school administrators and accountants during the week. They need to study all week the tendencies of players they will be observing on Sunday to recognize those trying to get bogus calls or get away with holding, and some of the week to analyze what they did wrong in the games they officiated. Let's not leave this up to people whose main job is elementary school principal, etc.
The phantom calls, and the lack of calls on teams like KC, where their right tackle was lining up so far back he was in a slot receiver position, and was so blatant about it even the announcers were talking about it, give the NFL a really bad look when you factor in that they are now pushing gambling. Now, I'm not claiming yet this is the case, but that case could easily be made.
