09-18-2016, 06:07 PM
(09-18-2016, 05:30 PM)treee Wrote: The refs did not beat us. Did they make it more difficult for us by not doing their job very well? Sure. But as an NFL football team you have to overcome adversity, even if it happens to be the officials.
The non-holding calls all game were worse than the fumble call imo. We wouldn't have had to be driving down the field to tie the game if our Dline could actually get after Pig Jen without getting tackled by their Oline.
You are wrong. Rules are in place to ensure no one team has an advantage over another. Period.
What you are referring to would be if officiating was inept on both sides which it clearly was not. If that were the case you'd be able to say one team made enough plays to overcome inept calls/or lack of and the other couldn't.
Calls by the officiating crew were clearly one-sided. TDs were awarded when the rules clearly state possession has to be kept all the way to the ground...it was not. Rules state a knee is the same as two feet...ruled otherwise. A ball is not fumbled if the knee is down before the ball is loose...it clearly was.
It's one thing to be bias in real time...like when they ruled the Steelers runner down when that was clearly a fumble, and when Boyd was clearly down, but it's something entirely different when you blow the call on review. This was a statement game from the refs that was telling the NFL you split up my crew and think we were terrible then watch this. They are clearly not going to call things like that against the Steelers in Pittsburgh.
