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09-16-2012, 06:49 PM #157
Re: Officiating (Merged Threads)
I thought the refs were quite on par with the regular refs, if you were to refer to the Ravens/Steelers games of 2009/2010.
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09-16-2012, 06:52 PM #158
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09-16-2012, 07:00 PM #159Veteran Poster
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The biggest ref mistake in the Detroit game, and it started the whole Ravens-Gone-Wild behavior, was the clearly-backwards pass (lateral) that we picked up that Carey ruled an incomplete pass (was Harrington at QB if I recall). That started it and was, thusfar, worse than any call I have seen made by the replacements. Then once we started acting the fool and Carey clearly was pissed, he manufactured a couple penalties on us when the Lions had the ball on the 1 yard line; we stuffed them like 6 times but Carey kept giving them new sets of dowsn until they finally punched it in. At that point it was bedlam.
As for refs, how about the fabricated "holding" on Torrey that negated Rice's 70+ yard TD run on the first play of the game against Pittsburgh last year? The one where Torrey's arms were straight ahead (not outside the defender) and the block/"hold" wasn't even a factor in the play. Again, that is an example of a worse call having a greater impact on the game than anything I have seen yet this year.
People are overstating the quality of the old refs and the ineptitude of the current refs. The old ones were this bad, even if they seemed/were less clueless about what they were doing.
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09-16-2012, 07:03 PM #160
Joe doesn't appear to be happy. Fine is incoming I'm sure.
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09-16-2012, 07:21 PM #162Veteran Poster
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The issue has already been on the airwaves, and it is simply the players feeling they have an extra excuse to complain about the refs. The fans are the same way. It is open season on whining about the refs, all because the refs are new. These refs no more affected the outcome than any other set of old refs, no matter how many times people insinuate otherwise. It is a matter of selective memory for the most part. The OPI was a big BS/borderline call; the old refs made big BS/borderline calls all the time, and I would argue they made more of them on average.
We had the ball with 2 minutes left, down by 1 point and a kicker that is good from like 60 yards. Publicly whining about the refs is nonsense, imo.
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09-16-2012, 07:23 PM #163Legendary RSR Poster
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09-16-2012, 07:42 PM #164Legendary RSR Poster
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They just showed the reply on Football Night in America ....
Jones definitely pushed off with his left hand. Hate to say it, but that was a good call as well.
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09-16-2012, 07:44 PM #165Regular 1st Stringer
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The officiating has made the game unwatchable for me. I know they didn't cost the Ravens the game, but they made the pain last 20 minutes longer by having to correct simple shit over and over and over again.
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09-16-2012, 07:45 PM #166Veteran Poster
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Damn. I missed the replay/discussion. I want to see exactly what happened because it is obvious the ref saw something, even if he saw more than what was there (it isn't like the ref was going out of his way to hurt the Ravens).
My issue isn't whether the call was justified or bad, my issue is whether there was something there that the old refs would have called. And from your description, it sounds like there was.
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09-16-2012, 07:48 PM #167Legendary RSR Poster
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