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09-11-2012, 10:03 AM #13
Re: Officiating
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09-11-2012, 10:05 AM #14Legendary RSR Poster
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Re: Officiating
I think they were right in upholding the Boldin TD.
Remember, the standard is "irrefutable evidence" to overturn a call on the field. It was close, but I never saw an angle where the ball was touching the ground.
Again, I was at a bar with dozens of people so I certainly could have missed it.
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09-11-2012, 10:09 AM #15
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I kept looking at Boldin's TD. Clearly he lost control of the ball but I havent seen an angle that clearly shows the ball laying on the ground. It almost looks like he trapped it in his lap. The refs made the right call not to overturn that one. Whether it was a catch or not? Only Boldin knows.
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09-11-2012, 10:10 AM #16
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Re: Officiating
My only major issue with the officials in general, was spotting issues with relation to forward progress. That was a league wide problem in week 1. Otherwise, I'm okay with the job they did.
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09-11-2012, 10:19 AM #18Hall Of Fame Poster
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Overall I thought the officiating was adequate. Only two glaring calls stood out. The PI call on Leon Hall against Boldin and Webb's hit on Dalton. Right now the replacement refs are slowing the game a little but that goes away once they start to gel as a unit. Alot of chemistry and communication issues right now.
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09-11-2012, 10:20 AM #19Regular 1st Stringer
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Re: Officiating
You also have to remember that the NFL put their best replacement refs on the Primetime games, so we also had the best of the best replacement refs for our game. Overall for the weekend I thought they did an okay job (they weren't up to the standard of the regular referees), although if the timeout debacle in Arizona had altered the outcome there would have been some serious outrage.
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09-11-2012, 10:23 AM #20
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There were a few bad calls and a few bad spots, both ways.
It was on par with a poorly officiated game with the regular officials. That's nothing to be proud of, but it was not as bad as I'd feared it might be.
The DPI on Hall was a terrible call; so was the personal foul on Webb and the block in the back on Torrey Smith. There were some tricky calls they got right on bang-bang plays, I thought, like the defenseless receiver call on Mays and a couple times when runners just barely stepped out of bounds were examples of things they could have screwed up and didn't.
I also agreed with them both times on the replays. If the angle on tv was the best angle the ref was looking at I think the Boldin call could have gone either way on the field, but once it was called a TD it was properly left alone. And the call on the Ray Lewis fingertip tackle was properly reversed.
It wasn't good, but it wasn't the national nightmare I'd been fearing.Festivus
His definitions and arguments were so clear in his own mind that he was unable to understand how any reasonable person could honestly differ with him.
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09-11-2012, 10:24 AM #21Regular 1st Stringer
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09-11-2012, 10:26 AM #22
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No you're right.
He said the call stands, not the call was confirmed. So there was no evidence to the call on the field.
Overall I think they did a good job, some ticky tack stuff here and there but it did balance out.
I noticed the seem to let go a lot of the illegal contact, which I am happy about.
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09-11-2012, 10:36 AM #24Veteran Poster
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I feel like if we didn't all know that the refs were replacements, we wouldn't really notice that much of a difference. A blown call here or there, a make up call here or there...it's all part of the game.
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