The refs in the Pats game sucked for both teams. The Pats were screwed early on with an early whistle and a questionable intentional grounding call. The Browns got screwed late with their intentional grounding and the PI in the endzone. In Goodell's NFL, shit like this will happen. He will never hold his officials accountable. And I pray no other fanbase has to listen to the atrocious team who called the game today. They made Gumbel/Dierdorf seem like the chosen ones in announcing.
Are you able to following along at all? They scored a combined 6 points in the first half against those teams. They can't move the ball at ALL in the first half every SINGLE game. And then magically transform after a five minute half time. This is a team with TWO coaches caught filming signals. Teams change their signals every week during their installation. Thats why in the first half the Pats cant do shit. Bc they can't read the play calls. But then they record everything the first half, and then review what they learn, and now know a ton of the calls. And teams don't have time to have two sets of calls, bc you can't rep it.
You do realize there are no signals any more, right? Defensive calls are sent in by radio now, and have been since 2008.
In the AFC only the KC and CIN defenses have looked SB worthy. But then you have the KC defense slipping recently (not today but against SD and DEN they looked bad) and CIN has Andy Dalton potentially limiting them. I guess throw the Ravens D in there too out of respect, not sure how they're actually performing this year. But then you have the Joe Flacco aspect too.
You do realize that the investigation said that there was no use during the game, right? I won't let facts get in your way, you've already made up your mind.
I thought about that as well but there was a RB in the area , no different than a screen play. In the grand scheme of things it really didn't matter as Cleveland converted the next play for a 1st down but I thought at the time it was a bad call. BTW always wonder why when a QB spikes the ball it isn't grounding?
Does intentional grounding rule mention avoiding a sack/hit maybe? Because spiking it wouldn't be avoiding a sack. EDIT from nfl.com "Intentional grounding will be called when a passer, facing an imminent loss of yardage due to pressure from the defense, throws a forward pass without a realistic chance of completion" http://www.nfl.com/rulebook/intentionalgrounding
I saw the RB, but to be called intentional grounding there could not be a receiver in the area. Assuming they didn't see a receiver in the area AND he didn't throw to the line, it would be IG. Weird play, but like you said, it ended up being a non-factor.
Seriously? Refs stole the Jet and panther games from them. I could imagine the outcry here if the Patriots had BENEFITTED from that lame pushing call, that the Jets got. Earlier in the Pats/Browns game, Gordon clearly fumbled and the refs claimed stopped forward progress. Refs just blow in general. It all evens out and the stats prove it.
Welker down on the field after getting hit in the head. Standing up now, but that might be a concussion.
