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I can already see some of that emotion over that horrendous call wearing off...Last night the terribad game changing mo mo sapping call was well in the lead...
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All of the above, but we lost some serious momentum on that absurd penalty. The only thing we had going for us was Taysom’s runs, but that still doesn’t excuse the 4 pick night, which honestly should have been 7. I know people hated on Siemain, but geez, look at our putrid o-line. At least he didn’t throw a high number of picks. We just can’t win with our 3rd string offense.
Quicky, I agree on most of that, but I'm going to have to excuse any interception that happened after Tayson threw after the finger injury.
So I would say the main turning point was Tayson's finger injury, Let's not forget that play where the receiver tipped up that pass near the Dallas endzone that was intercepted by the Dallas CB going out of bounds. But the blindside call in the vid below was another in a long list of inexcusably bad calls that was certainly an important turning point.
The NFL has to fix this problem with poor officiating. Eye in the sky, whatever, but they seem to be oblivious to what is killing their product, and the officiating is a big part of the problems. They should also have full time officials, and take the lead from college with rules as well as officiating, which is much better than the NFL IMO, but it seems to me that the NFL is either too proud, too arrogant, too stupid, or all of the above to do so.
Quicky, I agree on most of that, but I'm going to have to excuse any interception that happened after Tayson threw after the finger injury.
So I would say the main turning point was Tayson's finger injury, Let's not forget that play where the receiver tipped up that pass near the Dallas endzone that was intercepted by the Dallas CB going out of bounds. But the blindside call in the vid below was another in a long list of inexcusably bad calls that was certainly an important turning point.
The NFL has to fix this problem with poor officiating. Eye in the sky, whatever, but they seem to be oblivious to what is killing their product, and the officiating is a big part of the problems. They should also have full time officials, and take the lead from college with rules as well as officiating, which is much better than the NFL IMO, but it seems to me that the NFL is either too proud, too arrogant, too stupid, or all of the above to do so.
He shouldn't have thrown that ball...it was 2nd and 10, the play really wasn't there, he forced the issue when he didn't have to.I'll go off the board for the first interception by Dallas. The Saints were driving into the Red Zone to tie or take the lead. Taysom at that point was 12-20 for about 150 yards, one TD and no picks, even with the hand. The ball clanks off Stills' hands and the DB makes an amazing play for the pick. Dallas drives down and scores to take a 13-7 lead into the half.
There were other key points--the pick 6 in the 4th; the phantom blind-side block call. But that early INT was a key momentum shift, especially since it was very catchable ball...
Payton said during his post game press conference that the throw to Stills was against the coverage the play was designed for. Payton told the reporter coming out of halftime that he wasn't happy about the dropped pass that lead to an interception before the end of the first half and that he was happy about the QB play.He shouldn't have thrown that ball...it was 2nd and 10, the play really wasn't there, he forced the issue when he didn't have to.
Rewind back to week 1, the consensus best throw of the game was the one JW didn't make where he wanted to take the shot, saw it wasn't there and he threw it away...why excuse TH's crap throw while we all know what he should've done.
Yep. Even Buck & Aikman were genuinely livid about that flag, which not only killed our drive, but it led to Dallas scoring on their ensuing possession.Wait… a flag was thrown on that play? Where, why??? It was just a regular play where the block was picked up?
The Saints have an almost insurmountable hill to climb with the myriad of injuries… but if flags are thrown on them for plays like that (where no penalty clearly occurred) then what chance do they have?
I’m glad I didn’t see that happen live… I believe that could’ve been the play to have me write-off the NFL completely and focus exclusively on the college game and the NHL.
The blindside block was the worst, and most pivotal call of the game. Taysom had just completed a pass for a first down on a third down play. So we went from a first down to a punt. Dallas subsequently gets the long TD to go up 10 and the game just unraveled from that point on.The INT at the end of the half. We were in FG range and driving well. Sean gets aggressive and the tipped pass gets picked. Dallas gets a FG going into the half and now what could have been us up 4 or at worse tied, we are down 6 and never really threatened again.
The blindside block was preposterous - but who’s to say we even score on that drive. Still it was egregious and pathetic.