Mike Carey Sunday
Y'all still like the guy?
Yeah, I still like him as a ref. I think on average he does a decent job. Today's game won't make his highlight reels but I also think there were a lot of penalties both ways called correctly. I can't remember looking at a replay in which a penalty was called saying to myself "Well, that's just awful call!".
Like a baseball ump's whose strike zone is small, it was apparent that this officiating team was going to call everything. Neither team adjusted to that very well.
... but the call that Mike Carey called overturning Graham's touchdown was absolutely ridiculous.
That's just it. He didn't overturn the call. The call on the field was an incomplete pass. The problem was that he
didn't overturn the call.
Personally, I thought it was a TD but it wasn't the worse non-overturned challenge I've seen.
The penalties that really bother me are the ones which happen behind the play, once the ball has passed the guilty player(Bushrod was guilty of this at least once today).
We won, regardless. If I'm Sean Payton, I'd take advantage of this and use it as motivation to clean up some things going into the home stretch.