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Anybody interested in compiling a list of the bad calls from last week's action?
It seems the refs are worse this year than usual. In two weeks of action, the refs have wasted no time in proving that they can affect outcomes.
The Saints are winning so this obviously doesn't hit home very hard, but I think it's still a worthwhile exercise to note how shoddy the officiating has been. It's probably better to do this while we are dispassionate from winning - it won't reek of sour grapes.
I'll start:
1) Ed Hochuli calling the Packer-Bengals game over when there were clearly 2 seconds left on the clock. A false start probably could have been called, making this one irrelevant, but how can you run in and stop the play when the clock clearly said :02? Turrible.
2) The non-holding call on Stinchcomb before the end of the first half on that 29 yard pass to Reggie. Let's be honest. That was a terrible non-call.
3) The Heath Evans fumble call. We had to waste a challenge over a clear mistake by the ref.
4) Tony Gonzales had a catch that was ruled incomplete; he got up and ran into the endzone, but because the refs had ruled it incomplete, after the review the Falcons had the ball at the spot of the catch.
Please post any bad calls you noticed from this week's action. I know I'm missing a few that I noticed on the highlight shows yesterday.
It seems the refs are worse this year than usual. In two weeks of action, the refs have wasted no time in proving that they can affect outcomes.
The Saints are winning so this obviously doesn't hit home very hard, but I think it's still a worthwhile exercise to note how shoddy the officiating has been. It's probably better to do this while we are dispassionate from winning - it won't reek of sour grapes.
I'll start:
1) Ed Hochuli calling the Packer-Bengals game over when there were clearly 2 seconds left on the clock. A false start probably could have been called, making this one irrelevant, but how can you run in and stop the play when the clock clearly said :02? Turrible.
2) The non-holding call on Stinchcomb before the end of the first half on that 29 yard pass to Reggie. Let's be honest. That was a terrible non-call.
3) The Heath Evans fumble call. We had to waste a challenge over a clear mistake by the ref.
4) Tony Gonzales had a catch that was ruled incomplete; he got up and ran into the endzone, but because the refs had ruled it incomplete, after the review the Falcons had the ball at the spot of the catch.
Please post any bad calls you noticed from this week's action. I know I'm missing a few that I noticed on the highlight shows yesterday.