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It's a significant step for Triplett to finally write on this issue. We need more media awareness on this topic. It seems people like Florio, Mike Lombardi, etc. would be eager to pounce on something like this.
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All this is on top of the blatant slap in the face of the reviewable PI year. I can't believe how everyone involved in the league and the media just shrugged off a full season of officials actively killing that rule week after week until it was gone. It was astounding that they made a rule just to ignore it into oblivion and everything just treated that as normal.
This is the first thing I thought of when I read the Triplett piece.Also thanks to Mike and Jeff Duncan for blowing me off when I sent this to them after last season.
{Language warning}Our Second Annual Penalty Shankapalooza Festival – Girod Street End Zone
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If I can have these observations and do the homework, why can't they do it?
Just for the record, the week prior to the Monday night fiasco, 3 games were postponed due to high numbers of Covid positive cases. All 3 were delayed 2 days. One was a Saturday game delayed to Monday night and two were Sunday games delayed until Tuesday night. The Saints had more Covid cases than any of the teams the week prior, yet the NFL refused to postpone.I've said it for a number of years now how the league has it in for CSP. This just provides more evidence to suggest there is this vendetta against CSP by the league front office. Bountygate is probably a big part of it. This vandetta was not noticed during the years of 2014-2016 as the Saints were not really good during those seasons. But it began to surface in 2018 and especially in that NFCCG no call. Then when CSP pushed IR of PI calls, that really irritated the powers that be in the league office and the vendetta was elevated again.
In 2019 season, you can go back and look at stretches of games where the penalties were so lopsided it was obvious. If I recall in one game against the Panthers that season, the Panthers were not called for a single offensive holding call against a DL that was in the top 5 in sacks. In fact, I think the Panthers had only 3 false start penalties for 15 yards. Also in that game, if you recall, they reversed a non-PI call to PI giving the Panthers a first and goal with the scored tied. And I think that was one of only two instances where they reversed the PI call under IR across the entire league. Again, sticking it to CSP. The Saints ended up winning that game as the Panthers missed the FG, mainly due to Davenport leaping over the center and causing the kicker to hook the kick for fear of it getting blocked. They then tried to call a penalty on that play but they realized I think at that point, that it would be too obvious and decided to pick the flag up. Crazy.
Then this year, forcing the team to play on MNF with so many players out with Covid, while in other instances of similar circumstances, they delayed games one or even two days so the team hit hard with infections could get some players back and field a team. That game ends up being the difference in making and missing the playoffs.
Expect this treatment to continue as long as CSP is coach, or until Goodell is gone.
Was Pierre but I agree with the sentiment.No, but I want to say Duece in a SF playoff game where he was knocked out because of a shot to the head and no penalty was called.
The Jerry Rice TD where he dropped the ball at the 1 yard line and was still called a TD. That was before they started instant replay.
Danny Wuerrful helmet 180 on his head. I don't think a penalty was called.
Aaron Brooks facemask where Kyle Turley is penalized
Katrina season a tight end was laying on his back and the defender forced a fumble by taking the ball from him while he was somehow not down.
Do I need to continue?
That was also the game where Reggie should have had a third punt return, he fumbled due to a blatant face maskDon't forget that Vikings game where Reggie returned 2 punts for TD's but we lost because of that Adrian Peterson fumble that wasn't a fumble because "the ball was still near him" or some shirt like that.
That was also the game where Reggie should have had a third punt return, he fumbled due to a blatant face mask
The face mask wasn’t called but the fumble stood
I definitely do. Truly thought I’d die without seeing my team win it all, could not believe we actually did it.Look, this is what makes 2009-10 so special. The breaks just happened to go our way. Despite not getting the same calls we always never got, we punched out 3 future HOFer QBs. It was just a miracle of a year by any sense, and I hate to say it, will likely never happen again. In many regards it was more special that just about any Super Bowl win and I don't think we fully appreciate just how unlikely it was.
Look, this is what makes 2009-10 so special. The breaks just happened to go our way. Despite not getting the same calls we always never got, we punched out 3 future HOFer QBs. It was just a miracle of a year by any sense, and I hate to say it, will likely never happen again. In many regards it was more special that just about any Super Bowl win and I don't think we fully appreciate just how unlikely it was.