Saints: 21 penalties for 244 yards in eight quarters (2 Viewers)

[Pa.Saint]

seeing the south champ jerseys,"the south is not enough", the south is all we'll be seeing if the penalties and dropped passes aren't fixed. I am grateful for the win but I would like to see a blowout

 

[guidomerkinsrules]

Apple caught a bad case of the Crawleys last night - don’t know what’s up with that

Put me in the camp of getting rid of the hands to the face penalty- I was watching the early games yesterday and seeing this is one of those ‘could be called on every play’ penalties

@Goatman Saint who the **** is Montana the black?

 

[Pkessling]

Both PI calls were legit. Both passes were terrible. One was thrown out of bounds and the other was under thrown by 5 yards. Our DBs never look back. The underthrown ball should have been a pick, instead 30+ yard penalty and 1st down.

 

[SoggyBottomBoy]

Yikes. This has to be addressed - and the answer isn’t just “the refs!”

Vs. CAR: 12 / 123
@ ATL: 9 / 121

Duly noted and a cause for concern. Another concern is how miraculously clean our opponents were:
Vs. CAR 3 / 25
@ ATL 4 /18
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[BoNcHiE]

I had an issue with that first DPI because the ball was clearly uncatchable. It was also clear that Ridley was going to end up out of bounds even before Apple managed to put hands on him.

 

[Mojomajik9]

It’s really a testament to how great the defensive line played last night to overcome so many sloppy penalties in the secondary. I kinda want to chalk it up to it being a short week but these issues have been plaguing the team off and on all season. At least they have ten days to work on it before they play the Niners

 

[Goatman Saint]

Apple caught a bad case of the Crawleys last night - don’t know what’s up with that

Put me in the camp of getting rid of the hands to the face penalty- I was watching the early games yesterday and seeing this is one of those ‘could be called on every play’ penalties

@Goatman Saint who the **** is Montana the black?

I have no idea what autocorrect did there...

 

[SoggyBottomBoy]

I had an issue with that first DPI because the ball was clearly uncatchable. It was also clear that Ridley was going to end up out of bounds even before Apple managed to put hands on him.

I agree, it's just that the optics were so bad it had to be called.

 

[MJ in Calif]

This team is playing very undisciplined right now. IDK but I just do not feel good about the last two games. The penalties last night were not the officials. The DPI calls were legit. And the onsides kick recovery team is the NFL version of the keystone cops. And the offense just seems totally out of sync. Dropped passes, on the IG play, Kamara broke outside when he should have broke it back to the middle where the blitz came from. He does that and its a huge play. You can see Brees was PO'd about that. Defense front is carrying this team right now.

I hope they get it fixed because they have too or there will be a very quick exit in the postseason.

 

[SaintsFanInLA]

The two are not mutually exclusive. You can have penalties AND bad officiating. I don't get why people only see one option as the answer.

 

[Domeination]

The block in the back was a legit call last night. Watch the replay, it was sloppy technique on a block which had no bearing on that play. Blocks in The black are stupid undisciplined penalties. Special teams has become a stupid undisciplined unit. But I think Payton had enough of that last night. He was beyond pissed at that last onsides kick.

Also that intentional grounding was absolutely correct also. Brees was in the box. The ball landed between the lines with no one in the world around it. Notice how Brees didn’t even try to argue it. He couldn’t. It was a dumb play.

I never said the calls were not technically correct. My point is that these calls only go against us. You're telling me the other team is never doing the same thing? I've seen a number of intentional groundings by the opposing QB in our games not called this season. I've seen the other team doing hands to the face not called. I've seen questionable blocks by the other team not called. Why do the refs always spot these infractions when we do it, but not when the other team does it? What's going on?

 

[UFCSaint]

The PI penalties yesterday were legitimate, I think. Not sure about all of the others as some the block in the back ones seemed questionable.

The only one I questioned was the block in the back on the long kick return. Seems like we can't ever return a kick without a penalty.

 

[insidejob]

Duly noted and a cause for concern. Another concern is how miraculously clean our opponents were:
Vs. CAR 3 / 25
@ ATL 4 /18
?

This is what's so maddening to me. How in the world could we sack Ryan nine times and their line not be flagged for holding once? Especially on the runs he made.

Does every team we play play their cleanest game of the season against us?

 

[insidejob]

I had an issue with that first DPI because the ball was clearly uncatchable. It was also clear that Ridley was going to end up out of bounds even before Apple managed to put hands on him.

I totally agree but Apple was just stupid for even putting his hands on him in that obvious of a situation. And it coming on the heels of all the scrapping with Lattimore and whoever that turd receiver was, they had to call it.

 

[Jcsaints9]

Did anyone notice the demario Davis hands to the face , it sure looked like the falcons player had hands do the face as well.