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Originally Posted by Pagal4321
The thing is he is one of the better refs the NFL has....sad to see him get bumped down like this. But on the other hand, it's great to see refs being held accountable for their mistakes.
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Yes, they have a great system in place. I think Hochuli is the second best actually, right behind Mike Carey. Hochuli always goes out of his way to explain the calls he makes. I like that.
He messed up. He obviously thought it was a forward pass initially or he wouldn't have blown the whistle. Once that happened, however, he followed the rulebook to the letter. Now they are talking about eliminating the inadvertant whistle rule....I think that's very dangerous territory.
The purpose of the whistle is to stop play. It's for the safety of the players. A whistle ends the play. If we start having players ignoring whistles people are going to get hurt. On the other side of the coin, if a whistle doesn't necessarily end a play how are they going to ensure that the continuation of the whistled play is equitable? They can't.
I don't think the Chargers can cry too much to be honest. They had 4th down and goal to go and couldn't stop Denver to preserve the win. They they had another chance on the 2 pt conversion to stop them and preserve the win. Couldn't get either done.
I would be bitching if I was a Chargers fan, just like I do when something like this happens to the Broncos or the Flames, but in the end you have to make sure you do enough that something like this is just an afterthought.
For the record, I think the Chargers are good enough to overcome the 0-2 start. They'll be fine. I hate Rivers, but he impressed the hell out of me on Sunday.