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Originally Posted by Cowboy89
I think there are other things going on too. Watch an entire weekly slate of CFL games and you'll notice that there are a few recievers that take dives to try and get a PI call when a DB is covering them agressively.
The three worst so far this year are Geroy Simon, Jermaine Copeland and Chris Getzlaf. With Simon and Copeland I notice that the second they figure they can't catch a poorly thrown pass (That is also sufficiently away from the defender too) they flat out Daniel and Henrik Sedin dive like they were interfered with. Getzlaf at least does everything in his power to get the ball, but then flops around on the ground excessively and protests the refs after a missed catch (Last weeks Hamilton game he was an embarassment for this, the refs seemed to catch on and even when he was legitimately interfered with a couple of times later in the game they didn't call it).
As for the Stamps, it's no secret they like to play agressive man to man coverage with their DBs and as a result will have more legitimate PI calls. But I also have noticed other teams taking dives after they get a couple of legitimate PI calls making the problem worse.
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Terrence Edwards out of Winnipeg is probably the king of trying to get PI calls. if the balls out of reach he'll lean into the cover guy and then fall, then lay on the turf screaming and making the flag motion.
I was watching the Rider game yesterday and I almost puked on one play when an Al's receiver turned to make a play on the ball and a Rider defensive back plowed right into him with his hands in front of the Al receivers face without looking at the ball, and Suitor spent five minutes in a tearful voice explaining that the refs made a good call in not throwing the flag.