Originally Posted by You Need a Thneed
Was out, and just watched my recorded game, after listening to the end on the radio.
So, in the last minute of regulation we have:
- a roughing the passer penalty in which the QB isn’t even close to stumbling, nor is he hit in the head.
- a roughing the passer penalty in which no flag was thrown on the field. Called down from the command centre?
- a third and goal from the 1, in which no ref and no camera could POSSIBLY have seen where the ball was, until LONG after the play, no TD call was made until LONG after the play, and apparently was only based on where the ball was 30 seconds after the play was over. Based on the one replay shown from the far side of the field, the likelihood that the ball got in before he was down looks to be 1% at most. This simply CANNOT be called a TD, there is literally ZERO evidence to anyone on the field that the ball crossed the line during play. Calling this a TD is... well, I don’t know what. You can’t hear a whistle, but based on how players are starting to get off the pile, and there doesn’t appear to be any possible way the ball could have been in at that point... moreso, plays like this should never be called by the refs on the field, because they have no clue where the ball is. The only possible way this should be able to be called a touchdown is if the command centre sees something that gives good evidence of the ball being in. It can’t fall to having a call on the field not being able to be overturned because there never could be conclusive evidence on such a play.
- a roughing the passer call where Adams clearly embellished by diving backwards after what was clearly not RTP ( Despite where the TSN guys were saying). This play would have left the Als in 3rd and long, kicking a missable FG. Instead, they get a first down and go on to score a TD a couple of plays later.
- pretty rough tackle of Arbuckle by the Als on the sack. Way more force than necessary. Based on the standard set, this has to be called.
- Rogers’ toe definitely touching blades of grass in bounds before his other foot came down out of bounds. The light touch on the ground there appeared to be forfeited by the harder touching of the same foot (that caused the rubber to jump) a fraction of a second later, that occurred after the other foot came down out of bounds. This play probably should be a TD, but I don’t know if I could blame the refs here, as that call is easy to miss in real time, and basically impossible to call definitive enough on the replay.
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