Rams blew games that they had no business losing. Bucs and Steelers games should not have been lost, and that's given that we should have won in Seattle on GZ FG. Rams should easily be 9-3.
I don't blame anyone else, its all on us.
Amen.
Every fan of every team I know can point to 10 times they think the refs screwed them this year.
Officiating has been very bad this year.
Only part of that is on the refs. The more that is loaded into the judgement call basket the worse it’s going to get. Judgement call meaning the roughing calls.
The PI review is a joke.
Reviewing every border line catch under 2 minutes is a joke.
They started calling holding more honestly early in the year. The NFL then decides that could affect the precious offenses so they went back to last years models. Has to be an obvious hold on a pass rusher with a shot of getting to the QB or directly affecting a run. Meaning hold early in a pass rush and you probably won’t get called. If the RB runs behind your block you will get the hold call. Block the same way and he doesn’t run behind you it’s not a hold. This is what kept bitting Edwards on Sunday. He could probably say he blocked that way all day and he’d be right.
According to what’s called Donald was held a lot the first few weeks and hardly at all since then. We all know that’s BS. The NFL changing how they are going to enforce fouls during the year is bizarre.
Anyway, no simple answer.
Cameras at every angle and a league determined of over complicate things has made the refs job impossible.
The roughing call on Oko for example.
It was a clean hit. No helmet to helmet, no leading with the head. But, partly because of Murray’s height, the hit was high. But a high hit not to the head is preferred.
You can’t go at the knee. You can’t hit high, you have to pull up once the ball is thrown, if you go the mid body there is a decent chance you’ll get flagged for lowering your head....or if the QB sees you and lowers his head you may get a helmet to helmet call.
The rule as it is enforced is basically can’t contact the head or down low and can’t hit the QB hard. It’s a joke.
Asking a ref to make a call on a play like Oko’s in real time when they have been (clearly) instructed to anticipate the penalty is impossible.
It’s maddening.
But the BS is equally applied.