Nope. @LesBaker beat you to it.Maybe I will be the first one to say we should have just kicked the field goal. We get a turnover and pass up a gimme three points to risk getting a first down. I was surprised to see Hekker running for it.
Nope. @LesBaker beat you to it.Maybe I will be the first one to say we should have just kicked the field goal. We get a turnover and pass up a gimme three points to risk getting a first down. I was surprised to see Hekker running for it.
They showed several angles during the game. That is what prompted Pererra (sp?) and the announcers - INCLUDING Joe Buck - to say that it would be overturned. It was clear to all of them including the former Vice President of officiating.
Maybe I will be the first one to say we should have just kicked the field goal. We get a turnover and pass up a gimme three points to risk getting a first down. I was surprised to see Hekker running for it.
I'm still trying to catch up on all the various "vent" threads!IMO it was good by a foot. Replay needs to be done out of the stadium so it eliminates the worry about refs not making each other look bad. They have enough money to have a few guys sitting in a room not watching anything and the send them the camera angles from the games.
It needs to come out of the refs hands.
The first thing that comes to mind when I see a replay that clearly shows the wrong call was made but it doesn't get overturned is that someone is covering for a work buddy and doesn't want to hurt their grading and that person will do the same for them.
Look up LOL.........I mentioned it this morning.
They showed several angles during the game. That is what prompted Pererra (sp?) and the announcers - INCLUDING Joe Buck - to say that it would be overturned. It was clear to
all of them including the former Vice President of officiating.
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First down.
Most significant aspect of that photo, to me, is noting where the ref is located. He just happens to be standing at the worst possible angle from which to make an accurate spot. Heck, he may not have even been able to see the ball, since it was on the other side of Hekker's body. If the ref were standing ten yards further downfield, he would have been able to see that it was a first down.
Watch the video, the ref standing there is the one who makes the spot, and he had a terrible view of the play.
You guys are hilarious. The refs and the NFL are out to get us
no one said they are out to get us. The issue is that there is growing concern and evidence, both actual and circumstantial that the NFL is not a pure contest.
That matters to some, and I'm one of them.
I stopped watching baseball when they excused steroids and I'll stop watching football if they continue with this "narrative steering" which is going on whether anyone wants to acknowledge it or not.
I mean it's that or the refs just happen to be calling calls that just happen to help certain teams at certain times so that it just happens to allow the narratives to continue.
The narrative I'm seeing?
Brees needs to get another Super Bowl before he's done.
If I had to bet on any narrative, it'd be that Brees "deserves" another one.
Watch. Mark this post.
The Super Bowl will be a battle of first Ballot HoFers and the Saints will win a "super exciting shootout!!!" with record scores and everyone having great games as long as you don't play defense.
Oh, and it will also be about the redemption from his "bounty gate" scandal and about how Asshole Face has "reformed"....
This crap is so blatantly in our face that it's obnoxious.
But hey, people enjoy wrestling, too. No shame in that. Let's just not pretend that the final winners aren't part of the NFL's narrative.
no one said they are out to get us. The issue is that there is growing concern and evidence, both actual and circumstantial that the NFL is not a pure contest.
That matters to some, and I'm one of them.
I stopped watching baseball when they excused steroids and I'll stop watching football if they continue with this "narrative steering" which is going on whether anyone wants to acknowledge it or not.
I mean it's that or the refs just happen to be calling calls that just happen to help certain teams at certain times so that it just happens to allow the narratives to continue.
The narrative I'm seeing?
Brees needs to get another Super Bowl before he's done.
If I had to bet on any narrative, it'd be that Brees "deserves" another one.
Watch. Mark this post.
The Super Bowl will be a battle of first Ballot HoFers and the Saints will win a "super exciting shootout!!!" with record scores and everyone having great games as long as you don't play defense.
Oh, and it will also be about the redemption from his "bounty gate" scandal and about how Asshole Face has "reformed"....
This crap is so blatantly in our face that it's obnoxious.
But hey, people enjoy wrestling, too. No shame in that. Let's just not pretend that the final winners aren't part of the NFL's narrative.
I have to admit that I found myself thinking we got away with three late in the game. Make up calls?To me, it was just a bad call. And maybe their super-slo-mo replay showed the exact instance where Hekker's knee first hit the turf and where his arm was at the time, and it didn't match up with the marker. I dunno. But if this was 'rigged' to favor the Saints, then I'll need to know why the refs let our DBs get away with so much pass interference. Because, in my opinion, there was a lot of it.
Maybe I will be the first one to say we should have just kicked the field goal. We get a turnover and pass up a gimme three points to risk getting a first down. I was surprised to see Hekker running for it.