NFL says Wallace should not have been called for DPI

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Before that play, I thought that the refs were already helping the home team/ the team that was down.
I was frustrated at the penalties called.
I was trying to tell myself that they want a closer game.

That call. Wow.
I'm sure that very soon, a corrupt ref (betting??) will be exposed
 
The grey area rules that the NFL purposely created to exploit penalties during every game, from bs holding calls to pass interference allows certain games to be played in a certain way that optimizes viewer's and fan's TV ratings. It's really not much more than what the WWE does to create "excitement". Yeah, it's fake. But who cares as long as your team is in the hunt for the playoffs.
 
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Looking at the play again in this post, I can see how the official from behind felt it was DPI. It's "the flop". Wallace does have a hand on Bryant, but not with any force to move Bryant, however the flopping bending shit makes it look like Wallace's hand is pushing Bryant. Again, this is what I see from the view point of the official behind the play. Obviously, the refs should have discussed it and pulled the flag.
100%. This is how I interpret what happened as well. The key to the whole play is Bryant's right hand tugging onto the shoulder pad. Followed by the 'flop'.

The referee behind the play had an obstructed view and couldn't see the 'pull' from Bryant. So after the 'flop', that ref was tricked into calling a 'push' on Wallace.

The key should have been the other ref (the one in FRONT of the play, who should have seen the Bryant pull). He should have initiated a LONG conference on this one.
 
In real time it is easy to be fooled by a flop. The game moves fast. I am not mad they threw a flag. Easy to get duped there. I am mad they did not huddle and pick it up. Or that nobody buzzed down to have them take another look. If they can do that after the famous Seattle 2 point conversion, why not on this play? Why are we picking the choosing? Especially when the 2 point conversion was hardly obvious. This was.

NFL needs to make intentional flopping a 15 yard penalty with a loss of down, and a fine to follow. That will stomp it out real fast.
 
One thing the Rams need to learn is don’t let one bullshit drive with multiple bullshit penalties decide your game.
One thing the NFL needs to learn is if a ref has definitive, unobstructed view of a penalty that wasn’t called or definitive, unobstructed view of penalty that should not have been called that motherfucker needs to do his fucking job and reverse the call. Fuck that bitch ref that didn’t correct that call. Find a job at Walmart as a greeter.
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In real time it is easy to be fooled by a flop. The game moves fast. I am not mad they threw a flag. Easy to get duped there. I am mad they did not huddle and pick it up. Or that nobody buzzed down to have them take another look.
100% agree with this as well.

IMO this was NOT an obvious play at first glance. Quite honestly I had to watch this play several times in slo-mo before I could figure out what the hell was REALLY going on.

Lots of people correctly pointed out that there WAS indeed contact between Wallace's left hand and Bryant's torso. And given the way Bryant's body "flailed" after that contact, it's easy to understand why the assumption would be that Wallace somehow caused it.

It was only after watching a careful slo-mo of Bryant's "pull and flop" that I could see it was definitely a fake job. Some devious shit.

Refs make some bad mistakes. But on this particular play the main problem was Bryant's skilled acting job. Yes, the refs should have caught it, but it wasn't easy to see in real time.
 
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And all the dipshits online arguing that it was a legit PI can get fucked…respectfully, of course.
Yes, I have seen some of these dipshits. Aggravating. Some STILL think it was DPI. They are objectively wrong. They don't understand ball well enough to figure out a "flop."

I'm glad Belicheat is out of coaching...he'd use this play as a freaking "how to" video for his WR's.
 
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100% agree with this as well.

IMO this was NOT an obvious play at first glance. Quite honestly I had to watch this play several times in slo-mo before I could figure out what the hell was REALLY going on.

Lots of people correctly pointed out that there WAS indeed contact between Wallace's left hand and Bryant's torso. And given the way Bryant's body "flailed" after that contact, it's easy to understand why the assumption would be that Wallace somehow caused it.

It was only after watching a careful slo-mo of Bryant's "pull and flop" that I could see it was definitely a fake job. Some devious shit.

Refs make some bad mistakes. But on this particular play the main problem was Bryant's skilled acting job. Yes, the refs should have caught it, but it wasn't easy to see in real time.
From behind the players maybe it was hard to see if there was any defensive contact but the flop was obvious.
On the other side there was a 0% chance the ref in front of the players didn’t have a clear unobstructed view showing no defensive interference. He was less than 10 yards from them with the best angle anywhere on the field.
 
Bad calls are baked into the equation for league profits. The bottom line is the bottom line. Idiots line up for merch and 500 dollar tickets.
 
I’ve seen probably a dozen media reviews of the play and everyone of them said the Rams got robbed.

So of course the NFL has to admit it.

The league needs to break through the excuses and make every flag challengable. Its a stsrt.
 
The call was so blatant that there is no other explanation other than it was purposeful. Also where the hell was NY on the hotline. We've seen those fucks jump in before in other games. This was a fuckin prime time game and a massively important matchup between two playoff level rosters.

It's a bad enough call that I think the fucker who threw the flag should be fired.