Steeler vs. Colts - Part Deux

[Bucklion]

I think they have to start including PI calls in replay reviews. Basically they allow a coach to challenge a 5 yard completion but not a 60 yard penalty is just stupid. PI calls can change an entire game.

Wow, that wouldbe nice but it would be so hard. How would the ref make the determination? There would have to be a specific set of criteria, like ther would have to be at least one arm wrapped around the receiver prior to the ball getting there, or something. Otherwise, it's still a jusgement call...and if each ref has different jusgement, the whole thing would be chaos. ALso, there are so many cases where guys bump into each other just before the ball gets there...ruling on that would be very difficult to overturn, one way or the other.

 

[Jaxbuck]

My solution is have refs be full time employees and spend the week preparing to do their jobs well. Shocking concept.

NFL players and coaches give everything they have to the game in order to win. Coaches put in literally 100's of hours away from their families, players train year round and take devestating damage to their bodies that will linger well past their playing days. All this incredible hard work and sacrifice so that if they are lucky they can win a SuperBowl.

On the other side of this you have a bunch of fat, middle aged men who seem to all be either insurance salesmen or school administrators moonlighting as refs making decisions that can throw all that hard work and sacrifice out the window in the blink of a blind eye.

It's like working hard to save enough money to finally buy the sports car of your dreams then throwing the keys to your 16 year old kid and telling him to drive fast and take chances. It just doesn't make any sense.

3 of the 4 games had some of the worst officiating I have ever seen this weekend and at least down here(majority of fans are not loyal to any of these teams), its all people are talking about. I wonder if thats the product the NFL is really trying to sell?

 

[sandgk]

Per the AP - Steelers Call Made Incorrectly

So much for the earlier ESPiN article with its wishy washy explanation.

The NFL has come out directly and said the call was wrong.

LINK

NEW YORK The N-F-L says a referee made the wrong call on a crucial play in yesterday's Steelers-Colts game.
The league acknowledged today that referee Pete Morelli made a mistake when he overturned Troy Polamalu's interception of a Peyton Manning pass.After the incorrect reversal, the Colts went on to score a touchdown and a two-point conversion, cutting the Steelers' lead to 21-to-18. That led to a wild finish, and Pittsburgh clinched the win only when the Colts' Mike Vanderjagt missed a 46-yard field-goal attempt.On the play, Polamalu made a diving catch of Manning's pass, tumbled with it in his hands and got up to run. When he did, he fumbled the ball, then recovered. Colts coach Tony Dungy challenged and Morelli ruled Polamalu had not completed the catch.But the N-F-L said today that Polamalu maintained possession long enough after hitting the ground to establish a catch.

 

[buckeyebri]

The two arm's around the waist open field tackle that wasn't called PI, the Troy Polamalu INT that wasn't and the do-over as a body of work was among the worst days I have seen NFL officials have.
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Not to mention the pass interference by Pittsburgh on 3rd down of the Colts opening drive that wasn't called, or the late hit by the Steelers on Manning, or the blatant holding that was going on most of the game by the Steelers O-line.

We can all play the what if the refs didn't suck game about many calls. The refs did suck both ways and Manning and the Colts sucked big time.

 

[iambrutus]

Not to mention the pass interference by Pittsburgh on 3rd down of the Colts opening drive that wasn't called, or the late hit by the Steelers on Manning, or the blatant holding that was going on most of the game by the Steelers O-line.

We can all play the what if the refs didn't suck game about many calls. The refs did suck both ways and Manning and the Colts sucked big time.

that wasn't PI on the 3rd down, McFadden looked back and made a play on the ball.

there was a late hit, i'll give you that

Holding can be called on every play of the damn game, so dont even try saying that it was one sided.