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MisterPittsburgh wrote:
Seemed to me like something shady was up with the ref's.
9:12 on the clock with the Jags holding a 21-20 lead and it is 3rd & 7 and Harrison hits Gerrard just as he throws the ball. Completely clean. The ball is caught and is a 5 yard gain. Would have been 4th & 2 but the penalty gives then a first down and moves them from around their own 20 to the 37 yard line.
4:40 on the clock and the Jags still holding a 21-20 lead. On 3rd & 3 Nate Washington catches a 12 yard pass for a first down which would have put the ball at the Jags 45 yard line....their coach is signalling that it wasn't a catch so Nate hold the ball up. The ref runs in acting like Nate spit in his face and calls an unsportsmanlike moving the ball back to our own 40.
On this drive we go down and end up getting the TD to Ward that to me was apparent he had his feet in but they review it just to be sure. Then they never reset the play clock after the review and there is chaos and we end up taking a penalty which moves our conversion attempt to the 7 yard line. We don't get the conversion.
I was waiting for a couple interference or roughing the passer calls on Jax last posession but nothing was called. That drive where we went ahead though was shady as hell.
Seemed to me like something shady was up with the ref's.
9:12 on the clock with the Jags holding a 21-20 lead and it is 3rd & 7 and Harrison hits Gerrard just as he throws the ball. Completely clean. The ball is caught and is a 5 yard gain. Would have been 4th & 2 but the penalty gives then a first down and moves them from around their own 20 to the 37 yard line.
4:40 on the clock and the Jags still holding a 21-20 lead. On 3rd & 3 Nate Washington catches a 12 yard pass for a first down which would have put the ball at the Jags 45 yard line....their coach is signalling that it wasn't a catch so Nate hold the ball up. The ref runs in acting like Nate spit in his face and calls an unsportsmanlike moving the ball back to our own 40.
On this drive we go down and end up getting the TD to Ward that to me was apparent he had his feet in but they review it just to be sure. Then they never reset the play clock after the review and there is chaos and we end up taking a penalty which moves our conversion attempt to the 7 yard line. We don't get the conversion.
I was waiting for a couple interference or roughing the passer calls on Jax last posession but nothing was called. That drive where we went ahead though was shady as hell.
I think Washington was correct to get flagged but the Jag's coach DEFINITELY said something to him...AND I think the ref went WAY over the top with being flamboyant in making the call...that was disrespectful and unnecessary.
The playclock+Harrison calls are INSANELY bad. I think that the league SHOULD make an inquiry into Winters and his crew and their beef with the Steelers.
I dont think the refs are as much to blame MANY times as much as they are blamed for it, but there are CLEAR examples of refs who should NOT be able to be officials any more, specifically for teams that they have a history of screwing over.
Officiating has gotten worse and worse...there are FAR too few GOOD refs with GOOD intentions than those who really dont seem to give a damn about the teams or the fans who the game is intended for.
I am sorry but that call against Washington the way it was acted out by the ref REALLY rubbed me the wrong way, and even MADDEN said something about which is saying something. That was SO disrespectful.
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