So the shitheads running the NFL

[slag]

react to a once in a blue moon failure to call an obvious defensive pass interference in a playoff game with what has become a significantly more controversial instant replay of pass interference ... compounded with an apparent mandate to over-call OPI.

Nice move

[art vandelay]

I find it amusing that the coaches still don’t understand the rule. The only non-call they will ever overturn is a complete tackle before the ball arrives.

[brotherharv]

I find it amusing that the coaches still don’t understand the rule. The only non-call they will ever overturn is a complete tackle before the ball arrives.

It would’ve been epic had they overturned the one on Jeffery.

[JB]

Yeah despite the nice win...

the shit show the NFL throws out week to week with officials is making it very hard to watch

[Bardy]

Not to mention that it appears that offensive holding has disappeared from the list of available penalties to call.

[wynnron123]

There is a flag thrown every 6 seconds

[IronEagle]

Not to mention that it appears that offensive holding has disappeared from the list of available penalties to call.

I'd love to be a fly on the wall when they give the officials guidance on how to call things.

[brotherharv]

Not to mention that it appears that offensive holding has disappeared from the list of available penalties to call.

Tom Terrific pitched a hissy fit at halftime of Titans Jags last week about all the holding calls. He turned off the game, coincidence??

[The Duck]

react to a once in a blue moon failure to call an obvious defensive pass interference in a playoff game with what has become a significantly more controversial instant replay of pass interference ... compounded with an apparent mandate to over-call OPI.

Nice move

At this rate, with the way they're calling these challenges, coaches aren't even going to bother throwing the flag soon.

Maybe they realize they made a horrible rule and that's the point. Make the burden of proof so ridiculous, and the possibility of a reversal so slim, that it discourages the challenge altogether.

[art vandelay]

I hope that's what happens. I hate the rule. And with the exception of the non-call on Maddox which was egregious, coaches just challenge calls they don't like. The challenge of the Jeffery non-call stood no chance.

IMO the helmet-to-helmet contact was the worst part of the no-call in the Saints Rams game. This may not be a popular opinion but I think they should have a crew upstairs reviewing dangerous plays. Take the inexplicable non-call of the facemask on Sanders last week.

[The Duck]

Without going through the entire game-stopping, under-the-hood crap, there should be some mechanism for an instant booth reversal of the egregious misses. Doesn't seem like it would be that difficult to do.