Refs dictate MNF..but whats new?

[Aristo]

Got the call to juice Seattle. Sorry if you had Minnesota..
questionable PI on Minny gives Seattle a scoring opportunity in the 4th..
blocked Minny FG penalty not called..
Minny D just gave out after a stout 3 and a half quarters..but yeah, Cousins does suck ass..

 

[Serbone]

Friends I’ve known for decades, many who do not even wager...

All say they are sick and tired of extreme penalty issues that are blatant, that it is far far more prevalent than ever.

Refs can especially call PI (or not) or offensive holding (or not) at just the right time and get away with murder.

 

[OfficialSono]

Truly pathetic officiating and all they will get is a slap on the wrist. How the fuck do you miss that?

 

[Serbone]

Vikings should have had the ball 1st and 10 on the Seattle 15, down 6-0.

The call changed everything.

 

[bradyisgod]

Honest question. The NFL has a ton of money. Why not just say fuck the integrity of the game and if the call is close someone calls down and they review it as a team of say 3 or 5 and just get it right while the commercial plays? You'd think with how much money the NFL has they would just do that (I know they already do it sometimes - I'm saying they should just always do it on anything close).

To me if you want to keep the integrity of the game you just make sure they get the calls right. Or mostly right.

Maybe I'm missing something here. But with how advanced technology is you would think they could get most of the calls right and if they butcher them they just get called down by their superiors and let them know that they got it wrong and it was overruled by the team overseeing the game on the monitor.

 

[Aristo]

I guess the NFL feels that Seattle is the more popular pick, to advance this year..

 

[exploited17]

I can accept that they missed a call.....or claim they missed a call. But when you throw a flag on a blatant penalty on the FG and then don't call it.....you gotta be shitting me. I didn't even bet the game

 

[SunDodger]

So nice to be on the right side of the fix, for once.

 

[TheEnd]

It doesn't help the ref's cause when the networks have a retired NFL ref in the booth and they agree that the ref's missed the calls. If I'm not mistaken, the NFL ref's are now employed full time by the NFL and no longer members of the Union that covers umpires and side judges. The reason the NFL made this move was to allow the refs to focus full time on the rules and improve the flow of the game. So far it doesn't seem to be working

 

[Serbone]

So nice to be on the right side of the fix, for once.

Old saying at the thoroughbred race track, goes something like:

"if you told everybody and proved that each race was fixed, the horse, the jockey, the whole thing... the same people would show up and try and figure out how it was fixed and bet the same amount of money".

NFL wanted good, nice Russell Wilson, who everybody loves for the playoffs, not bad, horrible Cousins, who everybody hates. I swear late in the college season you see an undefeated team get calls to keep them undefeated so they get a crack at the playoffs... Now this.

 

[JohnnyMags]

How about the ref's call to start the Dallas/Eagles game. First they don't call it a fumble so the ruling is no fumble. Peterson challenges the play and you clearly see a fumble followed by a pile of 3 or four Eagles not a Dallas player there. The challenge result is yes a fumble which means the challenge was right then they say no clear recovery how could it not have been an Eagle recovery? Then despite being right on challenging the fumble the Eagles lose a timeout and a challenge. Eagles getting the ball there on the 20 likely produces at least 3 points in a game that was tied after regulation. How's that for screwing up a call?

 

[TheEnd]

It's a cluster the past couple weeks. Reminds me of the replacement refs in 2012, what a disaster

 

[headquarters]

Is there any organized sport without a ref, judge or umpire?

 

[seer]

minnesota didnt do a damn thing to try and be in the game. had they covered the spread to me it would have been a bad beat for
seahawk backers. min had 2 4th and 1s and it was a coaching disaster. seattle had over 200 yds on the ground. controlled the game on both sides of the ball. sure they woulda had a fg if they flagged wagner. what about the pick minny had b4 the end of the half when russ had brain fart. the final score should have been 28-3 period. vikes were outclassed even despite the calls that went seattle's way

 

[Enfuego]

The refs didn't have anything to do with that mauling the Vikings received in Seattle last night.

 

[bigwang]

The refs didn't have anything to do with that mauling the Vikings received in Seattle last night.

Spot on.

 

[wizard1183]

Old saying at the thoroughbred race track, goes something like:

"if you told everybody and proved that each race was fixed, the horse, the jockey, the whole thing... the same people would show up and try and figure out how it was fixed and bet the same amount of money".

NFL wanted good, nice Russell Wilson, who everybody loves for the playoffs, not bad, horrible Cousins, who everybody hates. I swear late in the college season you see an undefeated team get calls to keep them undefeated so they get a crack at the playoffs... Now this.

NFL stated in court if the games were fixed, ppl would still watch them like nothing was changed. What you said? Is a FACT.

THE NFL is a business and entertainment. Pure and simple. There is no separation of the teams. When you buy a team’s apparel, you’re money went to ALL 32 teams. NOT JUST the team you’re suppprting which means all 32 teams fall under one entity. The NFL....

 

[Cantpickem]

NFL is classified as ENTERTAINMENT. This is the same as wrestling. They can do whatever they want to influence a game. You just have to figure out ahead of time who they are going to screw.

 

[Betallsports]

So nice to be on the right side of the fix, for once.

I still wouldn't call it a "Fix" but like others have said, I believe the NFL feels certain teams should move forward, where others shouldn't

Some teams get a lot of questionable calls, while others couldn't buy a call

I think as a Whole this past weekend there were a lot of Questionable calls

 

[Betallsports]

The refs didn't have anything to do with that mauling the Vikings received in Seattle last night.

Both QB's sucked last night, the Defense on both sides were good, with a little help from the Refs.

no reason to be bias since you are a Seahawks fan, and there was No mauling because the final score had nothing to do with how the game was played
the Stats show that.

Seahawks won't get far in the playoffs if they play like that again