hawksfansinceday1":1nisy8kl said:
This will be the 3rd forum here I've posted this in but it belongs on this thread as well......
Yesterday I saw a perfect example of how utterly inconsistent and often terrible NFL officiating is. Watching the Bears v. Lions T-giving morning and a Lions' punt coverage guy drilled a Bears' punt returner a split second after the returner caught the punt. No fair catch and as should be, no penalty on the tackler. Remember that the Seahawks got the ass end of a HORRIBLE call in exactly the same situation against the 9ers when our coverage guy was called for a penalty for doing pretty much exactly the same thing. Only difference in the play in this game was that the Lions' guy lead with his helmet though not to the returner's head. Our guy made a perfect form tackle and was called for a penalty.
That penalty on Seattle that night is a perfect example of a situation where a Sky Judge could've told the onfield ref that there was no penalty and to pick up the flag. Of course then the league would have to pay 16 Sky Judges a week and you know, they're hurting for money so guess they can't do that.
Screw the NFL for refusing to care about the quality of its officiating.
Much different than "selective officiating" as some conspiracy theorists want to believe.
It's not as bad as people want to believe it to be. It's almost impossible to be right all the time, across the hundreds of plays in 16 games per week.
Unless you want to stop every play and look for the errors