The Refs or the game calling genuises?

[desertdawg]

I do not recall one holding call on the home team who was protecting a rookie. (might have missed it) I have never heard such ******** remarks from the booth, I wondered if I was watching the same game. The officiating was more than a little one sided, and the booth talked about junk that didn't apply at all.

 

[Chris_Sanders]

Pretty sure it was 5 holds on arizona versus 1 hold on the Rams.

 

[NMCard]

"chippy"

 

[Osbern61]

"chippy"

I may have heard that word used once or twice during the broadcast.

 

[Stout]

I do not recall one holding call on the home team who was protecting a rookie. (might have missed it) I have never heard such ******** remarks from the booth, I wondered if I was watching the same game. The officiating was more than a little one sided, and the booth talked about junk that didn't apply at all.

Yeah, I counted at least 3 holds against them that weren't called. Thankfully none of them happened on big plays for St. Louis, or I would have gone through the roof.

 

[DakotaCardsFan]

The officiating was pretty bad, but listening to Ron Pitts call the game was more painful. Several references to the Rams blocking the Cardinals FG attempt (I'm surprised AW didn't come up to the booth and neck-punch him). Say it once and I can let it slide, say it three times and it's obvious you're confused.

The worst was him going on and on about the Rams not trying to get into field goal range on their last drive when they were down by 4. Total buffoonary! Lynch finally interrupted him and said, "When you're down by four, a field goal isn't going to help you." I would have paid money to see Lynch's face leading up to that exchange.

 

[football karma]

Pitts was awful.

He had a hard time keeping which team fumbled to whom, which team blocked the other's FG attempt, and I believe he referred to a blocked punt at one point.

This was midway through the second quarter. Good grief.

As for officiating. different crews call different things -- I believe there were no holding calls for either team in passing situations.

As I posted in a diff thread -- I am amazed how a Dockett or Campbell had beat their man, have a straight line to the QB with the offensive lineman holding on for deal life and not get a call. And this isnt just this game -- I see the same thing in other games. The edge guys get that call, but not interior guys it seems.

 

[JeffGollin]

Random Comments re Refs

1. Yes the Rams held at least a few times, and they didn't call it.

2. Timmy's knee was on the ground before the ball came loose.

3. It became evident, in my opinion, during the game that the refs were not going to be our friends and that, in order to win, we'd have to avoid "putting the game in their hands." (This almost didn't happen when THT gave up the ball. And as it turned out, the officials came up with a bad call but we were able to overcome it).

4. But the classic comment about officiating came from Lions' HC Jim Schwartz (who deserves to be the poster child for head coaches whose teams got really screwed). He said, in effect: "We had plenty of other chances to win. If I ever feel I have to use a blown call by an official as an excuse for not winning, I don't want to be a football coach anymore."