The Texans lost this game on their own, we understand that, but this thread had transitioned from a conspiracy against the Texans to one that was pointing out poor officiating performances in the NFL in general. That's great and all that you have experience refereeing and you know how hard it is to do it, but those zebras that step out onto the field on Sunday, it is their JOB to get these calls right. This isn't jury duty where the refs are randomly selected and expected to perform a service on the fly. It's ridiculous that people use the excuse "eh, it happens" or "the game is so fast" and "there are so many things to look at" when they blow calls. This isn't little league, where the refs are volunteers and the excuse "it happens" is accepted. This is professional sports where they are getting PAID to not let that happen. If you and your crew can't handle dissecting plays that involve 22 guys at a fast speed, you shouldn't be out there and you shouldn't be collecting a paycheck. Games like yesterday, blatant missed calls everywhere on both sides, seems to be happening all the time in today's game which shows nothing but how these refs are mediocre at their jobs. If this city is so obsessed with not accepting the Texans being mediocre, why are some of you OK with the officiating being mediocre, where the standard is HOPEFULLY a 50% success rate of calls? I want to see more Ed Hochuli's and Jim Joyce's who man up and admit they did a horrible job, that way they are at least acknowledging their mistakes and their performances weren't up to par of where it should be
You bring up how coaches have apologized at a later time because they realized you got the call right, that's great because the bottom line was you got it RIGHT. I didn't need super slow motion to see Joe Flacco being tackled to the ground by 2 guys for a sack only to flick the ball forward a foot into the ground to nobody (that also didn't even make it back to the LOS while still in the tackle box) was intentional grounding. I could see it clear as day as it was happening, and it wasn't happening "away from the play". It WAS the play.
And yea sure, I'll sign up for refereeing. Hopefully work my way up to the NFL where on a Sunday I end up getting 30% of the calls correct, miss or just plain swallow my whistle on the remaining 70% of infractions and afterwards I'll just say "Eh, it happens", collect my pay check and be on my merry, incompetent way.