MorKnolle
All Pro
I just re-watched the Rams game on tape and wanted to point out that the officiating sucked ***. In the possession that the Rams scored the TD to make the score 27-17, the refs made four horrible calls against us in the span of eight plays that initially gave them the ball at the 7 yard line and eventually led to the TD. The game winning TD in overtime, the refs conferred for several minutes whether there was an illegal formation/shift on the play and eventually decided they'd rather head home than getting the call right. Upon review, there was clearly no one on the left side of the line that was up on the line of scrimmage and they should have had a 5 yards penalty that would have negated the TD. Should we have stopped Curtis on that play anyways? Definitely yes. Did we choke at the end of the game and allow the Rams to come back? Yes. Still, really irritates me that we are the only team in the league that routinely get shafted like that and every play that is close is always called against us and many plays that could be called in a way so we could review to make sure the refs got it right are called down by contact or some other nonsense so they can't be reviewed (see the fumble on the aforementioned TD drive of the Rams). I have yet to see a defensive holding penalty on a running play on any team in the league other than us, and we got it I think five games in a row, some of which were at key times (Jacksonville), and let's not even go to the "fumble" in the Bengals game. I guess when a team is bad everything goes against them and the refs don't have enough respect to give them the benefit of a few calls. Anyways, enough ranting about this, I had just watched our collosal choke again and was pissed off about that and wanted to vent before going to bed.