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Originally Posted by chuck
I don't like to complain about the officiating but this is pretty fking brutal.
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The blown TD call before half is a rules issue as much as an officiating one. The 'rules expert' could barely explain it on TV. The NFL needs to hire a technical writer because the rule book is atrocious and every year you find another rule nobody can understand. Not to mention they are watching replays on the field on a portable screen instead of making the calls in front of a bank of UHD 80" TVs at league headquarters like they should. I am not ever surprised by a blown replay call due to the NFL process.
The offensive PI call on Hopkins was pretty bad but they just appear to choose a few random times a season to call offensive PI, and Hopkins beats up DBs so I don't mind a random call going against him on occasion.
The FG call was awful because as I mentioned, the officiating mechanics should prevent that call from ever being blown.
But the most worst was when they brought the teams out of the tunnels to redo the kneel down to end the half because of illegal procedure on the OT. That's maybe the most tone deaf unaware call I've ever seen. They even conferred in a group for like 30 seconds before deciding to do that. I would swear those guys had never seen a football game in their lives to make a meaningless call like that.