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Originally Posted by Cobra Mgr
What irks me on that play is that it is normal for the WR to ask the ref if he is on the LOS or not & the ref gives him that courtesy. So Samuel did just that and still got flagged?
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Ya, and Collinsworth mentioned that during the replay. However, it seemed like the WR asked the ref pretty much right before the ball was snapped, so it wasn't clear a) if he got an answer from the ref, b) if so, what that answer was, and/or c) if the WR even had time to make an adjustment *if* the ref said he wasn't on the LOS.
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Originally Posted by Cobra Mgr
Before then, refs review whether Was was OOB, rule he wasn't so they mark it back & run the clock. Later, NYG takes a TO, they review again to see if this play the player got OOB & reverse it to give NY back their TO. Followed by the illegal formation,...
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Nothing seemed amiss to me in any of that. I mean, they made the incorrect call in both instances, and then replay review got it right, and the subsequent fixes were per the rules...
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Originally Posted by Cobra Mgr
... then the no call on the PI...
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I'm having trouble remembering the specifics, but between the games Saturday and Sunday, it seems like there were
multiple instances of a) a pass being broken up, b) the replay showing the defender clearly committing pass interference in order to break up the play, and c) a knucklehead analyst praising the defender and/or criticizing the receiver, and making no mention of the PI. That stuff irks me... (Different sport, but in last season's playoffs clash between Boston & Milwaukee there was a play where Giannis took -
literally - five-possibly-six steps after giving up his dribble to make spin move from the FT line to the hoop. During the replay, where the five-or-six steps were plain as day, Van Gundy couldn't have been more effusive in his praise of how awesome the move was, and was obviously oblivious to the travel... let alone the
extent of the travel. Idiot.)