NFL 2015-2016 Season Thread

Dr. Mario Speedwagon_sl said:

You people keep saying this like I don't understand what it implies if the penalty was called. I'm really sorry that the refs stole one of your 4-6 wins your team will get this year. You should actually be thanking them for improving your draft position.

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It's not just the Lions that are affected though. The defending NFC Champion is 2-2 instead of 1-3, only 1 game out of first in their division, and it's a conference win (or possible loss) which is the first tie breaker for the wild card if the teams in question didn't play head to head.

Omg, a bad call may have changed the outcome of the game, nay the entire season?

If they had called that fumble right against Brady in the AFC Championship game the Rams would have at least 2 Super Bowl wins and may have stayed together longer!!!!

That's a good point, I mean, the Fail Mary didn't change anything either.

Why is everyone assuming Lions win that game if that penalty gets called? Plenty of time left on the clock for the Hawks to drive and score. You could say the Hawks hadn't done anything offensively all game, but prior to that drive neither had the Lions.

opiate82_sl said:

Why is everyone assuming Lions win that game if that penalty gets called? Plenty of time left on the clock for the Hawks to drive and score. You could say the Hawks hadn't done anything offensively all game, but prior to that drive neither had the Lions.

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People are saying that? Lions got fucked. That is all. Maybe they win, lose I don't really care about the outcome. I care the NFL officials blew a major call that was potentially game changing and they had a review process to prevent it. Their job is to get it right, not get a pass because a team fucking blows this year.

Bad calls happen. They need to stop blowing shit dead for no reason and they need to be able to review almost everything, shit, they SHOULD be reviewing everything in real time with a team of fucking officials on every camera feed.

There does need to be some discretion on calling shit though, otherwise you're going to get a fucking hold on every single play. You want to hand over a win to the Lions after fumbling on the one inch line over an esoteric rule that I've never seen called in my life when the Lions had zero chance of recovering that?

Lions fucked themselves. Time to move on to next week when another team will get fucked. (again Cards got fucked just as bad and we aren't still talking about that are we?)

It is the Lions, Stafford would have fumbled the snap on 1st and goal.

At the end of the day its 2015 and the idea that there wasnt instantaneous feedback to the officiating crews ear pieces saying "that was a penalty, you missed it. give it to the lions" is... odd

It's stupid, not odd. No one should be acting surprised that a fairly obscure rule got fucked up, it happens every year.

NFL refs make 175k a year. They have other jobs. I say pay them like real NFL employees and make those guys show up to Ref work 5 days a week. Have them at practices or whatever making calls. Have them reviewing film. Whatever. For the amount of money the NFL wastes on other shit, make these guys full time employees but also make them accountable. You fuck up? Back to the NCAA for you!

Also seriously, get 1-2 refs in the booth with ear pieces and let them make calls on stuff.

John Harbaugh was talking about that, which I thought was funny given he got a super bowl ring out of PI calls on balls flung into the stands.

We do not know what the ball was going to do since it got slapped out of bounds.
IF nothing hit the ball it WAS going to hit the ground in bounds then it was anyone's guess as to what was going to happen, hit and bounce up, bounce "out" or bounce back... since no penalty - like was supposed to happen- was called it was seahawks ball. if the penalty was called it would have been the lions ball at the 1yd line with tons of time on the clock- and time outs- to run 4 plays to score to potentially win the game. the ref blew the call -by not making the call. no skin off my back since i do not care who won, but i'd rather have them get the call right the first time around.

For better or worse, I'm going to the Chiefs/Bears game this Sunday in KC. Should be a complete shitfest.

I'm sure it'll be fun, we are going to start early that day. Might also be going to the Pittsburgh/Chiefs game in a few weeks, too, if the stars align.

The Chargers game would be better though.

Pittsburgh @ Kansas City 3,243 tickets available from $139
Cleveland @ St. Louis 5,037 tickets available from $28

Chiefs fans are more gullible than Rams fans.