The New England Patriots 2014 Playoffs Thread

Welp.
NFL Refs missed blatant hold on Suh - ESPN

I think if they had called those two huge plays correctly it would be Detroit moving on. Tell us again how the Cowboys awesome is what made them win.

Cowtards have a 12th man too, the refs.

I am just going to throw this out there for thought:

Whether you feel (as I do) that the refs are slightly in the tank for Dallas or not is not relevant. Detroit has a team with a dirty reputation and a player who should have been watching the game on his couch for trampling someone. The reputation is long earned and well deserved. When you act that way on the field and have that kind of rep, the refs are NEVER going to give you the benefit of the doubt, especially with the attitude they have about it whenever Suh does something assinine. In fact, they are going to be watching you a lot closer. And they set the tone for this game with some of the early cheap shots on Beasley and the kicker. Perhaps if Detroit was not pull wonky shit all the time they would be cut some breaks from the refs. Of course they could also have avoided all of this by not completely collapsing in the second half, especially against a secondary where they had CJ and Taint running routes all day.

Admit Dallas got help or Lions got screwed then we can happily move on.

You'd think people in this thread haven't ever watched a playoff game before. The NFL playoffs are always a huge assault of non-call football. Players intentionally get more physical because they know stuff aint gonna get called as much, its like a fucking unwritten rule of the game.

That said, this penalty don't get called even in the regular season, so not sure why anyone here thinks that should of been some PI.

DeLLy_sl said:

Yeah, like the NFL wouldn't protect itself as much as possible.

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Garret talked about this in an interview. He said each team gets to send 10 questionable calls into the league for review every week, and they usually come back about 80% of the time and say the wrong call was made, then they show it to the refs and educate everyone so it doesn't happen again. This was one of the plays the lions sent in, and we've already talked about the official response. Now, maybe the 80% is just his own experience, I have no way of knowing that, but it sounds like they don't just say 'fuck you' and protect their own on these reviews.

1987_sl said:

For everyone who thinks that call is a non-issue. Replace the cowboys with the patriots, and the jerry-wagon with the kraft-mobile (official getting off it), and 99% of this thread would be up in arms. It was a horseshit excuse for refereeing. End of story.

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Well, that would just be cheatercheck up to his old tricks again.

Grimmlokk_sl said:

See? Can't do it. Physically incapable, Jerry has remote underpants tazers and a zaps their balls if they go against the Cowherd!

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That sounds delightful. If that were true, I'd go against the cowboys a lot more often. Can we get one on my taint too?

radditsu_sl said:

If thats Calvin he is open...unless that lb drops into the lane.

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If that LB is #54, I believe he did drop into the passing lane at least 3 times in that game. IIRC, 1 int and 2 more that shoulda been if he didn't wear ACME bricks on his hands instead of gloves.

I go back to my comparison with Patriots "fans" and shades of the tuck rule incident. Of course Pats fans are mostly bandwagon assclowns who vanish when the team has a bad game, while Cowboy fans are certainly more loyal (at least the current crop, Aikmen/Smith era was a different story). On the other hand, Pats fans away from football are not from Texas, so there is that.