BBQ vs. Cheesesteaks: Super Bowl LVII running thread

Half the distance, but an automatic first down, which defeats the point.

 

He had good reason to think he would get away with it. The officials hadn't called holding all night.

 

Too bad for him. Do the crime, you do the time.

 

This is the part I disagree with, all anyone is looking for is consistency. You can’t let everything go all game then call that.

 

Sorry. You’re committing a penalty. You KNOW you’re committing a penalty. Just because you got away with it before doesn’t mean you can bitch about it when you get caught this time.

To their credit, Bradberry and the Eagles didn’t..

 

To the official's disgrace, they had reason to complain. To effectively end the game by throwing a flag for something that had been ignored all game is inexcusable.

 

I’ve never understood why defensive holding is an automatic first down — another part of the game now so skewed to the offense.

Michael Lombardi said Sunday was a true “Big 12 game” and that’s spot on.

There’s only one fix but it’s too radical.

1st and 15. Ten yards is really easy to pick up now.

Or they can just call all the false starts on right tackles that have gone uncalled the last five years or so.

 

The consistency is the issue. If it had been called on the first or second possession of the game, then the teams have time to make adjustments and not do that or be put on watch that the rules are being enforced.

Instead, it hadn't been called throughout the game, then it was called in the last minute of regulation. Even if it wasn't their intent, it was a copout. It was like a high-school game I saw where, on the final possession of a close game, a three-second violation was called. It had been going on all night, but it was called only in the waning seconds.

Technically, the officials can do so. But the (lack of) consistency is a problem.

 

That's all well and good.

But I suspect you'd be a little pissed at being ticketed for going 57 mph in a 55 mph zone . . . when no one else is.

 

Also, where “do the time”, the time can’t life without parole for a misdemeanor. And the official has to know that. He has to know if he makes that call the game is effectively over, so it better be a mugging and not what it was on that play.

 

So now you want officials deciding the timing of flags? The officials who everyone says are worse than they’ve ever been? You want them exercising an extra level of discretion?

And no one is coming at this from the other way. It was defensive holding. Bradberry admitted it. The official saw it. Wouldn’t he be screwing KC by ignoring it?