Trent Green is out

Pereira's office is usually a joke... but they got this one right.

 

I liked Ron Jaworski's comment. He said a flag should have been thrown on play.

On Eddie Kennison for illegal block in the back.

 

Refs have missed illegal blocks before -- Dante Hall's punt return for a touchdown from the shadow of his own end zone against the Broncos immediately comes to mind.

 

Come on. Lay off. There were only like 7 blocks in the back on that play.

 

Nope, just one very good one that took out two Broncos.

 

Dante Hall owns the Broncos.

 

Nevermind the other seven Broncos who could have tackled Hall.

 

Dante Hall hasn't owned anything since midway through 2003

 

One more thought as I mull this over again: rarely do your eyes deceive you.

Think back to the Tuck Rule game. Nobody, not even Bill Simmons, was thinking "Damn, I hope they remember the Tuck Rule here." It was -- and remains -- a fumble. But the longer they looked at it, the more reason they found a reason to overturn it on a technicality.

Think back to last year's Indy-Pitt playoff game. Everyone knew Polamalu intercepted that pass. It was plain as day. Yet the longer the play was reviewed, the more reason they found not to call it an interception, even though anyone with a lick of common sense knew it was.

The tape confirms what I saw with my own eyes last Sunday: Green clearly slid, and Geathers beheaded him. Now, the NFL had three days to view the tape without the glare of a national TV audience... and Kennison's presence gave them the needed excuse to protect the officials and not levee a fine. Believe what you want, but Kennison didn't affect that play one bit. Geathers never even knew he was pushed.. he was TOLD he was pushed. If Kennison isn't there, Geathers is fined.

I'm not saying that the hit had as much of an effect on the KC game as the blown calls did in the other two. Faaaaar from it. But, it's another case of over analysis overcoming common sense. That's all.

 

Common sense says slide before harm comes your way. Usually when you see quarterbacks do hook slides, there's no one around them, there's no one close to them. And if someone does come in trying to make it hit, the quarterback is almost always flat on his back already to make it obvious that it was a late hit.

Green didn't do that, though.

 

SHIT WHAT DOES THIS MEAN FOR THE CHIEFS HOW ARE THEY GOING TO FAIR.

 

Life's unfare.