NFL conference championship Sunday

[Michael_ Gee]

There were 28 penalties in the two games and the losing teams were called for 20 of them. Given the added commercial breaks, if the Super Bowl is reffed the same way the game won't be over at midnight.

 

[Scout]

I hope with the new, and proper, focus on mental health, someone stays with the kid that pushed Mahomes. I feel bad for him.

 

[BTExpress]

We have the equivalent of five-minute timeouts for on-field injuries.

Often I'm only casually watching with the sound low, and I see they come back from a long break and it's third down?

I hope with the new, and proper, focus on mental health, someone stays with the kid that pushed Mahomes. I feel bad for him.

Momentum and inertia are powerful forces, and I doubt if these adrenaline-fueled defenders are watching a ballcarrier's feet to see whether they're out of bounds. They're just determined not to let them turn the corner.

Yeah, it was a penalty. But if I was out there I'd swallow the whistle on some of those plays more than the usual refs do.

 

[Batman]

Lane Johnson, Fletcher Cox, Brandon Graham, Jake Eliot and Travis Kelce are the only Eagles left from the 2018 winners

Also an offensive lineman, Isaac Seumalo.
The Eagles have 22 players drafted after that Super Bowl season that are on this year's roster.

 

[Roscablo]

There were 28 penalties in the two games and the losing teams were called for 20 of them. Given the added commercial breaks, if the Super Bowl is reffed the same way the game won't be over at midnight.

Those were two atrociously officiated games. You can't say the Eagles shouldn't have won because the 49ers didn't have a quarterback, and the Bengals screwed themselves with the late hit. But the refs won the day, I guess.

 

[outofplace]

Would have been more fitting had Vontaze Burfict committed the penalty.

Not sure if you were referencing the game against the Steelers in January 2016 or just alluding to Burfict's tendency toward dirty hits. The hit is at the 11:50 mark. There are still quite a few Steelers fans who think this is the hit that scrambled Antonio Brown's brain. To put it in context, Roethlisberger was out of the game with an arm injury, but they brought him back in after Landry Jones threw an interception that should have ended any realistic chances of the Steelers winning. The Bengals fumbled on the next play but still had the Steelers outside of field goal range until the personal foul on Burfict and the unsportsmanlike conduct on Jones.

 

[Deskgrunt50]

I like both the Chiefs and the Bengals. Wasn't rooting for anything but a fun game. It was definitely exciting. But the last half-hour wasn't too fun.

As it went on, my sense of fairness had me pulling for the Bengals. Generally they had too many suspect calls go against them. More than the usual road team. And the "do over" play was a total botch.

The hit out of bounds was the correct call, obviously. But there was blatant holding by the Chiefs that was missed. Mahomes would have never gotten past the line of scrimmage with that busted ankle.

That being said: Phuck Philly. Go KC.

 

[Chef2]

Cincinnati fans are absolutely losing their chili on teh twitterz

 

[Roscablo]

Cincinnati fans are absolutely losing their chili on teh twitterz

Man, like I said earlier, I am not into rigged things. The Bengals had their chances. They had the ball at the end and everyone was sure they were going to get it done. The late hit is inexcusable.

That said, two calls absolutely could have hurt them. The do-over down that let the Chiefs keep the ball for another series (the holding call on the ensuing play was correct), thus impacting time and field position. Then the phantom DPI on the next Chiefs possession, which ultimately very much impacted field position. Do the Bengals win if they don't get set back by those? They were bad, bad calls.

Again, though, it's not like they didn't still have their chances.

 

[BTExpress]

So many flags are called far away from the action that didn't give the offending team any kind of advantage. Maybe "by the book" calling them is the right thing. But I wish they wouldn't.

There was a grounding call against Burrow when he saw he was doomed early and just chucked the ball into the ground. Same thing every QB did today at one time or another.

But apparently there wasn't a receiver close enough on Burrow's throwaway. So forking what? The pass wasn't intended to be caught, whether the receiver was 5 feet away or 50 feet away. Zero need for a flag there.

 

[Batman]

We have the equivalent of five-minute timeouts for on-field injuries.

Often I'm only casually watching with the sound low, and I see they come back from a long break and it's third down?



Momentum and inertia are powerful forces, and I doubt if these adrenaline-fueled defenders are watching a ballcarrier's feet to see whether they're out of bounds. They're just determined not to let them turn the corner.

Yeah, it was a penalty. But if I was out there I'd swallow the whistle on some of those plays more than the usual refs do.

In terms of late hits, it wasn't even the most egregious late hit you'll ever see. Ossai hit him maybe a step out of bounds with a one-handed shove. It was a penalty, but it wasn't a dirty play — or even necessarily a boneheaded one — by any means.

 

[BTExpress]

That's the thing. Most of these out-of-bounds hits are just pushes.

95% of the time QBs take rougher hits after they throw a pass, with no call.