NFL Week 17 -- Are We There Yet?

[DanOregon]

Brad Allen's crew on Steelers-Ravens this week.

Which means there is an even more problematic crew working Jet-Patriots and Raiders-Broncos.

 

[MileHigh]

Which means there is an even more problematic crew working Jet-Patriots and Raiders-Broncos.

Shawn Hochuli crew has Broncos-Raiders.
Land Clark has Jets-Patriots

 

[DanOregon]

Those were two of the best refs to come out of the Pac-12 in years.

 

[MileHigh]

Tepper fined $300,000, so 10 cents.

 

[tapintoamerica]

Tepper fined $300,000, so 10 cents.

That was quick.
I suppose he had incentive to make the story go away.

 

[da man]

I have vague memories of that, and I get that the instinct is to cover someone who looks eligible even if they aren't. And I can see players getting confused on the number. But I don't think a D can be faulted for leaving an ineligible player uncovered.

Also, I don't really know what the O can do if they realize the red has the wrong number. Yell at the player not to run his route, call TO, whatever you do the play is burned.

Refs have screwed it up at least twice in games I've watched, it seems like it should be simple but this is a league that had to legislate the coin toss ffs.

Lions were out of timeouts.

 

[Junkie]

Why should a defence cover ineligible players? Seems like a waste of manpower. Why not focus on the players who are in fact eligible and can score the two points?

You'd rather have your defense allow guys to run wide open and put it in Allen's hands to get the call right? Also, if you cover 68 and he's not eligible, there would be an ineligible man down field call. There wasn't. Obviously, no refs thought 68 did anything wrong until after the play was over. (And this shirt plays right into the hands of the "its fixed" minions.)

 

[Junkie]

Also because the Eagles couldn't hold a lead in the last two minutes against a 3-12 Cardinals team at home.

Which would be moot if Allen didn't blow a call that was made when literally nobody was moving.

 

[Brooklyn Bridge]

Not playoff-related, but A-Ron accused Jimmy Kimmel of being on Jeffery Epstein's client list.

 

[Vombatus]

 

[Webster]

A-Aron went from one of the most likable athletes out there to whatever he is now.

 

[Tighthead]

You'd rather have your defense allow guys to run wide open and put it in Allen's hands to get the call right? Also, if you cover 68 and he's not eligible, there would be an ineligible man down field call. There wasn't. Obviously, no refs thought 68 did anything wrong until after the play was over. (And this shirt plays right into the hands of the "its fixed" minions.)

"Guys wide open" meaning ineligible receivers? Yes.

Guys wide open like receivers? No.

Yes, I've considered that risk and I still consider covering an ineligible man to be stupid, and I'm still stunned that a defence is getting chided for leaving him open.

It doesn't really matter if they didn't figure it out until after the play was over. That 15 seconds changes nothing.