NFL Gameday Week 4 • Page 45

I'm enjoying this so far. Hopefully Dallas keeps shooting themselves in the foot.

 

I'm cool with the Saints getting bailed out considering the Eagles got fucked over in Dallas last year.

 

Defense is looking good considering how bad the field position has been after these rare fumbles by Witten and Zeke.

Saints get the ball after halftime so we have to stop them immediately or get another turnover.

Our offense has come alive in the 3rd quarters so far this season so hopefully that continues.

 

I’d rather the calls get made correctly for whatever the penalty is, not be happy incorrect calls are still being made just because plays from the past were messed up.

 

I’m not familiar with the Zach Brown play but yeah, I’m surprised they didn’t flag him.

 

Yeah I'd rather not have each ref pick their own strike zone based off who is or isn't at bat

 

Reffing is very hard but I feel like they've gotten enough tools and rights to call more correctly than they have lately

 

Hard agree with this on both counts

I give them the benefit of the doubt, but at this point officiating has “oh come ON” moments every single game

 

Awesome play by LVE

 

Yeah exactly, like I feel like reffing shouldn't be continuously getting worse but it is

 

Saints should have went for it.

 

I don’t think reffing is any worse or better really. Its too fluid to really judge that. It’s an extremely hard job to do and every game has a trillion different scenarios going at insane speeds.

I think it’s super rare that actual 100% verifiably incorrect calls even effect the games enough to influence who wins or loses.

 

DAMN @ Dak’s third quarter stats through three games

 

I feel like it's gotten much worse. Who knows, maybe it's my football knowledge improving or maybe it's the internet amplifying the misses in reffing, but it does feel like it's gotten much much worse.

I agree with your second statement

 

I think you’re right about it being your football knowledge and internet stuff

 

Might also be that the more the NFL becomes a passing league the more calls are passing/catching related which is a much grayer area than rushing spots and fumbles were

 

I think it’s this

 

Personally I want corners to have more leeway to poke and prod at WR’s mid route provided that they don’t actually impede their progress, their face mask, or any of their limbs

 

Some of these PI calls are soft. Sometimes you can’t even box a dude out or like put a hand on his jersey to keep track of where he is while you watch for the ball. I hate that shit. Football is a CONTACT sport you should have to fight through a dude a little bit to get a catch

 

A teddy flea flicker is absolutely a throw 7yds downfield

 

I feel that the internet jabbering about it has definitely shed more light on it. One of those things we didn’t know existed / how bad it was until everyone in the world could show every horrendous example on a weekly basis kind of thing.

There’s a TD catch in a Super Bowl by a Cowboys receiver that is hilariously not a catch but was called a catch because it was like Super Bowl 15 or some shit. Wish I could remember where I first saw it but I know it was on Twitter with the caption “can’t believe things like this used to be called a catch” or something. The Twitter world would lose their minds if that happened today, but back then no one said boo about it and probably only 10 people raised a stink about it and what did they do, write letters to the newspaper or whatever they did back then lol

 

Kamara is so damn good.

 

Woof, hell of a drop.

 

That’s the same exact play Saints got called for on Dak lol