Piss poor officiating...again.

[dblanch66]

Santana clearly had his hand UNDER the ball...AND...on the 'Aints only TD drive, they clearly did not get the ball snapped before the play clock ran out but no call and they gained good yardage down to the 2 and scored in the next 2 plays. A loss would have compounded the frustration, but still very glaring no calls. Yeah... and last year, Plummer didn't fumble on the goal line and Allstot got in.

[dmek25]

i agree with those 2 missed calls, but i thought the refs overall did a good job

[Big C]

i thought the refs were crap, lots of missed calls. was embarassing how long it took to realize that brees was past the line of scrimmage when he threw it. also, may seem small but refs messed up big when saints stretched for a first down but wasnt tackled while stretching, and was actually tackled short of the first. the delay of game they missed was huge like u said, and they missed a clear hold on carter on a drive the saints eventually got a first

[saden1]

They were crap, they missed couple of holding calls and one that was clearly a push in the back when Carter was rushing the QB. They were shit and I hope they don't get to ref in the playoffs.

[skinsguy]

That no call on the delay of game was extremely too obvious. The pass to Moss was close, but I certainly felt Moss had caught that ball.

[skinsguy]

Originally Posted by dmek25

i agree with those 2 missed calls, but i thought the refs overall did a good job

They missed quite a bit of calls today. I don't know if they were just "letting them play" or what, but I wouldn't say they did a good job.

[Citizens for 81]

They made a huge mistake with less than 1 min to go and the Saints were driving. Reggie Bush caught a pass, he was tackled in bounds, but the official stopped the clock thinking he had gotten out of bounds.

Several seconds should have been ticked off and NO would have had to blow a time out.

[MTK]

The worst non-call by far was when Carter broke free after Brees and he basically got tackled from behind. Horrible non-call.

[skinsguy]

Originally Posted by Mattyk72

The worst non-call by far was when Carter broke free after Brees and he basically got tackled from behind. Horrible non-call.

And what about that pass (think it was in the first half.) Brees was pressed and threw the ball away. It should've been intentional grounding. The ball never made it back to the line of scrimmage.

[BeastsoftheNFCeast]

I didnt think it was horrible, but certainly not good, what really got to me was Carter was being held from behind on sevreal occasions, and not one call.

[TheMalcolmConnection]

How do you MISS a delay of game?!

[VTSkins897]

i can understand missing it by like a fraction of a second but that was nearing 2 seconds... pathetic

[SouperMeister]

Originally Posted by dblanch66

Santana clearly had his hand UNDER the ball...AND...on the 'Aints only TD drive, they clearly did not get the ball snapped before the play clock ran out but no call and they gained good yardage down to the 2 and scored in the next 2 plays. A loss would have compounded the frustration, but still very glaring no calls. Yeah... and last year, Plummer didn't fumble on the goal line and Allstot got in.

And don't forget about the sorry, no-account line judge who didn't have the balls to throw a flag when Brees threw an illegal pass AFTER scrambling past the line of scrimmage. When Gibbs threw the red challenge flag, here's how the official's huddle probably sounded:

Ref: So did the QB still have posession of the ball after crossing the line of scrimmage?

Line Judge: Duh, yeah, I think so.

Ref: So WTF didn't you throw your flag?

Line Judge: Duh, I was waiting for you to throw yours first.

Ref: That's your call as the Line Judge. Pull your head out of your ass and wake up!!!

At least the Ref did the right thing by giving back the Skins challenge and calling the penalty after the fact.

Baldinger the idiot totally missed commenting on what should have been the delay of game you mentioned. I believe that was on a key 3rd down play that set up the Saints only TD. I believe the Umpire is responsible for spotting delay of game calls, and again, the crew had their thumbs up their asses on that one.

[ncskinsfanec]

Not to be apologetic for refs, but they don't matter one way or another 90% of the time how a game turns out. They can make horrendous calls at times (looking at you, officiating crew from Super Bowl 40), but it's really up to the teams to decide the outcome of the game. The Skins have gotten both good calls and bad calls this season, we won today, and that's all that matters!

[Pocket$ $traight]

Originally Posted by dblanch66

Santana clearly had his hand UNDER the ball...AND...on the 'Aints only TD drive, they clearly did not get the ball snapped before the play clock ran out but no call and they gained good yardage down to the 2 and scored in the next 2 plays. A loss would have compounded the frustration, but still very glaring no calls. Yeah... and last year, Plummer didn't fumble on the goal line and Allstot got in.

That wasn't exactly an obvious call. I didn't see the game in HD today but I couldn't tell that he definitively got his hand under the ball.

Maybe you need 6 beers to see it...