Smoot Lays the Smack Down (Redskins vs Lions)

[over the mountain]

Originally Posted by EternalEnigma21

I will say the facemask call was total bs. That may have been a 5 yarder last year but did not deserve a call.

There is something missing in the offense. It seems like if you finish 23-28 (2 of which I know were caught out of bounds) passing and over 400 yards, you should put up 30+ points. Penalties have a lot to do with that but its been an underlying theme. We dominate yardage and time of posession but that doesn't reflect where it counts the most; on the scoreboard.

yeah the facemask was so slight i dont even think it would have been a 5 yarder. this year the refs are told there is are no 5 yard accidental facemasks anymore, only the 15 yard personal foul variety. first half of the season there is a large outcry that facemasks have gone uncalled (and they have) so now refs are told to call more facemasks which leads to over calling it.

its just like hockey were a new rule is over called early in the season then by the end of the season it starts to even out, but that facemask on jansen was garbage.


every year they chnge/add rules it takes a while or over and under calling before it settles in. remember all the defensive illegal contact calls when that first was made a rule a few years ago? now it is hardly called.

Not to go on a ref tirade but why the hell wasnt the play whistled dead as "offsides unabetted to the qb" when that lion jump offsides on the left side and had a clear path to JC? if jc didnt avoid him and he got sacked i would have blown a gasket.

atleast the league has cut down on these 60 yard PI calls where the contact is slight and mutual. they relized just because a receiver falls down and there was some touching it doesnt deserve 60 yards and be a game changing play. those PI calls changed games, havent seen many questionable long PI calls this year.

ok tirade/rant over. sorry fellas inconsistent officiating really irks me like a home plate ump with a changing strike zone. call the strike zone consistently early in the game and the players will adjust and rely on it.

go skins!!