[Elvis]

[Elvis]

[moklerman]

Gee, the Seahawks winning a game on a blown call. That never happens.

[Hacksaw]

In the end, the ball never lies.

[bubbaramfan]

When is the NFL going to hold officials responsible? That back judge should be fined, suspended, or sent back to school, because he clearly didn't know the rules, and affected the games outcome. Lions most likely would have won that game. Instead they make excuses for the idiot and insult fans intelligence when it was clear the guy batted the ball and the official was looking right at him 5 feet away.

[Gareth]

When is the NFL going to hold officials responsible? That back judge should be fined, suspended, or sent back to school, because he clearly didn't know the rules, and affected the games outcome. Lions most likely would have won that game. Instead they make excuses for the idiot and insult fans intelligence when it was clear the guy batted the ball and the official was looking right at him 5 feet away.

He should be fired. There's only two possibilities in my mind:

1. He didn't know the rule
2. He didn't have the guts to make the call

He was in perfect position, staring right at it. No excuse.

[Hacksaw]

When is the NFL going to hold officials responsible? That back judge should be fined, suspended, or sent back to school, because he clearly didn't know the rules, and affected the games outcome. Lions most likely would have won that game. Instead they make excuses for the idiot and insult fans intelligence when it was clear the guy batted the ball and the official was looking right at him 5 feet away.

He should be fired. There's only two possibilities in my mind:

1. He didn't know the rule
2. He didn't have the guts to make the call

He was in perfect position, staring right at it. No excuse.

BOOM. Right on..

BTW my last comment about balls lying was intended to represent the outcome of the Seahags season. In the end they will not prevail. The tide is receding.

[moklerman]

I feel the same exact way about the whole crew that covered up their mistake by using the "forward progress", get out of jail free excuse in the Rams/Cardinals game.

Just goes to show something needs to be done about the officials. Stricter and harsher grading of them individually isn't improving the problem and in fact, is making things worse. More penalties are being called than ever have been, the game is crap to watch and they're still not getting the outcomes correct.

[den-the-coach]

I feel the same exact way about the whole crew that covered up their mistake by using the "forward progress", get out of jail free excuse in the Rams/Cardinals game.

I swear @moklerman sometimes it's hard to understand what side you're on. At the very minimum the forward progress is a rule so yes they might as you post "covered up" their mistake, but it's a rule. What they did on on Monday was an abomination and clearly the crew did not understand the rule and thus Seattle wins another game because of this.

I guess you forget the onside kick the refs almost did not allow against the Rams in week one because of the fair catch signal, but they picked up the flag because they were contacted by Dean Blandino who instructed them that the ball had to hit the ground and in that case it didn't so the fair catch by Marquez was legal.

Blandino should have stepped in on this incident as well, but he didn't and over the years the Rams have been on the bad side more often than not so let's use a different example instead of harping on the forward progress rule which actually is a rule just like the batting of the ball.

[moklerman]

I feel the same exact way about the whole crew that covered up their mistake by using the "forward progress", get out of jail free excuse in the Rams/Cardinals game.

I swear @moklerman sometimes it's hard to understand what side you're on. At the very minimum the forward progress is a rule so yes they might as you post "covered up" their mistake, but it's a rule. What they did on on Monday was an abomination and clearly the crew did not understand the rule and thus Seattle wins another game because of this.

I guess you forget the onside kick the refs almost did not allow against the Rams in week one because of the fair catch signal, but they picked up the flag because they were contacted by Dean Blandino who instructed them that the ball had to hit the ground and in that case it didn't so the fair catch by Marquez was legal.

Blandino should have stepped in on this incident as well, but he didn't and over the years the Rams have been on the bad side more often than not so let's use a different example instead of harping on the forward progress rule which actually is a rule just like the batting of the ball.

I use it as an example because it is most recent. And just as blatantly as bad of a call as the Seattle game. It has nothing to do with who deserves or doesn't deserve the call to balance the cosmic football scale.

Both instances were bush-league terrible and illustrate why they need to try something different with the officials.