Tank
Hall of Famer
That was bizarre. I think it was called an "illegal touching" or "illegal pass" or some other crap. It was a text book intentional grounding to avoid the safety, not sure how it could be viewed any other way.
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The King, the First 3 Quarters, and the Complete and Utter Capitulation...AGAIN!!!
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ravenslord
Ravens Ring of Honor
And the way things ended could have cost us the game.
I think you guys will be fine! I’m happy you guys got a W. Ravens will get better as the season progresses.
Yes good win! You guys will be fine!
OURavensFan
Ravens Ring of Honor
I have 7 pages to catch up on but so much for that ref always favoring the away team. He really doesn’t like us. The roughing and no safety call was wild, soft illegal contact too
SepticeyePoe
Hall of Famer
The only thing I can find online is that MAYBE there's a loophole where you can't call intentional grounding because the pass was caught. However the rule on the NFL operations website states that "a realistic chance of completion is defined as a pass that is thrown in the direction of and lands in the vicinity of an originally eligible receiver". The OL was clearly ineligible so there is no realistic chance of completion.
At the time, I thought maybe there was some overlap rule or something where the illegal touch negates grounding. After reading the rules, they should have thrown 2 flags, one for grounding and one for illegal touching. There's no negation there. It makes me so angry with how we've been penalized. If I had access to the game replays, I would go back to every penalty and see how many of them were soft/phantom and which team they were called for. Would be a great YouTube video and help us see if it's been as bad as we think or if we're biased.
At the time, I thought maybe there was some overlap rule or something where the illegal touch negates grounding. After reading the rules, they should have thrown 2 flags, one for grounding and one for illegal touching. There's no negation there. It makes me so angry with how we've been penalized. If I had access to the game replays, I would go back to every penalty and see how many of them were soft/phantom and which team they were called for. Would be a great YouTube video and help us see if it's been as bad as we think or if we're biased.
Tank
Hall of Famer
It's like they aren't even trying to hide it. Every week(all 3 this year) there have been multiple calls that are obviously incorrect, and that have been damning to our momentum. It would be different if it were going both ways, but that hasn't been the case.
as always the all-22 will be revealing when it's out
gtalk12
Ravens Ring of Honor
This is the part that bothers me the most
SepticeyePoe
Hall of Famer
I can only think of maybe 1 or 2 of those penalties that went our way and I don't think any of them extended our drives or stopped our opponent. I know our team has issues, but we don't need the refs on top of that
Dom McRaven
Hall of Famer
It's like the expression goes, "When it rains it pours." The near chokejob began when Tucker missed yet again another FG. From that moment forward, offense was struggling to move the ball and defense was bending AND breaking. Just a disaster.
Oh I almost forgot, they recovered an onside kick.
This might beca good thing.. we know they all can so its just a matter of time. Playoffs come and we look like last years defense
gtalk12
Ravens Ring of Honor
as it pertains to the offense, it is clear that we went into conservative mode and when they came back tried asking a cold offense to turn it on again.
it just makes no sense. we have been doing this now for a very long time. It does not make any sense.
Tank
Hall of Famer
Glad I missed most of that.
Tank
Hall of Famer
This is what I’m thinking. Suck for a while and turn it on heading into the tournament.
Dom McRaven
Hall of Famer
Very disappointed in the lack of play action down the stretch. Plenty of opportunities when they were doing everything to stop the run.
JO_75
Hall of Famer
John really said that penalties cost us points at the end of the game. Um... no. Our conservative play calling when we were going up and down the field with zero issues cost us points. Yeah there's been questionable penalties but also a lot of dumb legit ones that happen every year and nothing is done to fix it.
Blaming Penalties for the conservative playcalling is ridiculous.
Blaming Penalties for the conservative playcalling is ridiculous.
marklar
Pro Bowler
Some random comments.
Good: A Washington, I love that little guy with the large attitude
Good: Hamilton looked more like himself
Good: Van Noy
Bad: Why the fuck does Monken think that Flowers is a gadget player who you cannot pass to beyond 5 yards?
Bad: Eddie Jackson
Bad: Rosengarten being benched after last week?
Awful: The dynamic kickoff. Kick it into the endzone every time, there is no gain in trying to stop a return. At best you stop them at the 28 and you risk injuries and penalties. Bullshit
Good: A Washington, I love that little guy with the large attitude
Good: Hamilton looked more like himself
Good: Van Noy
Bad: Why the fuck does Monken think that Flowers is a gadget player who you cannot pass to beyond 5 yards?
Bad: Eddie Jackson
Bad: Rosengarten being benched after last week?
Awful: The dynamic kickoff. Kick it into the endzone every time, there is no gain in trying to stop a return. At best you stop them at the 28 and you risk injuries and penalties. Bullshit
SepticeyePoe
Hall of Famer
Interesting observation here. I wonder if Stout has always held like this or if it's something he started this season. May or may not be a factor regardless
gtalk12
Ravens Ring of Honor
The Texans are doing the same shit with Tank Dell and they are losing their minds over there.