NFL GDT: 2018 NFC Championship Game: (1) New Orleans Saints vs (2) Los Angeles Rams

[KaseMeOutside]

The Saints got screwed it's not even debatable. The officiating this year has been really bad and this just underscored it

 

[KapG]

Love how everyone is *****ing about the missed PI call. The game was badly officiated for both sides, get over it.

That doesn’t make the call any more pathetic.

 

[GKJ]

Didn't see anyone else bring this up here so I will. As a Ram fan, if anyone gives the mating call of the loser "we got screwed by the zebras", I'll point out this...if anything, the Rams were owed 1...

Rams-Saints: NFC Championship referee named and the Rams have an ugly record with him

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Don’t understand how you’re getting screwed by getting an officiating crew you don’t like.

 

[c9777666]

So apparently there was a bad call?

 

[Patty Ice]

I'm just going to leave this here:

 

[Roboturner913]

I give the Rams DB on the PI no call credit. He rolled the dice the refs would swallow their whistles in a huge moment and he won. Congrats to him.

He knew he was beat. He said it himself. He ran into Lewis intentionally because taking a PI call would've saved the touchdown. He wasn't even rolling the dice, he was just doing the smart thing and trying to keep his team in the game.

 

[Roboturner913]

A better/closer look, not that one is needed:

 

[Ivan13]

No attempt to play the ball hasn't got a clue where the ball is, hits a receiver while the ball is still 2 yards away, but it's a judgment call. Can't cure stupid, which is what the refs in this game were.

 

[PanthersPens62]

Time to expand replay so that calls like this can be corrected on the spot and not cost a team a win or in this case a trip to the Super Bowl.

 

[Duke33]

No attempt to play the ball hasn't got a clue where the ball is, hits a receiver while the ball is still 2 yards away, but it's a judgment call. Can't cure stupid, which is what the refs in this game were.

Looks like there were two of them there, and they talked after the play, and for whatever reason said "f it, let it go".

The NFL is going to issue a statement today, whatever stupidity that does. There's nothing they can do to compensate the Saints for this. Nothing. It cost them a Super Bowl trip. I know the Saints are still good, they'll have other chances, but you can never bank on that in this league. Might be 40 years before they're in a conference title game again. You just never know.

They weren't perfect but they had a chance to win, and it was taken from them due to the incompetence of the officials which has been a problem all season for the league.

 

[kovacro]

 

[GKJ]

Change the world.

 

[JeffreyLFC]

Pass interference should definitely be reviewable same with facemask penalties.

I'm on the fence with roughing the passer but I would also consider it.

 

[Rhaegar Targaryen]

In an instance like that, there’s no reason the league shouldn’t able to fall down to the field and change that call.

 

[GabeTravels]

Belichick has been looking for reviews on penalties forever. It'd be nice if it finally happened.

 

[DangleCity]

Opening up a can of worms making all judgment calls like PI reviewable. You can make a case that any PI in the 3rd or 4th quarter could have massive implications on a game and review them all. Simple solution is get better officials. Train them better, have them train in the offseason. Maybe have some officials that are under the age of senile. They made a step in the right direction after FINALLY hiring full time officals, but they still have.a.ways to go.

 

[GKJ]

Don't know where you're getting "better officials" from. Who is working a level above the NFL?

 

[izlez]

I can't believe people still want more reviews and I'm on an island of wanting them removed entirely

 

[DangleCity]

Don't know where you're getting "better officials" from. Who is working a level above the NFL?

Did you just ignore the next two sentences after better officials?

 

[GKJ]

Did you just ignore the next two sentences after better officials?

They kind of already do what you're suggesting though. So where else do you get them from?

 

[DangleCity]

They kind of already do what you're suggesting though. So where else do you get them from?

Does the NFL have some training program? I thought they basically just work off of experience officiating at other levels

 

[Newsworthy]

Saints absolutely did not deserve to win. They were up 13-0 at one point. No excuses for them to give the game away. They also **** the bed in overtime.

Actually it's the Rams undeserving as they pretty much did nothing for two and a half quarters. Not to mention the worst non call ever.

 

[GKJ]

Does the NFL have some training program? I thought they basically just work off of experience officiating at other levels

I don't know how intensive it is, but yes, and a recruiting program. Going through the college system is an element for that, you're not supposed to go from the street to training to the NFL. Look at what happened when they had replacements.

 

[SJSharksfan39]

I can't believe people still want more reviews and I'm on an island of wanting them removed entirely

While I don't want an entire removal, I don't want more replay. These games already have no flow because you have to drop everything and look at a play or all the flags. If everything is going to be possible for review, we're going to start looking at 4-5 hour games.

 

[robertmac43]

Another thing the NFL can take from the CFL is the ability to challenge penalties. It may add some review time here and there but the benefits of having the command center look at blatant plays like the one from yesterday out way the extra couple of minutes waiting.