Lets assume they missed half of the Jaguars penalties. Twice that. You could honestly say the refs were calling that game both ways looking at all those obvious penalties?

I have seen "letting them play" football. And if you are doing that the Bouye PI call is larcenous.

You do not penalize a defender for playing the man right, not giving up his position to the sideline and taking him straight down the field to the point he is stepping out of bounds, and not giving Brady anywhere to put the ball. The throw was nowhere near catchable or near the receiver.

"Letting them play" is not allowing a lineman to shove his fist back into an ends face, especially not on a TD throw and not calling a single hold among multiple cases.. If all TDs are reviewable, why wasn't that caught? "Letting them play" is not allowing a defense to mug receivers well downfield, pull on their jerseys and bodies to keep up with their route and call it one way when it was legitimate in all but the one case against the Jags. And to never call it, in routine cases, right in front of a ref, not once against New England (wasn't that what they used to gripe about back in the day?).

C'mon. You do the math.

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