(09-29-2024, 09:45 PM)The_Franchise_QB Wrote:

(09-29-2024, 09:31 PM)Jaguarmeister Wrote: Sure, plenty of blame to go around. No argument here.   But did the refs spot them 4 or not?

Idk I feel like we could say we were spotted some points with the holding calls holding the tinhorns back. I’m just pretty numb to the refs tbh, tinhorns did everything they could to gift us this win and instead we got our 10th straight loss. Over a year since a win.

I don't need to see an even penalty distribution.  Sure, when you see an uneven one it does make you look a little more closely to see if there were some bias or whatever, but some teams commit more fouls than others and the game should be called accordingly by the refs.  They showed the replay on pretty much every tinhorn infraction and it was pretty clear it should have been called.  I don't recall the refs contributing to any of our points with questionable calls.  

That was a horrible defensive holding call that wiped away a 3rd and long incompletion and instead gave the tinhorns 1st and goal.  It's not a stretch to say the refs contributed to significantly to that extra 4 points there and they won by 4.  The tinhorns are/were sloppy today, but that's one instance where they got bailed out and it directly led to the additional 4 points.  The browns got a very questionable roughing call on their first and only TD drive against us that also wiped away a 3rd and long incompletion.  Both were already in FG range and should have resulted in FG tries instead of 1st and goals.

None of this exonerates anyone's poor play today.  We've just had some very bad luck to go along with the poor execution.

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