NFL Playoffs (Page 7)

I will say that on the play where Seattle fumble and Bowman recovered it, I did not see him recover it until they replayed it in slow motion from a different angle, so I was surprised to see him holding the ball when he was on his back. hard to believe that all the officials did not see it, but they did get the ball right back.

Any word on what Bowman's injury is?

Also on the unsportsmanlike penalty on the sideline. It looked like the Seatlle player when pushed, got pushed into one of the officials holding the yardage stick and to me it looked like that influenced that call.

Well, it's not going away. And I do not think it delays the game much or takes away from play.

I forgot how games actually go since I had not been to one in a while. I took me half the game to realize why in the heck all the player just stand around doing nothing all the time... it's a commercial break. So I pay good money to go to a game and watch players stand around all the time so viewers at how can watch commercials... .b ut ad revenue helps pay for the game so there you are.

So we can delay a game an hour or so for add revenue... but we can't delay it two minutes to correct a mistake? These guys train their butts off to be the best they can be, and to have it missed by a ref, when we have 30 cameras on it is just silly. The only ones penalized by mistake should be the players losing the game for the mistakes they made... not from the calls the ref makes. And no, I do not think refs favor a team... they just make mistakes... and they are very very good at what they do... but we have replay.

At the end of the day, it will still be players making plays that determine games. I'm tired of obvious wrong calls going... the fact SF got the ball back after the goal line play is not good enough... SF lost a key player that play... but what if they lost a key player on the defense the next play... when the defense should have not been on the field... and we all know SEA could have scored. No reason at all for such blown calls to go forward... especially as silly as ... it's non-reviewable... no... actually, the entire country just reviewed it and it was wrong.

So here's my deal.... I have always said.. defense wins Championships. Running games win Championships. Seattle has both. Football in Jan-Feb is not the same as September. It is going to be hard to beat Seattle.

Having said that... if weather is bad, it is going to be bad for both. Neither are cold weather teams. Denver has a running game. Denver has too many offensive weapons to cover. Denver's defense has been better despite all the losses they have.

The "X" factor... experience. Denver is young... but they have Manning, Welker, Fox, Del Rio, Elway... they have all been there done that. Invariably, they can say what they want, but the pressure of the Super Bowl gets to players... and one team seems to show up and is a deer in headlights. Maybe not that bad, but they do not play as well as we know they can play. I'm going to say that will be Seattle.

Denver is hot... all the nay sayers about San Diego... Brady/Bilicheck... Manning/legacy and now for two weeks we are going to hear about how hungry and young Seattle is blah blah blah.... I do not think Denver is going to be denied. I think Denver is going to win... I think it is going to be really hard.

Exactly... you are not the only one.... Mike Perrera can't even call in and say wait... wrong call! ... no not "missed" call... actually wrong rule enforcement. It's very silly.

While I agree and understand that it is not going away, I think it does delay the game.  Instead of a traditional time out to take the wind out of the other treams momentum they do a challenge which I believe is much longer, on average. (Still trying to verify that #).

As to your final statement, then why not replay every single play?  Why only limit it to certain plays? 

Which is why they are charged a time out if they are wrong... if they are right, they deserve to have it corrected... and they only get 3 challenges... it isn't like they can challenge everything every time.

As far as your last question...exactly. Everything should be re-viewable... everything. You get three challenges, 3 time outs... use them wisely. If players stand around for an hour waiting for commercial breaks... we can afford 10 minutes.

I am more for doing away with instant replay!  Yeah, calls are missed, but that is what gives way to the rivalry games. I hate the stoppage of play, seeing a play 15 times on TV. I htink everything could be called right IN SLOW MOTION!!!

fouls are missed in Bball, calls are missed in Baseball, calls will be missed in football. It happens

I don't get the baseball analogy.  They're expanding instant replay next year to cover just about everything except balls and strikes.

There is no logical argument that can be made to knowingly accept bad calls in games that can change outcomes. Let the players play, what happens happens. Don't say it didn't when the whole stadium can see it did.

And to the point of reviewing, a coach can use the challenges as wisely as Moses but if he had 3 challenges, won all three and then the worlds worst call is made he is screwed.  And so is the team. 

And the delay is longer.  Like this article (http://ideas.time.com/2013/12/07/lets-review-50-years-of-instant-replay/).  4 minutes versus a 2 minute TV time out.  Although this article claims it is not affecting the game (http://www.ninersnation.com/2012/7/5/3138647/nfl-instant-replay-not-causing-games-to-drag).

Either way, I'm a luddite when it comes to replay.  Don't like it.  Nothing will make me like it.  Now, GET OFF MY LAWN!. 

Then review the game afterwards and grade the refs. If they miss calls that were no brainers, then fine them or penalize them somehow. There will never be a perfectly called game.

I hate the replay cause IMO it kills momentum

But that is just it.. the competition committee understand it won't be perfect... but it gives a little break. It's a compromise... I also think if you get all three right, you should get a 4th. But that is fine, we can leave it at three... there are not that many plays challenged. It is usually for points. Lots of games do not even have a challenge. So these game changing plays are not occurring with regularity in every game. And you can even see coaches not willing to give up a time out on a questionable call... it has to be irrefutable, or what call made stands. So there are all kinds of checks to balance out replay.

The checks work. Coaches do not challenge willy nilly. Let's just allow them to cover every play.... Look at SF... they challenge and get the ball on the one yard... Kap fumbles and Seahawks score a TD. If you change the game, anything good or bad can happen after... it's your call. But I'll bet any pay check SF would have chose to get the ball... because you do not know if Seattle would score next play. You take the sure call to keep points off the board... or points on the board.... or gain possession. But not for a simple holding to keep from punting.

I should probably just move on... but Happy Festivus!!!

Yeah but only the last 2 minutes of a basketball game matter, the rest is a waste of time. Oh, and nobody likes bball.

As far as the game, yes the fumble recovery was a bad call, but didn't do much to change the game IMO. I can understand that the hitting the punter call was wrong based on the rule but I think the rule should change. The hawk looked like he was going for the ball, had no intention to hit the punter and an accident occurred. I don't think possession should change over something so minor. They should have to be able to "prove intent" to give the 15 yard auto first down penalty. We have all seen someone blatantly roughing a kicker, and then you have what happened on Sunday, a player who was clearly going for the ball and had no intent to hit the kicker. 

At the end of the day the Hawks outplayed the 9'ers IMO. I don't like either team, I am hoping Peyton crushes the Hawks, but I don't think the game was won or lost by the officials. Turnovers played a huge part. 

I vote for less replays on injury plays. They must have played Bowman's knee getting destroyed 10 times. My knee was aching just watching it.

Reports are he tore the ACL and the MCL, surgery on one, rest for the other. Sure looked painful!

Bring back the replacement refs!!!  The regular refs are incompetent!