You’re preaching to the choir…I’m just saying don’t blame the refs.:They’re simply doing what Mrs Goodell instructed them to do.

Gonna be a lot of missed tackles this year because players will pull up in fear of being flagged.

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Unfortunately, that apparently doesn’t work. Manning tried to pull up and still got flagged.

NOW they’re calling penalties on guys that DIDN’T EVEN HIT THE RECEIVER??????

This is the height of lunacy, and on a third down no less. Manning didn’t HIT the receiver, he was hit BY the receiver.

Good God, does ANYONE in the NFL see the idiocy in where this has gone?

I can’t imagine what comes after THIS. I bristle at the posters talking about “flag football”, but THIS play clearly shows that we’re headed that way.

/s off

After a flag is trown on the play the Ref steps into the middle of the field.

“Personal Foul, name calling to a defensless receiver, a 15 yeard penalty will be added on to the end of the catch and the defenseman has to sit in the corner for 5 minutes. Automatic..First Down!”

-laughs-

This is Theatre of the Absurd.

It’s not killing the game. It’s just an adjustment, like every other adjustment ever made in the game.

But @peytonwantsaflag has it right – if the NFL was really concerned, they’d just add more officials on the field. Real, human eyes on you is what affects your behavior, not after-the-fact rulings which take ambiguous amounts of money from enormous paychecks.

At what point does a receiver STOP being a receiver? I mean, the ball was clearly out of his hands and uncatchable at the point of the impact with Manning…

Is any player merely LISTED as a receiver classified as ‘defenseless receiver’ until they catch the ball, take 5 steps and can brace themselves?

This is one more in a series of glaring examples of how shoddy officiating has become. If the players/coaches are going to be held accountable, then refs and the League in general need to be as well.

And for those who bitch and whine about ‘it’s always been this way’ and ‘leave the game in the hands of the officials and stop with all the reviews’….if the calls the refs were making were far more accurate, we wouldn’t NEED to have all the double and triple checking to make sure they were actually correct.

“The contact between Manning and Garcon consisted of Garcon’s shoulder hitting Joseph’s thigh… If anything, Manning’s attempt to avoid contact with Garcon set Manning himself up for potential injury, especially if Garcon had hit Joseph just a little bit lower and collided with Joseph’s knee.”

it used to be only a few guys had the stones to go over the middle, now everyone can because they know they wont get hit until they have informed the defence that it is now ok to hit them. or unless they make the necessary “football move”