1. How is it that a TE with control of the football is considered a “defenseless” receiver?

2. Correct me if I’m wrong but isn’t it pass interference if the defensive player is draped over a receiver for which whom the pass is intended? Refs only called an illegal contact.

3. For every personal foul that the Raiders were charged with, the Vikings could have also been charged if the same logic had been applied…for example, Carson Palmer was hit while already on the ground more than once…DHB’s injury could have constituted a flag…and all the extracurricular pushing and shoving from the Vikings would have drawn flags if it had been the Raiders initiating the pushing and shoving.

These are just a few but anyone who saw the game knows that there were far too many to mention…but I do have to mention the refs gift wrapping half the field for the Vikings on one their scoring drives…just saying.

League owners voted Thursday to approve a new 10-year collective bargaining agreement with its players. The vote was 31-0. The Raiders abstained.

Re the flags: Kelly gets called for a blow to the head, which Ponder ducked INTO, but the 300 lb lineman attached to Kelly’s other arm, holding him, is overlooked?

A few games ago, DHB was in the back of the end zone and the ref threw his hat on the ground signalling a player OOB. DHB was OOB. He got pushed out of the back of the end zone by a player. LOS was the 6 yard line. He was in a pass pattern. Where was the flag for illegal contact?

Blows to the head do not always draw a flag. Carson Palmer knows that from yesterday’s game. He took a blow to the head and saw no flag.

Officiating is bad all over the league. I just believe the Raiders see the worst of it.

New coaches , new players, new schemes, yet year after year, the Raiders lead the league,

The only constant is the officials., and how they are told to throw flags.

In the Denver game 3rd and more then 10, Tebow runs the ball and gets next to the sideline. Curry doesn’t lay him out, he just pushes and makes sure Tebow ends up out of bounds. PF, 15 yards, drive continues.

Without that 1 call that was iffy at best, Oakland wins the game. With that win would have came controlling the #1 seed at this point.

Just sayin..

hard enough to beat another team, but almost impossible to beat the refs week in and week out.

One would have to conclude if this continues that eventually somebody is going to go zebra hunting, and take them out.

You got that TD anyway Jackwagon…. AP ran it in four plays later…….idiot.

The harvin touchdown that was wiped off was during the first scoring drive. you cant score twice in one drive. In other words, even if that td counted, Raiders still wouldve won. You clearly didnt watch the game.

The Raiders have earned their reputation as an undisciplined, sloppy team. However, the number of penalties in that game yesterday was ridiculous, and both the Raiders and Vikings have right to be upset.

This defenseless reciever crap has to be redone…The worst hit of the day (DHB getting kneed in the back of the head by E.J. Henderson) didn’t even get called…You know why? Hitting is part of the game and when you go over the middle bad things can happen (luckily DHB seems to be doing okay initally).

Every player/coach/fan knows what is a clean/spirit of the game hit and what is spearing/dirty/helmet to helmet…Why can’t the league and refs figure it out?

Make defenseless WR penalties and helmet to helmet hits (especially ones where the QB/WR ducks at the last minute to prepare for the hit) reviewable. 15 yard penalties if called incorrectly have WAY too much impact on the game.

You watch the game and you see it’s third and long. The Raiders stop the Vikes. Wait, a Raider was flagged for a hard but legal hit on the WR. 15 yard personal foul penalty. Now the Raiders stop them again. Wait, there’s a flag. The Raiders are called for a personal foul for touching the QB’s neck. The Raiders stop them again, and yet again a borderline personal foul call keeps the drive alive.

What Hue Jackson should have done was just asked his defense to lie down on the ground when the ball was snapped. Let the Vikes have the TD and when asked why his team didn’t been play, he could explain that he didn’t want anymore personal fouls, and the refs were going to give the Vikes a TD anyway.

Each week in the NFL, the calla are so inconsistent. A hard tackle on one week is a personal foul the next. Last week against SD, on SanDiego’s last drive, I watched as their left offensive tackle BLATANTLY held the Raiders’ defensive end on consecutive plays. Any ref at any level would have called holds. Not one call on those plays. Against New England, I watched as a New England lineman makes two blocks on TD running play, one legally, while the key block that sealed the edge was done by sticking his leg out and tripping the defender right in front of the ref. Again, no call.

I’m sick of it. Sunday’s game was so blatant that the NFL should fire every one of the refs.

Louis Murphy needed to take his TD catch home to signify possession against SD.

SD receiver gets up untouched and does a Plaxico and spikes the ball while not down. What you say? Well that my friend is a forward pass, just ask Mike Perreira the head tool. Plaxico’s? well that was a fumble.

The list goes on and on. Rob Lytle fumble, Tuck, etc. I have forgotten more absurd calls than I remember. There are about 5-10 a year.

http://www.nbcdfw.com/news/sports/Raiders-Get-a-Penalty-for-Thanking-God-63539342.html

This game was an atrocity for all the reasons above. One minor thing, but reminded me of another one of our famous plays was when AP went down to a a knee after his TD. Chris Johnson got a penalty for celebration in Dallas two/three years ago for doing it after an INT.

There are tow rule books in the NFL, ours and one for the rest of the teams.

If Goodell does not do something, someday something bad will happen at a Raider game. Some lunatic fan will lose it.

If the ref’s are cheats, the last person to complain is a NFL team member (Mr Hue)
As for you the Raider fan, whining is ok.
Sorry about your luck…..
keep the drives going for those struggling offenses out there.

Goodell is bad for football.

imagine how mad he woulda been had the raiders lost…

Even the biggest Raider haters have to notice this stuff. I have so many friends that are Charger fans and even they see it.

For a franchise who has been through SO many different head coaches and coaching staffs….not to mention players, to lead the league in penalties EVERY year….something is wrong. Even when Al was alive, if anyone thinks he was walking around practice telling players “go ahead and commit penalties…I dont mind”, they are insane.

It may not be conspiracy theory, but you can call holding on every play. You can damn near call PI on every play. When officials go into a game expecting one team to commit penalties…they are naturally going to see their penalties more.