Comments on: Titans accuse Saints of dirty play, blowing a whistle on the sideline

By: scra22

scra22 — Tue, 13 Dec 2011 15:14:57 +0000

Deb says: Dec 12, 2011 1:02 PM
But whistles on the field is DIRTY. I’m just saying a team that would switch the feed in the coaches booth wouldn’t be above rigging a whistle on the field. The League should check it out.
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I’m sure they will, and I’m sure they’ll find that the Titans are just being sorry losers. It’s a ridiculous allegation and the Saints would be crazy to think they could get away with it, with the refs RIGHT THERE. The whole team would have to be in on it for the defensive players to avoid confusion as well. And again, how would the refs not hear it and stop play? It’s just full of holes.

As for the Saints/Steelers game, stadiums routinely withhold replays that might help the other team. It is gamesmanship and it’s just one more aspect to homefield advantage. The precious and pure as the driven snow Steelers are not the only team that has had that happen to them, and the Saints are not the only ones to employ it.

By: cmc504

cmc504 — Tue, 13 Dec 2011 11:44:14 +0000

“tatum064 says: Dec 12, 2011 9:44 AM

it sucks that Locker couldn’t have pulled that game out. The Titans are a better team that they even think they are. Saints are in a world of trouble outside the dome. Thats partially why they got rolled up in Seattle.

if they open up at the Niners – another one and done. Niners take hitting to another level, just like the Titans do.”

Now I am a Saints fan…true, and there have been IMO a few questionable hits from Harper but COME ON…its football! With that said…did you watch the playoff game last year? The amount of injuries we suffered from game 7/8 until the end of the year made that difference (lets see, Bush OUT Thomas OUT Brees TORN MCL just to name a few, I could go on) Not taking away from the 49ers who look like a GREAT team this season, but we most def traveled to SF and beat them AT HOME so its not impossible.

By: buzzbissinger

buzzbissinger — Tue, 13 Dec 2011 01:55:51 +0000

Remember the days before relentless fining and the internet, when players settled their repective beefs on the field and not though the media?

By: cacrawley23

cacrawley23 — Tue, 13 Dec 2011 01:36:08 +0000

Im not a Titans fan. But if there was whistles that is dirty and nfl should look into it.

I watched the game and saints fans need to stop complaining you only had 3 more penalties and there were bad and non calls on both ends. You were not playing against the refs, it was just a bad called game all the way around.

The titans do need to stop complaining about dirty hits because it is football. They should be happy that they were able to hold drew brees from scoring.

By: discosucs2005

discosucs2005 — Tue, 13 Dec 2011 01:35:01 +0000

How could this even be an advantage? The only way it would work is if the entire team knew exactly what play it was going to be used. You’d literally have to say in the huddle “we are going to go with a fake whistle, so keep playing.” And even then, it’s unlikely to actually stop the offense completely with out one of the refs hearing the whistle and stopping the play.

By: discosucs2005

discosucs2005 — Tue, 13 Dec 2011 01:30:34 +0000

Just please don’t ever refer to this as “whistlegate.”

By: geauxmez

geauxmez — Mon, 12 Dec 2011 23:47:03 +0000

would someone mind defining ‘dirty’ for me?

Ive watched every saints game this year, and 90% of the ‘dirty’ hits would have not been flagged (and surely not fined) 2 years ago.

I’ll admit that Harper gets hot headed and passionate, but if safties cant hit hard, then whats the point?

football is a ‘dirty’ sport, suck it up.

oh and one more thing… WHOOO DAAAAAAAT

By: domehead

domehead — Mon, 12 Dec 2011 21:41:25 +0000

Yeah, right….That’s priceless. This from a defense with Cortland Finnegan and former alterboy Albert Hainesworth. I guess the Saints were just being duplicitous of the Titans (Thanks, Tiki).

By: earthtopft

earthtopft — Mon, 12 Dec 2011 18:54:44 +0000

Saints organization has been rife with corruption for many years. At least since they kneecapped Favre in 2009, at any rate. Finally someone comes out as a whistleblower on the whole mess.

By: blasterpastor

blasterpastor — Mon, 12 Dec 2011 18:46:13 +0000

Good gravy! Just shut up and play ball! This whining over a loss that will not and should not be overturned is ridiculous. This is the NFL, not tag football! The Titans under Jeff Fisher were the dirtiest team in the NFL. I thought they might turn a corner and man up now that Fisher is gone but they’re still poor mouthing teams for doing exactly what they have done for years!

By: Deb

Deb — Mon, 12 Dec 2011 18:02:44 +0000

I’m not a Titans fan, either, but if there’s film evidence of the Saints pulling some moves like that, then the League needs to investigate it. When the Steelers played the Titans last season in New Orleans, we scored but the refs called it short. We didn’t challenge because our coaches didn’t see the replay until it was too late. They didn’t see the replay because the Saints had switched the feed in the coaches booth from the network feed to an internal Saints channel. If our coaches had challenged, we’d have gotten the TD and ultimately won the game.

My feeling is what happened to us is gamesmanship, and our coaches should have been paying closer attention to what feed they were getting. But whistles on the field is DIRTY. I’m just saying a team that would switch the feed in the coaches booth wouldn’t be above rigging a whistle on the field. The League should check it out.

By: rpkllc

rpkllc — Mon, 12 Dec 2011 17:52:35 +0000

It was WHISTLEMAN. Wasn’t he at the game. The Times-Picyanose has a pic of him at the game.

By: ccooww

ccooww — Mon, 12 Dec 2011 17:48:28 +0000

I have a idea how to fix this problem, let’s adopt little league rules and not keep score. This way we have no losers and both teams declared winners.

By: txtuff

txtuff — Mon, 12 Dec 2011 17:28:53 +0000

I’m far from a Titan fan, but I have respect for their head coach and they have been playing hard and tough this year. But come on, lose one hard game and you start whining!!!!!! You lost, take like a man and come back next week. Let the fans whine, lord knows we do enough of it LOL.

By: pigskinswag

pigskinswag — Mon, 12 Dec 2011 16:08:15 +0000

I haven’t heard Titans fans whine this much since Ray Lewis took Eddie George’s soul.

By: goawayeverybody

goawayeverybody — Mon, 12 Dec 2011 16:02:39 +0000

Considering the fact that the refs were clearly lined up on the side of the Titans, making up bogus penalties against the Saints all game long and stealing a clear touchdown from Jimmy Graham, if this is all the Saints did, I’m not really angry about it.

By: tqaztec

tqaztec — Mon, 12 Dec 2011 15:58:48 +0000

Marshawn Lynch didn’t hear a whistle.

By: tjigger

tjigger — Mon, 12 Dec 2011 15:43:46 +0000

If the whistle was heard while the titans were on offense, wouldn’t that help them?
The defenders would stop chasing and tackling the ball carrier?

By: goodluckking

goodluckking — Mon, 12 Dec 2011 14:59:36 +0000

Even if it was proven that the Saints cheated, the NFL isn’t going to do anything about it. I mean they’re not the Detroit Lions after all.

By: saintsly

saintsly — Mon, 12 Dec 2011 14:51:19 +0000

If there was a whistle, it was coming from the Titan Fans because Saints fans dont get seats that close to the field. Besides, anyone with a whistle that blows it during plays would have been removed from the stadium. This is just an assinine attempt to create problems for the fans so they will now have to issue whistles to ALL fans to make the game even.
Harper did all he could do to stop a touchdown and had it been a Titian DB, he would have done the same thing. The alternative would have been to just let him go ?????? I think NOT. This has gotten to be a Pu$$y league and the Saints not only had to beat the Titians but they had to beat the Refs also. It was very clear that they were trying to help Tennesee win that game with two TD’s disallowed for nit-picking calls at some very crusial times and plays. Ther Saints spotted the Titians two TD’s and still lost.
They also stopped the best running back in the AFC for just 26 yards the whole game. I guess that was dirty too !!!!!

By: realitypolice

realitypolice — Mon, 12 Dec 2011 14:50:12 +0000

cowboycjn says:
Dec 12, 2011 7:55 AM
Heres a quarter, call “1-800- wah-wah” if you want to cry.
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That’s not enough numbers, and most payphones are 50 cents now.

By: comeonnowguys

comeonnowguys — Mon, 12 Dec 2011 14:44:23 +0000

Dirty play flap after the game is one thing.

But if they are actually doing the whistle thing, then yeah, that’s not exactly “sour grapes,” homers.

By: tatum064

tatum064 — Mon, 12 Dec 2011 14:44:09 +0000

if they open up at the Niners – another one and done. Niners take hitting to another level, just like the Titans do.

By: sojumaster

sojumaster — Mon, 12 Dec 2011 14:20:12 +0000

houseofbacon says:Dec 12, 2011 7:37 AM

The Saints? The team that bragged about intentionally hitting the QB after the whistle in the NFC Championship?

Nah, never.

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The question is which whistle? The ref’s or the one on the sideline?

By: louisianafootballfan

louisianafootballfan — Mon, 12 Dec 2011 14:18:27 +0000

So you mean to tell me that, with all the flags thrown in this game, and with the Titans able to hear this from the field, the refs had no knowledge that this was going on? It was loud enough to confuse the Titans players, but the refs never missed a beat? This just sounds like sour grapes to me. I’m a Saints fan, but I would be disappointed if my team tried to win this way. The story just isn’t believable. These refs were calling ridiculous penalties (really, false start on the QB), and I’m sure they would have called that immediately.

By: jmsincla

jmsincla — Mon, 12 Dec 2011 14:03:02 +0000

Funny, you never really hear the winning team complain about stuff like this. I mean, it couldn’t have been one of the 66,000+ people huddled around the field…

By: xxwhodatxx

xxwhodatxx — Mon, 12 Dec 2011 13:58:07 +0000

Roman Harper is pretty good. He just forgets to hear the whistle, sometimes at the worst possible moments but I didn’t see that this game.

By: ehatem

ehatem — Mon, 12 Dec 2011 13:53:34 +0000

Right off the bat, I’m a Saints fan. And I’ll readily admit I’m getting a tad aggravated with Harper with late hits on the QB. That being said, the play in which Washington is complaining about is not a dirty play. If you go back and watch the play, Washington had pretty much avoided two of the three Saint defenders and had Harper left to beat. And he put a damn good move on Harper that almost got him past the last man between him and the endzone. But Harper reached out wildly trying to grab anything on Washington to try and make a play. It just so happened that he grabbed the facemask. And before everyone goes, “He should have let go”, you need to understand that if he let go, that’s 7 points. If he holds on, its 5 to 10 yards tacked on to the end of the play, but no touchdown. Anyone out there who says they’d want their team to let go instead of doing what Harper did is lying through their teeth. That’s not dirty football, that’s just football.

As for the whistles, seriously guys. Those refs were calling penalties so incidental its not even funny. Do you really think a bunch of refs who threw so many flags during the game that they all may need rotator cuff surgery really allowed the Saints to get away with that? Really?

By: camssportsjam

camssportsjam — Mon, 12 Dec 2011 13:52:20 +0000

buh-buh-but i thought only the Lions played dirty?

By: salmen76

salmen76 — Mon, 12 Dec 2011 13:42:30 +0000

Should we call the “Whambulance”? Ha Ha. What a bunch of whiners. Since when did the Titans become whiners? That was a great game and if the titans are mad about anything they should be mad about their QB taking a sack on 4th down with no time on the clock. Throw the ball up in the endzone and give your guys a chance. The Saints needed that test to shake off some of their Dome Team wussiness. Thanks Titans for a great game! Geaux Saints!