@ Jeffchadwick: I agree. Pettigrew costs us games, Hill is a very good QB and I’m stunned he is not a starter somewhere.

I will say this: Shaun Hill is a better backup than half the current starters in the NFL.

As a Titans fan, I felt the officiating was reasonably good in the season opener.

In week 2 (TEN @ SD) it was pretty bad…but not to the point where it had a significant effect on the game.

But in yesterday’s game (DET @ TEN), poor officiating played a major role in the way the 4th quarter and overtime period unfolded. It definitely influenced the length of the game, and could have easily changed the outcome, as well.

The best thing to be said for the officiating in that game was that they didn’t play favorites; it was equally bad for both teams.

The NFL is an absolute joke. a/k/a the Goodell legacy.

I think it’s a little too dismissive to just say “we’ll never know” about the 12-yard difference. Bironas was having a terrible day, having missed 2 other field goals. Now if David Aikers was the Titans kicker, I’d easily say the 12 yards would have made no difference. But on this particular day, it may have.

Of course, it became moot with that strange 4th down call by Schwartz. But that 12 yards may have made more of a difference than we want to believe.

With all that said, marking from the wrong 44 is an awful mistake. I was flabbergasted when they overturned the catch & I was even more confused when I saw the place the ball at the 29. But even if they had got that right, they got another first down after that & I think Bironas makes the FG anyway, despite missing 2 fairly easy ones earlier in the game.

The Detroit coaching staff should have caught this at the time.

Cant challenge in overtime moron they did know. Apparently you dont know the rules of the game. You must be a replacement official yourself.
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The missed spots based on judgment calls of where the runner was down can be challenged but I don’t think this is an instance where a coach’s challenge (red flag) is necessary or even allowed. It is an administrative call by the officials and the coach can simply point out the error and hope for the best. (is there a “game under protest” rule in the NFL similar to the MLB rule?) The only instance I can think of where a coach had to challenge the official’s incorrect spot was the Bills punt. That challenge was not for the admin error of a few extra yards–it was for the error of calling the punt a touchback when it wasn’t.

I’ll preface this with a big yes, I’m a Lions fan. We should have won that game yesterday, not because of anything that happened in the game but because we’re the better team, end of story. Play this game 100 times, the Lions win 99 of them. I don’t mind losing because the Lions aren’t good enough to be undefeated however some games are MUST wins because you should never lose them and this was one of them.

Very frustrating game but the Titans earned the win and the Lions earned the loss. At least it was exciting.

Yeah, they make mistakes. But it isn’t like, you know, they can’t tell the difference between the words “heads” and “tails” in overtime on Thanksgiving.

Hopefully this helps to right the ship. We need Delmas back terribly.

Go Lions.

Thanks! I did not understand this either. Either this story is really bad or the officials gave the ball to Detroit after a personal foul on Detroit which in either case is awful!

I did not see any stories about SF getting to call for a challenge after being out of time-outs. Not to mention the play that they challenged Toby Gerhardt was stopped and being carried backward when the ball was stripped, clearly forward progress had been stopped and the play should have been over.