Tell us again how great Russell Wilson is, Pete.

This still counts as you not keeping your word about not posting on this site. Maybe PFTnation can pool some loose change together to buy you a shiny new bridge to live under, or jump off of.

I’ve never seen a single series screwed up so badly.

There were so many mistakes in the Monday Night game that infuriated everyone. Other locally broadcast games have had the same bad calls too.

The below standard officials messed up with a kicking ball for the 2 point conversion as well (there ought to be only one size ball but that is another story).

The debacle is that clearly the game is not decided by the players on the field but by amateurs who are temporary part time employees of the NFL who have only been associated with the league a few weeks.

Shame on the penny pinchers who run the NFL.

The Packers had a TON of bad calls go their way last year, and this year, it’s not fair to them?

Go cry, Titletown.

Of course folks are ‘ready for the lockout to end’ … Even the owners are ready for it to end.

The problem is neither side is ready for it to end in a way that makes them the loser.

Of course the refs are ready to have it end where they get 200K part time salaries and defined benefit pensions.

Of course the owners are ready to have it end with a defined contribution pension and with an evaluation system.

No matter how bad it is now, the ref situation will e-v-e-n-t-u-a-l-l-y get better, especially because (ironically) the present refs can be evaluated and tossed aside if necessary.

Until then, the players (who’s union is in collusion with the refs) will continue to badger the refs and fight for an edge like they were substitute teachers– which would CLEARLY jeopardize player safety more than refs making calls after plays. The one thing that won’t get better will be the NFL’s financial picture when/if they keep a slew of refs on the payroll long after they’ve retired with a defined benefit pension plan… Do you seriously need any examples that prove this out?

Pay them 400k/year, match 50% of their 401k contributions, whatever… just create a system where you have fore-knowledge/control over expenses going forward. That (and the threat of falling off the pension teat through poor performance) are the real issues here, and it has nothing to do with referee performance on the field.

No.

If GB were as good as they were shouting prior to the game, it would’ve never gone down to the last play.

Everyone is looking at Jennings leverage and body position and thinks well he must have caught it. Where in the rules does it say you have to have either of those?? Its a non factor.

Just because it look and felt like an INT, doesnt mean it was one based on the rules. Again, I ask anyone who disagrees to show me a screenshot where Jennings has 2 hands on the ball, and Tate doesnt. Jennings could have ripped the ball away, but he obviously couldnt because Tate was holding it…

The real refs need to be let back in, working on their old contract until a new one is negotiated. But Seattle was screwed plenty, too.

In the old days of US labor the player’s union would not play the games to support the Refs union but that is ancient labor history.

The replacement Refs are trying their best at a job they are not prepared for.

What did we expect? Expect more of the same.

Goodell gets all the blame for this mess.