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September 28, 2020 at 3:04 am #121815

zn
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Jeff Darlington@JeffDarlington
The Bills are fun, I get it. I love watching Josh Allen, too. But the Rams got robbed on that garbage pass interference call. Game was over.

How many here feel that way too? It came up a bit in the reactions thread, but I am curious to see what people think so I am making a dedicated thread.

My own feelings are complicated–IMO Wms brought a lot of that on himself by maintaining contact after 5 yards. In terms of a questionable flag deciding a game, enh, Rams have gotten breaks when it comes to that and have been burned when it comes to that. IMO that kind of stuff evens out across time. But either way it doesn’t matter. In this game, it should never have gotten down to that. To me the far worse moment was giving up the 1st on 3rd and 22. That is a bad reminder of last year’s 3rd and 16. That stuff should not be happening.

(Don’t get me wrong though, I am not bummed by that game. They showed so much heart coming back from 25 down and that is my dominant feeling about that game. Someone already said it was like the regular season Titans game in 99 and I agree–they lost but showed incredible heart and resilience in the process. I just bring up the flag issue because it’s a natural talking point.)

September 28, 2020 at 3:55 am #121817

Agamemnon
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I agree with your take, zn. It was a tough call. But for the Rams to come back from so far down, that made the game for me. I wanted the Rams to win, but the PI call does not ruin the game for me.

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September 28, 2020 at 10:38 am #121825

wv
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Well, as a senior-citizen-fan, I just take a philo-sophical view of football-flags in general. I just dont spend more than a few seconds thinking about whether this or that call was legit or not. My brain just doesnt value that type of synapse-work.

I’m waaaay more interested in the general flow of the games, the tactics, the trajectories, etc.

The really bad calls are few and far between, and about half the time, they will go in the Rams favor.

I spent three seconds looking at the call, and it looked like a penalty to me, but i didnt dwell on it.

A defense that gives up the big plays, in the Clutch, that the Rams gave up in that game, has a serious problem.

An offense that comes back the way the Rams did in that game, is seriously dangerous.

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September 28, 2020 at 11:01 am #121828

zn
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wv wrote:

defense that gives up the big plays, in the Clutch, that the Rams gave up in that game, has a serious problem.

An offense that comes back the way the Rams did in that game, is seriously dangerous.

A consensus is forming.

September 28, 2020 at 7:29 pm #121840

Zooey
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I pretty much gave up complaining about flags in the 70s. The Tom Mack penalty sent me over the edge, and there were one or two others, and eventually, after losing to the Vikings and Cowboys enough times in the Championship, I just got over it. I agree with wv on this. The Rams lost because they let the refs decide the game. You can’t do that. If it comes down to one call, you didn’t Win. Stop them. Where was the defense the entire first half? Force a punt on any one of those drives, and the flag doesn’t matter. They had them 3rd and 22. Can you not stop them from gaining 22 yards in two plays? You have to be able to do that.

I don’t listen to whiners from other teams, and I don’t listen to whiners who like my favorite team, either. Not any more. Crying foul about a blown call is no solace. I said, “The Rams woulda won if…” a handful of times when I was a teenager, and none of that ever made me feel like my emotions did anything positive for me in that situation.

September 28, 2020 at 8:12 pm #121842

JackPMiller
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Zooey wrote:

I pretty much gave up complaining about flags in the 70s. The Tom Mack penalty sent me over the edge, and there were one or two others, and eventually, after losing to the Vikings and Cowboys enough times in the Championship, I just got over it. I agree with wv on this. The Rams lost because they let the refs decide the game. You can’t do that. If it comes down to one call, you didn’t Win. Stop them. Where was the defense the entire first half? Force a punt on any one of those drives, and the flag doesn’t matter. They had them 3rd and 22. Can you not stop them from gaining 22 yards in two plays? You have to be able to do that.

I don’t listen to whiners from other teams, and I don’t listen to whiners who like my favorite team, either. Not any more. Crying foul about a blown call is no solace. I said, “The Rams woulda won if…” a handful of times when I was a teenager, and none of that ever made me feel like my emotions did anything positive for me in that situation.

I have not. I still remember losing to the Vikings in the NFC in the playoffs in the pouring rain.
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