I am not lonely in my disinclination to indite most the officiating.
Writing most officiating is digit of the things I've institute most arduous as a sports reporter. No digit ever leaves a mettlesome intellection the officiating was good, but seldom is the officiating so singularly intense that it becomes the dominating thought of the game. ...Monday period was different. About the instance the officials couldn't verify whether or not the contestant saucer necessary to be kicked, it was country the officiating was feat to be the earth conversation most this game.
— Danny O'Neill of The metropolis Times
My initial disinclination was supported on the emotion of inaugural Pandora's box. How some games could you go finished and parse the officiating and the calls to particular a aggroup that got the brief modify of the stick?
But rattling some games hit as some gross examples of intense officiating as the digit we're conversation most here.
In reddened of the Monday Night Madness between the Seahawks and the Packers, we should countenance at added mettlesome that was strained negatively by officiating.
That mettlesome occurred on Sun Night Football between the Patriots and the Ravens.
A aggregation of the sound on Sun period mass the Patriots' disputable 31-30 expiration to the Ravens pertained to the officiating in the game. Some Patriots players change they were on the criminal modify of a aggregation of intense calls, but undergo it is something they can't control.
Brandon Spikes took to Twitter to expose his frustrations with the "zebras."
The test account in the incase reason says the Patriots were punished 10 nowadays for 83 yards, patch the Ravens were punished 14 nowadays for 135 yards. But as we every know, the incase reason never tells the full story.
So what happened on the penalties? Whose penalties were more justified, and which penalties had the most possibleness effect on the outcome of the game?
To encounter out, we'll hit to go finished apiece penalisation digit by one. There were 24 of them total.
Pull up a chair, clutch a drinkable and intend comfortable. This could verify a minute.
Scenario: First quarter, 5:02 remaining.
What they called: Illegal country in the backwards on Patriots backwards Rob Ninkovich.
What actually happened: Video inconclusive.
Was the penalisation valid?: Video inconclusive.
Consequence: The Patriots advise the intend from their possess nine-yard distinction instead of the 18.
Scenario: First quarter, 3:10 remaining, 1st-and-10, Patriots ball on their possess 49-yard line.
What they called: Personal dishonor on antitank face Haloti Ngata, 15-yard penalty.
What actually happened: Ngata lands on crowning of moneyman after the backwards has initiated a slide. NBC shrink Chris Collinsworth said he wouldn't hit tangled a flag, but to the honor of the law, this is a legal penalty.
But man, I empathise for Ngata. It staleness be hornlike to kibosh over 330 pounds of strength on a dime.
Was this penalisation valid?: Yes.
Consequence: Patriots advise the ball to the Ravens' 29-yard line, with the penalisation tacked onto the modify of the run. The Patriots would go on to squawk a earth goal.
Scenario: First quarter, 2:14 remaining, 2nd-and-8, Patriots ball on the Ravens' 27-yard line.
What they called: Offensive retentive on Patriots dripless modify Rob Gronkowski, five-yard penalty.
What actually happened: Gronkowski got a stop of conception of Upshaw's correct margin aggrandize in the prototypal inclose at the saucer of initial contact, but is kinda hurried most effort his safekeeping backwards inside.
This drew a interpret from Collinsworth, who could feature null but, "That's...oookaaaay?"
It's his employ to speech most sports, and he's a past sport player, but was mitt unarticulate by the call.
Was the penalisation valid?: No.
Consequence: The endeavor was conception of a program that stalled out, which led to the Patriots sinking for a 49-yard earth goal. But that wasn't the poorest penalisation the refs would call in this series.
Scenario: First quarter, 1:48 remaining, 3rd-and-11, Patriots ball on the Ravens 30-yard line.
What they called: Offensive transfer trouble on panoramic earpiece statesman Edelman, 10-yard penalty.
What actually happened: Edelman came backwards for the ball on the mitt distinction and pushed soured of Ravens antitank backwards Cary reverend a taste in the process.
It should be noted also that reverend was not state the ball, with his backwards completely overturned to the play, and had an limb draped crossways statesman Edelman's neck.
If anything, this should hit been counteractive penalties. The equal officials hit had a hornlike instance occupation transfer interference, antitank retentive and banned occurrence penalties. This is not the terminal instance we'll center most digit in this game.
Was this penalisation valid?: No.
Consequence: 10-yard penalisation negates a would-be prototypal down, gives Patriots 3rd-and-21, still unnatural to squawk a earth goal.
Scenario: Second quarter, 15:00 remaining, 3rd-and-6, Ravens ball on their possess 22-yard line.
What they called: Defensive transfer trouble on backwards Jerod Mayo, two-yard penalty.
What actually happened: In the region frame, Ray playwright is within the five-yard cushion, patch Mayo, who has his assistance on Rice, is meet on the added lateral of it. The trouble seems to become into endeavor when the ball is in the air.
After the play, playwright is informing the refs that Mayo had a stop of his jersey. Mayo appears to hit his safekeeping soured Mayo in the ordinal frame, but it's impracticable to verify from the camera seek provided and we don't intend a replay.
Was this penalisation valid?: Not conclusive.
Consequence: Penalty negates a third-down stop; Ravens garner up the prototypal downbound on a intend that ended in a touchdown.
Scenario: Second quarter, 14:24 remaining, 2nd-and-6, Ravens ball on their possess 32-yard line.
What they called: Offensive retentive on panoramic earpiece Anquan Boldin, 10-yard penalty.
What actually happened: Anquan Boldin manus the limb of Patriots cornerback Devin McCourty, grabbing him around the arrest of his margin pads patch the cornerback turns to essay and attain the tackle.
Was this penalisation valid?: Yes.
Consequence: 10-yard penalisation negates the run, Ravens mitt with 2nd-and-16.
Scenario: Second quarter, 12:11 remaining, 1st-and-10, Ravens ball on the Patriots 49-yard line.
What they called: False advise on Ravens protect histrion Yanda, five-yard penalty.
What actually happened: Joe Flacco got Patriots antitank face Vince Wilfork to advise preceding to the snap, and thanks to the newborn association conception most simulated advise penalties, some shitting by an opprobrious footballer is thoughtful conservativist when a antitank footballer also moves.
Was this penalisation valid?: No.
Consequence: Five-yard penalisation leaves Ravens with 1st-and-15, no endeavor is negated.
Scenario: Second quarter, 9:45 remaining, 1st-and-10, Patriots ball on their possess 20-yard line.
What they called: False advise on panoramic earpiece statesman Edelman, five-yard penalty.
What actually happened: No saucer in adding the snapshots since you can't attending his movements, but Edelman clearly moved before the snap, reacting to the shitting of dripless modify Kellen colonist to his left.
Was this penalisation valid?: Yes.
Consequence: Patriots are presented a 1st-and-15, would still boot on the drive.
Scenario: Second quarter, 1:21 remaining, 1st-and-10, Patriots ball on their possess 31-yard line.
What they called: Defensive retentive on backwards Danelle Ellerbe, five-yard penalty.
What actually happened: Gronkowski runs correct into the linebacker, initiating occurrence at around the five-yard evaluation beyond the distinction of scrimmage.
From there, Ellerbe grabs Gronkowski's jersey and tosses him to the ground.
Even if Gronkowski initiated contact, it's Ellerbe's employ to ready his safekeeping off Gronkowski's jersey. If you grab, they'll call it every time—well, unless it's the equal refs.
Was this penalisation valid?: Yes.
Consequence: The five-yard penalisation gave the Patriots 1st-and-10 at the 36-yard line. The Patriots would go on to reason a touchdown.
Scenario: Second quarter, :35 remaining, 1st-and-10, Patriots ball on their possess 49-yard line.
What they called: Illegal occurrence on cornerback Cary Williams, five-yard penalty.
What actually happened: The flushed distinction is the modify of the five-yard window. Williams bumped Patriots earpiece Brandon histrion after the earpiece got him to go the criminal content on a threefold move. Since moneyman had not still free the ball, this was banned occurrence and not transfer interference.
Was this penalisation valid?: Yes.
Consequence: Patriots intend added prototypal downbound soured penalty, and touched up to the Ravens' 46-yard distinction in the process.
Scenario: Second quarter, :07 remaining, saucer after touchdown.
What they called: Face cover on backwards Courtney Upshaw, 15-yard penalisation implemented between downs.
What actually happened: Video inconclusive.
Was this penalisation valid?: Video inconclusive.
Consequence: The 15-yard penalisation was essentially inconsequential, since it came at the modify of the half and the Ravens kneeled on the ball to beam the mettlesome to halftime.
Scenario: Third quarter, 14:03 remaining, 2nd-and-8, Ravens ball on their possess 37-yard line.
What they called: Defensive retentive on cornerback Kyle Arrington.
What actually happened: There was a lowercase iffy occurrence downbound the field, with Arrington's assistance on Boldin's shoulder, but there's no tugging participating in some of the frames here, and there weren't some to be institute in the replay.
Was this penalisation valid?: No.
Consequence: The five-yard penalisation gives the Ravens a firm ordered of downs.
Scenario: Third quarter, 8:49 remaining, 1st-and-10, Patriots ball on the Ravens' 39-yard line.
What they called: Personal dishonor on country physiologist Pollard, 15-yard penalty.
What actually happened: Logan Mankins was participating in a aggregation of scrapping on Sun period and gave a lowercase taste of a New country to Pollard after the endeavor had ended.
With every the extracurricular state that had condemned locate to this point, I'm meet shocked this was the prototypal individualized dishonor called.
Was this penalisation valid?: This is highly debatable. The artefact things had absent to this point, it should hit been counteractive penalties.
Consequence: Patriots front to the 21-yard line, serving them reason a touchdown on the drive.
Scenario: Third quarter, 6:48 remaining, 1st-and-10, Ravens ball on their possess 20-yard line.
What they called: False advise on panoramic earpiece Torrey Smith, five-yard penalty.
What actually happened: Joe Flacco was checking the endeavor at the line, and Torrey staleness hit incorrect it for a behave count.
This is added digit where a concealment clutch does nothing. Just consortium me on this one.
Was this penalisation valid?: Yes.
Consequence: Ravens dillydally discover on the drive, unnatural to punt.
Scenario: Third quarter, 5:54 remaining, 2nd-and-6, Ravens ball on the Patriots 37-yard line.
What they called: Offensive retentive on protect histrion Yanda, 10-yard penalty.
What actually happened: Vince Wilfork gets up low Yanda's blazonry with a pleasant advise advise and then rips backwards crossways his body, forcing Yanda to twine his blazonry around the bounteous antitank tackle.
Was this penalisation valid?: Yes.
Consequence: The 10-yard penalisation was added in a program where the Ravens were unnatural to punt.
Scenario: Third quarter, 5:15 remaining, 4th-and-15, Ravens ball on their possess 47-yard line.
What they called: Neutral regularize infraction on backwards Niko Koutouvides.
What actually happened: Hard to verify meet whether he was unsmooth up in the viewless regularize here.
Was this penalisation valid?: Video inconclusive.
Consequence: Ravens re-try the punt.
Scenario: Third quarter, 2:53 remaining, 1st-and-10, Patriots ball on the Ravens 45-yard line.
What they called: Defensive retentive on cornerback Jimmy Smith.
What actually happened: Jimmy adventurer slips in coverage, and to compensate, he reaches up for Lloyd's margin aggrandize (circled). histrion water downbound after existence grabbed. It's blurred whether his dropping is a candid termination of existence grabbed.
Lloyd did a beatific delude of the hold, which wasn't every that egregious. Smith's occurrence was within the five-yard window, but I'm pretty trusty you can't meet clutch a man by the margin aggrandize and intercommunicate him to the ground.
Was this penalisation valid?: Yes.
Consequence: Patriots front the ball to the 40-yard distinction and garner up added prototypal down.
Scenario: Third quarter, 1:32 remaining, 3rd-and-3, Patriots ball on the Ravens' 33-yard line.
What they called: Personal dishonor on country Ed Reed, extra roughness, 15-yard penalisation tacked onto the modify of the play.
What actually happened: Reed led with his helmet, which struck Branch's helmet after he prefabricated the catch. This digit is a no-brainer. The association is noise downbound on the enforcement of these hits.
Was this penalisation valid?: Yes.
Consequence: The 15-yard penalisation moves the Patriots to the Ravens 18-yard line. New England would resolve for a earth goal.
Scenario: Fourth quarter, 6:55 remaining, 1st-and-10, Ravens ball on their possess 20-yard line.
What they called: Offensive retentive on protect histrion Yanda, five-yard penalty.
What actually happened: Jermaine choreographer vex Yanda inside, and the protect grabbed the antitank lineman's limb and threw him to the ground. Yanda was a retentive organisation on Sun night, and every of them were valid.
Was this penalisation valid?: Yes.
Consequence: 10-yard penalisation negates an half pass, brings up 1st-and-20.
Scenario: Fourth quarter, 6:19 remaining, 2nd-and-14, Ravens ball on their possess 16-yard line.
What they called: Defensive retentive on cornerback Devin McCourty.
What actually happened: This was digit of the poorest calls of the night. adventurer runs a unfathomable ornament and McCourty stays with him step for stride. The penalisation was titled probable as a termination of inclose threesome in the above sequence.
This induced a two-word salutation from Collinsworth: "Wow...wow..."
Was this penalisation valid?: No.
Consequence: Five-yard penalisation gives the Ravens 1st-and-10 on their possess 21, when the incompletion would hit ordered up 3rd-and-14. The Ravens would go on to reason a touchdown on the drive.
Scenario: Fourth quarter, 4:15 remaining, 2nd-and-goal, Ravens ball on the Patriots' 10-yard line.
What they called: Defensive retentive on backwards Brandon Spikes.
What actually happened: Spikes gets a enthusiastic strike on Dennis Pitta in the five-yard window, ECM him soured his route. In inclose three, we crapper understandably wager that Spikes' safekeeping are substantially absent from Pitta as the dripless modify crosses the five-yard "window."
Was this penalisation valid?: No.
Consequence: This negated a profit by the Patriots and gave the Ravens a firm ordered of downs at the five-yard line. The rattling incoming endeavor was a touchdown.
Scenario: Fourth quarter, 2:28 remaining, 3rd-and-8, Patriots ball on their possess 32-yard line.
What they called: Illegal occurrence on Ravens cornerback Lardarius Webb.
What actually happened: There is definitely a penalisation here, but it's not for banned contact. The call should hit been antitank holding. economist understandably has a containerful of Welker's jersey as the ball is reaching in.
Was this penalisation valid?: Yes.
Consequence: Patriots intend 1st-and-10 on their possess 37-yard line.
Scenario: Fourth quarter, 2:23 remaining, 1st-and-10, Patriots ball on their possess 37-yard line.
What they called: Unsportsmanlike carry on nous railcar Evangelist Harbaugh.
What actually happened: Harbaugh went onto the earth disagreeable to call a timeout, and because the coaches were told not to intend carried absent with the officials, this is a penalty.
With the artefact the officiating has absent to this point, I don't blessed him.
Was this penalisation valid?: No.
Consequence: The 15-yard penalisation helps the Patriots front the ball into Ravens territory.
Scenario: Fourth quarter, :52 remaining, 3rd-and-9, Ravens ball on the Patriots 34-yard line.
What they called: Defensive transfer trouble on cornerback Devin McCourty.
What actually happened: No excuses on this one: McCourty got vex unfathomable and prefabricated artefact likewise such occurrence as the ball came in. This is the penalisation that iced the mettlesome for Baltimore, allowing it to squawk the earth content in the test seconds to intend it.
Was this penalisation valid?: Yes.
Consequence: Ravens intend 1st-and-goal from the Patriots 7-yard line.
Wrap-up: Two of the Patriots' 10 penalties were deemed legal after boost review.
The Ravens sworn 10 legal penalties discover of their 14 total.
It doesn't verify a herb individual to amount discover the effect the officiating has had on these games, but an in-depth psychotherapy shows that the calls they prefabricated were scarce justified. Of the 24 penalties the officials called, meet 12 were valid.
After boost review, it's not far-fetched to feature the Patriots forfeited this mettlesome in super conception cod to slummy officiating.
If weekday night's collapse in metropolis wasn't beatific enough, the fact that the officials exclusive got 50 proportionality of the penalties correct in this bounteous mettlesome between AFC heavyweights should be the tipping point.
And meet envisage if we went in-depth to saucer discover the calls they missed.
Erik Frenz is the AFC East lead blogger for Bleacher Report. Be trusty to follow Erik on Twitter and "like" the AFC East blog on Facebook to ready up with every the updates. Unless given otherwise, every quotes are obtained firsthand.
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