Encroachment penalties
I really hope that the officiating crew this week can manage to do the oh so difficult task of actually calling the encroachment penalties against Miami (OH) that they couldn't quite comprehend against Utah. When the center snapped the ball and the rest of the offensive line didn't move, it was because Utah's defensive line JUMPED OFFSIDE. It's obvious that the Michigan center is taught to snap the ball if someone on the defensive line jumps. For some reason both the officials and the announcers couldn't comprehend this. In fact, the retards that ESPN had doing the game were absolutely dumbfounded by it and couldn't figure out what Threet was yelling at the refs about after the second time. Are you kidding me? I really hope that RR got into the ear of the officials after the Utah game because the second time it happened it would have been a first down if the penalty had been properly called. My guess is that the officials weren't doing what every freaking defensive lineman is taught in pop warner: watch the damn ball and not the linemen. That's the only way to explain how that wasn't called TWICE. Terrible.
I apologize if this has already been posted, but 1) I'm new here and 2) I looked and didn't see it.
September 6th, 2008 at 10:11 AM ^
September 6th, 2008 at 10:42 AM ^