OT: New Way to Lose for Lions

If refs mark that short, the Lions get one more hurried play. Since the refs screwed up, the lions get punished. Makes perfect sense. Another quirk in the rule book found.

was just screwed without being kissed on Fox...

Regardless of college or pro, technology allows for easy investigation of a play. There should never be a situation of what the original call was, in real time, to dictate the result. It’s archaic at best.

and fuck trump

How does the NFL design a rule entirely that bases the outcome of a game by the referee judgement on the field? If they don't call TD, then no review, no run off. Of course then it'd have to somehow take less than 8 seconds for the refs and the players to set up again for the next play, but then to avoid all of these non-football related things deciding the result of a game, DON'T HAVE A FUCKING RUN OFF. How about if there's 10 or less seconds in the game, the clock goes to 0:00 and the offense gets one play. The timing to spot the ball is not the players' responsibility, so in any case what's most "fair" is to give the benefit of the doubt to the players and not the refs.

NFL hates the Lions all rules are against them.

I've always thought it was dumb that some aspects of a play could be reviewed but not others. Tate is clearly held before the ball gets there, is the rationale that the review official is capable of seeing when a player is down on a bang-bang play (indisputably), but is incapable of seeing that a receiver is interfereee with? I've never understood that.

But a weak holding call on Atlanta kept the drive alive. So, yeah.

Because of course in NFC East land we want to see the Eagles, not two 2-0 teams.

T'any rate, the replay call sounds as egregious as it looked on the NFL.com game summary.  I get there can be reasonable disagreements on whether he was down, but WTF is there 10 second run off for a replay?!  Last time I checked, the clock doesn't run when the ref is under the hood.  Why does every strange, non-sensical rule have to bit the Lions in the ass?

Such bullshit

It's a long season. Lions are still looking good and we have a shot at making the playoffs and potentially winning the division

And now I am sure sports center is going to link it with other times people in the state of Michigan were upset about a call about a ball spot.

You have 1st and goal at the 1, and you DON'T try a run play?  Not even once?  How about a QB sneak, with everyone ending the play standing right in formation to run the next play if Stafford doesn't get in.

Terrible.

but there's always the Tigers. Maybe by 2020 or so.

who gives a fuck?

as it happened. But if he wasn't touched before crossing the goal line with the ball, why would it matter whether Tate's  knee or elbow was down before the ball crossed the plane of the goal line. I mean there is a contradiction in going down when you make a catch elsewhere on the field and then are not touched down. In those circumstances, the clock isn't stopped until the whistle is blown.

The argument here is that because the play was reviewed and it became a dead ball situation because it had to be reviewed, the play now goes from a live ball to a dead ball situation punishing the defense because the offense gets another chance to run a play without the benefit of a timeout.

But the Lions didn't stop the clock, the officials stopped play for an official review of a TD call. If the call isn't reviewed, it's ruled a TD and the Falcons have 8 seconds left to make a play to win.

The rule application is based on the contention that this is only a technical dead ball call, and that stopping the clock for a review of any kind ought not to give the offense additional time to line up before the clock resumes. But if there is a penalty on either team, the same issue would apply. The clock is stopped and the penalty would be marked off closer or farther away from the goal line with the clock stopped before the ball is put back in play allowing both sides to line up.

The defense benefits when it fouls in the endzone because the foul prevents a possible catch and score. And this penalty is especially beneficial in the last seconds regardless of how close the ball is placed ner the goal line, because the issue is as much about time as opportunity to score no matter where the ball is placed.

And in this case the Lions were punished for making a successful play that was called a TD and then overturned. Because of that, the run-off should be overturned as well. The Lions weren't given a chance to make another play call because the officials took that chance away with their own call, not the Lions failure to convert. The conversion was overturned.