Santana Moss calls out officiating

[ThomasTomasz]

For all the talk about how the replacement refs would kill the game a season ago, the actual officials haven't fared much better in 2013. The most recent example came Sunday night when the Redskins were jobbed out of one down because the heads linesman incorrectly told coach Mike Shanahan the team had a first down during a late fourth-quarter drive.
Three days before that, an official literally ran around Steelers coach Mike Tomlin, who had camped out in the white painted area that separates the bench from the playing field, during a Ravens kickoff return. You may have heard something about this.

In both instances, the league later conceded that the officials erred. In the Giants-Redskins game, the clock should have been stopped to communicate the actual down to each team. In the Steelers-Ravens get-together, Tomlin should have been flagged for unsportsmanlike conduct for being in the white area during the return.

For Redskins wide receiver Santana Moss, who has been in the league since 2001, the officiating has hit rock bottom this season.

“It's probably been worse this whole year as a total, not just this team," he said, via the Washington Post. "But I've watched a lot of football this year. It's been the worst that I've ever seen.”

Moss also addressed one of our biggest pet peeves: What is and isn't a catch. The premise seemed eminently straightforward as a kid. It required neither a physics degree nor a super slo-mo high definition camera. That's all changed in recent years.

“You've got guys ... catching balls and they take two steps and they get tackled,” Moss said. “The ball come out after they hit the ground. It's no good. And you have another guy do it the next week, he gets the catch.

"Come on. Somebody have to change that rule. I hate the calls now where you see guys -- and this is mostly receivers I'm looking at -- catching a ball and you fall out of bounds, and you have a [defensive back], now … you're out of bounds and the guy is still swiping at the ball. And now the guy hits the ball and it bobbles in your hand but you still have the ball on you — no catch. Someone has to change that.

“I understand [there are] so many things being changed," Moss continued. "But at the end of the day, some of that stuff is crap. So hopefully somebody who's in a higher position that can really watch this season alone and see some of the stuff that's being called and hasn't been called, they can go and try to critique that because it's been the worst by far since I've been in the league.”

The man makes a good point.

Good news, Santana: VP of Officials Dean Blandino agrees with you. Last week, after officials blew a call in the Week 12 Panthers-Dolphins game, he conceded, "We've got to work and strive to be more consistent" when it comes to what does and does not constitute a catch.

As we noted at the time, the implication is that the officials don't fully understand what a catch is. In a game where the forward pass is an integral part of the action, this revelation seems problematic.

http://www.cbssports.com/nfl/eye-on...ciating-its-been-the-worst-that-ive-ever-seen

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Someone's got to do it. The biggest one is about what is a catch, and that's where the NFL has a huge rulebook that needs to be cut down and more concise.

 

[MrBill]

The Redskins got jobbed last week. No two ways about it.

 

[red33]

what is a catch and PI.

I expect a PI almost everytime a medium to deep pass is thrown. If it is that rampant then the PI rule itself must be broken right?

 

[kmanharris]

Remember that time me and W2B told everyone here the "actual" refs are just as bad the the "replacement" refs?

Fuck you all who said otherwise.

 

[Aso]

Remember that time me and W2B told everyone here the "actual" refs are just as bad the the "replacement" refs?

Fuck you all who said otherwise.

The replacement refs were worse. They looked generally confused most of the time and the game just looked like too much for them sometimes and that caused a lot of long pauses between plays while they tried to figure out what the right call was suppose to be. Don't you remember this:

Regular officials are still bad though.

 

[KINGOFOOTBALL]

Remember that time me and W2B told everyone here the "actual" refs are just as bad the the "replacement" refs?

Fuck you all who said otherwise.

*ahem*....I recall insisting they keep the replacement refs and taking a huge leap forward by getting full time refs. Goodell blew a huge opportunity to fix a major flaw in the game.

 

[Villain]

#RobotUmpsNow :runaway:

 

[KINGOFOOTBALL]

#RobotUmpsNow :runaway:

They can deliver packages for Amazon M-Sat everybody wins.

 

[kmanharris]

The replacement refs were worse. They looked generally confused most of the time and the game just looked like too much for them sometimes and that caused a lot of long pauses between plays while they tried to figure out what the right call was suppose to be. Don't you remember this:

Regular officials are still bad though.

And how many times this season have we seen some downright AWFUL calls? I'm not going to get into it again because there was a whole thread about it but the replacement refs were no different than the current refs, who also look confused all the time.

 

[jms493]

I am just waiting for the W2B response...

 

[Houston]

So...is Santana Moss supposed the be the straw that broke the camel's back?

 

[ThunderHorse]

what is a catch and PI.

I expect a PI almost everytime a medium to deep pass is thrown. If it is that rampant then the PI rule itself must be broken right?

Truthfully it's starting to get to the point that watching the referee blunders are almost part of the show.

The Colts Texans game earlier this year was just nuts. And then last week Delanie Walker caught a football, was tackled, the ground forced a fumble, and the catch was ruled incomplete. Erik Walden went straight Gangsta and headbutted this same man (after ripping his helmet off) 3 weeks ago and the officials didn't eject him.

I just sit back, smile, and wait for the incompetence to show itself because honestly it's starting to become comical.

 

[Point Blank]

Booo, thought this was going to be a "Santana Moss calls out RGIII thread"..

 

[ThomasTomasz]

*ahem*....I recall insisting they keep the replacement refs and taking a huge leap forward by getting full time refs. Goodell blew a huge opportunity to fix a major flaw in the game.

I believe they have the ability to hire full-time refs now, but they just haven't done it. The NFL only has themselves to blame at this point.

 

[Argath]

Booo, thought this was going to be a "Santana Moss calls out RGIII thread"..

Maybe you should read the entire thread title next time :dd: