Stupid Yellow Flags: A Football Apocalypse

[UpstatePanther]

well written PhillyB. i do appreciate your unique flair in these threads. i always feel... cultured... after reading one of these. haha. the Mesopotamian Myth thread was amazing too.

[rayzor]

hochuli's crew made no mistakes in that game.

i'll say it again, they made no mistakes.

they set out to do the very thing they did...level the playing field, taking away the home advantage by calling the game in favor of the away team.

this is something that hochuli's crew has done for years. i mentioned this and provided a link from a couple years back that showed it in one of the threads talking about the bad officiating. his crew not only has been one of the most flag happy crews in the league, but is consistently among the very worse in regards to flags being heavily in favor of the away team.

hochuli is a lawyer with the power of a judge on the playing field. this is what you get. a ref who feels his job is to make the playing field level between home and away teams.

it might be just me, but that's not the refs job. call the game. don't try to manage the game.

this is why more challenges need to be made available and every play should be challengeable. some would say that takes away from the game, but officiating like we just witnessed takes away more from it.

 

[GRWatcher]

hochuli's crew made no mistakes in that game.

i'll say it again, they made no mistakes.

they set out to do the very thing they did...level the playing field, taking away the home advantage by calling the game in favor of the away team.

this is something that hochuli's crew has done for years. i mentioned this and provided a link from a couple years back that showed it in one of the threads talking about the bad officiating. his crew not only has been one of the most flag happy crews in the league, but is consistently among the very worse in regards to flags being heavily in favor of the away team.

hochuli is a lawyer with the power of a judge on the playing field. this is what you get. a ref who feels his job is to make the playing field level between home and away teams.

it might be just me, but that's not the refs job. call the game. don't try to manage the game.

this is why more challenges need to be made available and every play should be challengeable. some would say that takes away from the game, but officiating like we just witnessed takes away more from it.

 

They are also notorious for not calling o-line holding. I'll never forget one flag Hochuli picked up, saying it wasn't holding because Peppers was "powering through". wtf

[Stickman2]

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A customer of mine said that was the first time the Panthers beat Ed Hockuli

[Doc Holiday]

PhillyB bringing it!

[SCP]

PhillyB for president 

[Moorgan]

PhillyB for president 

to the TinderBox stat! 

Although imagining PhillyB on stage at the Presidential debates makes me smile.

[panthers55]

it seemed to me the saints player did some magic to make him trip, which is also illegal. should've been ejected imo.

of course, these kinds of things are much easier to swallow in the context of a fair game. had it not capped off three and a half quarters of just awful, awful calls it probably would've been easier to take. as it was fans had reached a tipping point. i've never heard such sustained booing through the tv before... people were pissed.

I was one of those pissed fans booing as loud as I could. I'm not a conspiracy theory guy but it was hard to see it any other way. Every time  we stopped them there was another penalty to extend the drive. It was ridiculous.

[NanuqoftheNorth]

The 2015 Carolina Panthers are 3-0 not because they've done everything right, but because they've shown the resiliency to win even when everything goes wrong. Championship teams have the enviable quality of pulling out wins that should never have happened. The 2015 Carolina Panthers did that on Sunday.

This^^^

The Panthers (as a team) now have the internal fortitude to power through adversity instead of folding under pressure.  A quality many players have had through the years, but something the team as a whole has been lacking since 2003.

[dldove77]

Someone please make PanthersUnited read this OP. This is eloquent. This is how you post.

[w280sax]

One thing I noticed was that on the bad spots, the line judges were simply not in position to spot the ball.  When the saints were given the benefit of the spot on 4th and 1, both line judges were 5 yards down the field.  They had little chance to make a good spot due to being out of position.

There was also a play where the panthers threw a ball into the end zone and maybe there was pi but the ref completely turned his head away from the play while the ball was approaching like he was afraid the ball would hit him.

[Newtcase]

PhillyB your energy and effort towards communicating your insights is to be applauded.  Thank you for the quality reads!

[PhillyB]

PhillyB your energy and effort towards communicating your insights is to be applauded.  Thank you for the quality reads!

thanks for reading them!

[Kevin Greene]

Love that movie, had no idea the chaos on the set. No doubt contributed to the edge the actors had on screen.

As far as calls on the Panthers: same ol', same ol'....

 

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