One big silver lining will come from last night's officiating disaster

[Sam Mills Fan]

Officials are really going to overcorrect for Cam for at least the next few weeks if not the whole season. If a Niner so much as breathes on Cam in 9 days, they're going to throw the flag. Now we could probably beat the Niners with Joe Webb playing QB and I doubt any Niner gets much pressure on Cam anyway, but just watch. Refs have a long history of overcorrecting worse than Gano's second field goal try to win the game last night when they have egg on their faces.

[Mr. Scot]

I'm not absolutely convinced we can count on that.

I'd like it if it did happen.

[Squirrel]

We have the no respect card back. Ron will use this the rest of the season. 

[Toolbox]

Yeah cam has taken bad beatings and last year not even one personal foul called in his favor.. why change it now??

[truthjuice]

I'm not sure unless Richardson is behind the scenes paying some people. If, for 9 days, enough hell is raised then maybe. 

[Vampire the buffet slayer]

6 minutes ago, Squirrel said:

We have the no respect card back. Ron will use this the rest of the season. 

This cannot be more correct.

[Sam Mills Fan]

5 minutes ago, Toolbox said:

Yeah cam has taken bad beatings and last year not even one personal foul called in his favor.. why change it now??

The hits hadn't happened in a massively watched nationally televised game like this before. Everyone is talking about the no-call killshots in the media today.

[ItsNotGonnaBeAlright]

5 minutes ago, Toolbox said:

Yeah cam has taken bad beatings and last year not even one personal foul called in his favor.. why change it now??

Because last year it wasn't on national tv in the only game that has been played done to the reigning league MVP by the defending Super Bowl champions and therefore has dominated headlines for 24 hours.

That said, I doubt anything is done becauseits ultimately the officials who are at fault and they get every excuse imaginable said for them.

[Toolbox]

Just now, ItsNotGonnaBeAlright said:

Because last year it wasn't on national tv in the only game that has been played done to the reigning league MVP by the defending Super Bowl champions and therefore has dominated headlines for 24 hours.

That said, I doubt anything is done becauseits ultimately the officials who are at fault and they get every excuse imaginable said for them.

 

4 minutes ago, Sam Mills Fan said:

The hits hadn't happened in a massively watched nationally televised game like this before. Everyone is talking about the no-call killshots in the media today.

 

Sad it took a national game to even talk about this now..

[LinvilleGorge]

Yeah, that's what I've been telling myself - starting out 0-1 and having Cam take a beating will be worth it in the long run IF it means he gets fair protection from the refs moving forward.  I'm not at all convinced that will actually happen though.

I am glad though that it happened on primetime national TV and the media has really jumped on it and not just the sports media.  This is getting pretty widespread attention and they're really taking the NFL to task for their hypocrisy.  If anything is going to get Cam fair treatment, this is it.  If it doesn't happen after this, it'll never happen.

It's insane to me that we're having to hope and beg that our MVP QB actually gets protection from the NFL after watching guys like Manning, Brees, and Brady get coddled for years.  If those guys simply take a hard hit, it's a penalty.  It doesn't have to be technically illegal, if they just plain take a hard, legal hit there's a good chance a flag will fly.

[truthjuice]

29 minutes ago, Squirrel said:

We have the no respect card back. Ron will use this the rest of the season. 

I sure hope so. Carolina with a chip and a sour taste over the SB is dangerous. 

[tiger7_88]

33 minutes ago, Mr. Scot said:

I'm not absolutely convinced we can count on that.

I sure as hell ain't convinced.

They've been allowing him to take a beating for 27 straight games now with no calls, why should they all of a sudden think they're wrong now?

The NFL gave us their "Oops!" today by deigning to allow us to know that, yes, Brandon Marshall's hit was cheap as fug.  They may think that's plenty.