The Refs robbed us

[countryboi]

they were pretty much making up rules on the fly. 

[PanthersATL]

Thinking more about the weird roughing the passer penalty where Burns didn't seem to hit anyone

 

But yeah, the fake spike/spike was weird

[mrcompletely11]

And so it begins…….

[Daddy_Uncle]

Don't put this one on the refs. That's weak. We play Rhule's style of pussified football and lost

[Snake]

Definitely a hack job but Rhule lost this one. 

[GoobyPls]

There were terrible calls all game. The penalty on Xavier Woods has awful and the holding on Ian Thomas was complete BS, it killed our drive.

[top dawg]

We did not play our best. The game wasn't necessarily coached well either, but the refs absolutely put the Browns into a position to win. They were dog sh¡t.

[GEM]

Just now, top dawg said:

We did not play our best. The game wasn't necessarily coached well either, but the refs absolutely put the Browns into a position to win. They were dog sh¡t.

It killed me. Tank is empty.

[45catfan]

Typical Rhule coached team, they show up in the 4th quarter to make it interesting.  Good teams play entire games, we play a good quarter just to keep the score respectable.

[hepcat]

9 minutes ago, Daddy_Uncle said:

Don't put this one on the refs. That's weak. We play Rhule's style of pussified football and lost

it was intentional grounding and the refs explanation actually explained why it WAS actually a foul. 

[Jrock88]

All penalties in the 4th should be reviewed...at least in the last 2 mins. Theres already 800 commercial breaks I don't mind waiting a bit longer for them to get the damn calls right

[coffee]

We were terrible for 90% of the game but this is one we should've stolen if the refs didn't screw up so much.  I don't think conspiracy but, man, we didn't need all the calls to go the wrong way.  I think this will be one the games I always remember as lost due to officials. 

(The other was years ago against Dallas when Pep blocked a FG and we won... only to have the refs call a penalty for running into the kicker.  The penalty should've been nullified by the fact that the ball was touched and, even though the replay obviously showed the ball changing trajectory when it hit Pep's hand, they claimed it wasn't clear and let it stand costing us the game.)

Refs are still in preseason form but they also called delay of game on us, but let the Browns go on at least two snaps that went just as long.

I think they'll end up acknowledging that the call against Burns and the intentional grounding no-call were mistakes.  A lot of good it will do, though.

[Pejorative Miscreant]

We played like poo and probably deserved to lose.  But we were ahead on the scoreboard and 1 and/or 2 calls by the refs at the end allowed the other team to change the scoreboard and ultimately the frustrating outcome. 

I can compartmentalize that and separate it from the fact that for much of the day the team lacked discipline and organization and were outplayed and over-matched. 

So its pretty much a poo of a Sunday afternoon and I am stone cold sober.   Depressing all around.

 

[lightsout]

No we earned this loss. From our offense being useless for the first quarter and really most of the first half to the defense being bad the whole day to Rhule not playing for a final first down to ice the game. We deserved this loss. The refs blew a call, but that isn't why we lost.