2025 Season | Week 16 | Thursday Night Gameday Chatter Thread | Los Angeles Rams @ Seattle Seahawks | 12/18/2025

boozeman said:

I missed all the fun, but it looks like the NFL cannot deny the referee issue anymore.

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In this video you can hear the whistle at about 13 seconds, and there was no recovery at that point.

And when the whistle happened it was right after the ball hit the ground which would be consistent with the ref blowing the whistle for an incomplete pass. It happened exactly at the point of the "incompletion".

There's no way the whistle didn't blow. It clearly did.

As far as whether it's a backwards pass or not, he's standing at the five when he throws it and it hits the defensive lineman's helmet around the 4 and a half. I'm still not convinced it was a backwards pass.

Honestly I think the most disturbing part of this is that Seattle was rewarded for a clear fuckup play on a technicality that was so close that people can't even agree that it technically happened the way it was ruled.

Genghis Khan said:

As far as whether it's a backwards pass or not, he's standing at the five when he throws it and it hits the defensive lineman's helmet around the 4 and a half. I'm still not convinced it was a backwards pass.

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But it only matters where the ball is, and it looks like the ball starts just outside the four and hits the Ram in the head just inside the 5.

Honestly I think the most disturbing part of this is that Seattle was rewarded for a clear fuckup play on a technicality that was so close that people can't even agree that it technically happened the way it was ruled.

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Yep. And they need to close the loophole on that rule that it basically makes no difference if the whistle is blown on that type of play. So they're saying the whistle doesn't matter on a close play like that. So if I'm on defense and I see that happen, and an offensive player is going for the recovery, I can just knock the shit out of him to keep him from recovering even if the whistle has blown? No way, you know that would be a personal foul. It's insanity.

Genghis Khan said:

It would suck for Seattle if it truly was a backwards pass, but we've seen it a million times where they blew the whistle and by rule the play is dead at that point and nothing happens after that. It should be at best no recovery at the time of the whistle and no conversion.

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I wouldn't feel bad. In no form did that play go as Seattle intended. They just happened to have the guy pick up the ball at the end. They didn't earn 2 points in any way.

Cowboysrock55 said:

I wouldn't feel bad. In no form did that play go as Seattle intended. They just happened to have the guy pick up the ball at the end. They didn't earn 2 points in any way.

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Agreed.

Like I said last night, that okay is indicative of how the league has completely lost the plot with reviews and how the game is being officiated.

They're basically just winging it.

bbgun said:

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Well coached. Imagine that.

bbgun said:

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We absolutely have to spread premium resources around in order to have talent in different position groups.

Genghis Khan said:

Well coached. Imagine that.

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And an elite GM.

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