Genghis Khan
The worst version of myself
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Not certain if I should be encouraged or frightened.
Definitely frightened because Alarcon is not a player.
Not certain if I should be encouraged or frightened.
Connor Williams probably netted one or two unfair penalties because of his reputation for holding. I wonder if that has worked against the entire team as well. As for an actual ref conspiracy, that sounds like post-game loser talk.It's no coincidence that holding was the refs penalty of choice against us all last year.
I am telling you, they are trained to watch our LG, no matter who it is.Smith's technique is sloppy here with high pads and high hands, getting him in a position where he's belly to belly and making it more likely that a flag is thrown as the DL tries to move one way or the other.
I don't personally think it's a flag, it's extremely borderline and I've seen way worse ignored, but there is room to clean up his technique so he isn't getting himself into compromising positions like that.
In no way should that be a hold. It's not even borderline in my book. I see this and I seriously wonder what the hell the refs are thinking. If that's a hold you might as well just give up now because you're not winning football games. Because the refs don't call that against other teams.Smith's technique is sloppy here with high pads and high hands, getting him in a position where he's belly to belly and making it more likely that a flag is thrown as the DL tries to move one way or the other.
I don't personally think it's a flag, it's extremely borderline and I've seen way worse ignored, but there is room to clean up his technique so he isn't getting himself into compromising positions like that.
That was the first one and definitely was not a penalty, the second one was borderline but is called sometimes, that one was ridiculous.
Yea I've seen it called at times but it's usually let go, and I see worse ignored every week.In no way should that be a hold. It's not even borderline in my book. I see this and I seriously wonder what the hell the refs are thinking. If that's a hold you might as well just give up now because you're not winning football games. Because the refs don't call that against other teams.
Now this one I get a little. It's not holding but the guy goes to the ground. In a bang bang play I could see how the ref may think a guy got held but didn't. A play like this I can at least understand a refs thinking a little. Although I'd say if you can't see a hold don't call it. You shouldn't call penalties based on the end result if you didn't see what happened. But again, I get it. Like a WR who flops and PI is called despite the DB not actually grabbing him.
In no way should that be a hold. It's not even borderline in my book. I see this and I seriously wonder what the hell the refs are thinking. If that's a hold you might as well just give up now because you're not winning football games. Because the refs don't call that against other teams.
Now this one I get a little. It's not holding but the guy goes to the ground. In a bang bang play I could see how the ref may think a guy got held but didn't. A play like this I can at least understand a refs thinking a little. Although I'd say if you can't see a hold don't call it. You shouldn't call penalties based on the end result if you didn't see what happened. But again, I get it. Like a WR who flops and PI is called despite the DB not actually grabbing him.
Gosh, I wish I had clips of the Broncos Oline. Watch the game, there are multiple lineman doing worse than that on every play for them. It's like playing with 2 different rule books.I think it's borderline but it happened for a split second and it's the type of play they should ignore every time.
Oh just to be clear it's not holding. But again, guy falls on the ground, ref sees the result and body position and just assumes he was tackled to the ground. He wasn't, but that's a mistake refs make often in my opinion.I'm the opposite. I don't see this one at all.
In preseason none the less. These games are almost unwatchable as is. To make them even worse to watch makes zero sense.Why the fuck would they assume holding though? If you don't see it, don't call it.
There are way too many damn flags as it is without their assuming anything.
Even putting fairness or Cowboys bias aside, it's making the games unwatchable.
This is the worst of the refs' fuckups last night. In no world is that roughing.
Jesus didn't see a replay last night but that's awful. Nothing else he could have been done. Played it exactly the way the NFL wants players to. I hate it because that's what I want Williams to do. And now it really fucks with a player and he has no idea how he is supposed to play that.