Did The Refs Come As One Sided In Favor Of The Giants?

There were some missed calls here and there, but that always happens. I didn’t see anything that made me feel it was biased toward the Giants in any way.

The receiver control rule is ridiculous. To me – Jennings established possession in the end zone. As soon as that happens it should be a touchdown. The Calvin Johnson thing was stupid because he caught the ball and just put it down as he was getting up. As stated in the post, the second a RB or QB crosses the plane, it’s a TD, even if it gets fumbled right after, yet Jennings has it batted away after he caught it, and there’s debate as to if it’s a TD? This isn’t an argument for that play, but the rule in general. Just make it consistent.

I learned long ago that beefing about the refs is the mark of a loser. It is what it is. In every game, both teams suffer or benefit from questionable calls, and over the course of a season everything evens out.

Although, if it makes opposing fans feel better, I agree that the refs are part of a high level, super-secrect black helicopter conspiracy for the Packers to go undefeated. It all started in 2005 when the league manipulated the draft so the Packers got Rodgers at 24 in the first round. Gotta go; my shoe is ringing and I have to answer it.

I’d still say the Ballard TD was a TD…there’s photographic proof of that, but I mean, I can’t rag on them for that. It is what it is. Though, for all the people that keep ragging on the people at BBV last night because we were complaining about calls….it was right after the game and everybody was pissed off. Everybody gets emotional after a loss and starts saying nonsensical shit. I think you’ll find that today, clearer (and sober) heads will prevail.

I think Finley was acting when he fell, trying to get a flag instead of get open, I was very dissappointed in him this game. The Driver TD nullified that no call as you said and as you said the same thing happened with Nicks. That only leaves the elevating on the FG. In a game that had a few close calls to only miss one that only happened because of a quirky fumble call that they got right that most crews would have gotten wrong, I’m not going to complain

The Ballard play I can’t comment on, because I didn’t see it since I was still driving home. The FG before the half I didn’t notice anything because I usually watch the kicker’s feet on FGs, which btw it looked to me like Crosby slipped a little on the plant which is probably why he missed. The same thing with Raji, I wasn’t watching him very close except to see he got manhandled out of the hole, I was just wondering where the hell the LBs were on that one. The call for IC on Finley I thought was iffy at best, but it was nullified by a blatant no call three plays later so that’s a wash since the drive ended the same either way.

The Jennings TD I didn’t think was a catch after seeing the replay, but I wasn’t sure due to my lack of knowledge of what constitutes a catch anymore. The Woodson PI non-call I think would’ve been called if the ball wasn’t caught. I thought the ref was reaching for a flag but decided not to throw it since it was caught anyway. I think this seems to happen alot more than people notice, because it always seems like the flags come well after the play when its in the endzone.

I think at the end of the day it really doesn’t matter because you can’t predict how the game is going to go with different calls. Its easy to say they should’ve had a TD there instead of a FG so they would’ve won by 1, but in reality you don’t know how a different scores at different times of the game are going to change the strategy and play calling.

I agree the refs weren’t biased towards one team or the other. I saw plenty of missed calls for both teams, which Brandon highlighted above me.

People normally complain about the refs because they’re looking for an excuse for why they lost the game. Sometimes they have a point, but this time they didn’t.

articles about reffing…..though not the same as the “other” variety.

Still would rather not see them at all, but there was a lot of back and forth last night.

If Giants fans want to say that they were just bitter after a loss and that’s what this complaining about the reds is, I can live with that. However if they actually expect us to eat this tripe, they need to sober up.

The Ballard TD catch had no conclusive evidence that he was in. There is a picture that makes it appear that he was in, but its a shot from above, how in the world can you see his knee being down from above? That’s right, you can’t. On top of that, on the replay you can see the black pellets show up out of bounds when his knee hits, which would insinuate that he was out of bounds.

The Jennings catch was a catch, but the terrible calls with end zone plays recently allow the Giants fans to think otherwise. I like to think of it this way: if Jennings had the ball in the palm of his hands, instead of the finger tips and it moved in the exact same way and was then knocked out of the palm of his hands by the defender… Would anyone even talk about? The only reason why we are talking about it is that it was held onto by his finger tips, but the ball was clearly not moving.

If you take away those 2 calls the Giants complaining fans have no basis to stand. There wasn’t a single call against the Giants made that wasn’t the exact same scenario for the Packers. Remember that holding call on Woodson when Burnett made the catch out of bounds on the pass to Nicks? Well that was no worse than what was happening to Finley all game and going largely uncalled.

Really, the Packers should be 0-12, but they’re not, thanks to the refs.
/I could be a Giants fan!

I know they don’t want to lose the human element but it seems that with instant replay available they (being the refs vs instant replay) constanly contradict eachother. I’m all for keeping human refs, but the broadcast doesnt help by continually instigating it.