NFL admits the TMac catch should not have been overturned

[Moonraker]

Just now, hepcat said:

I can tell you with absolute certainty that if the Panthers were playing a team as the betting underdog that would have 100% have stood as a catch. I said in the game thread I'd bet my life savings that catch would be overturned because the game was being managed towards a Saints victory. It's not really super fun to watch the NFL anymore because of the managed outcomes. 

You were hollering about the 20-17 finish fairly early lol. A wizard, you are.

[WhoKnows]

1 hour ago, PanthersATL said:

They said there wasn't clear evidence to warrant the overturn. 

How would it have made a difference at that point in the game?

 

https://www.nbcsports.com/nfl/profootballtalk/rumor-mill/news/nfl-privately-admitted-to-erroneous-reversal-of-catch-by-panthers

While it says we converted later, it 100% impacted the game. First, the clock stopped on the incompletion and we would have had another 12 yards on tha drive. We didn’t score but the play calls change. Seeing as how we lost on a last second long FG, an extra 12 yards and running the clock down another 17 seconds (or forcing NO to use a timeout) likely means at a minimum we go to OT and at best we score and win the game.

[electro's horse]

If only there was a way the ball could have been thrown higher. 

Oh well. 

[The Lobo]

48 minutes ago, hepcat said:

I can tell you with absolute certainty that if the Panthers were playing a team as the betting underdog that would have 100% have stood as a catch. I said in the game thread I'd bet my life savings that catch would be overturned because the game was being managed towards a Saints victory. It's not really super fun to watch the NFL anymore because of the managed outcomes. 

I get it, I don’t think it’s rigged though. I think when you have humans making calls and decisions there will be mistakes because we are flawed. Sometimes it’s in your favor, sometimes not. 

[hepcat]

40 minutes ago, Moonraker said:

You were hollering about the 20-17 finish fairly early lol. A wizard, you are.

Not a wizard it was just a very educated prediction I was confident about. I've done a lot of research on how the NFL manages games with the referees and tendencies certain referee crews have, and sports betting has a lot to do with it. The NFL 100% assigns referee crews to specific games to impact and manage the outcome. The Panthers were a heavy moneyline favorite before and for most of the Saints game. I could see based on the calls that the Panthers were not going to be winning that game. The phantom kickoff return formation penalty and some very questionable holding calls/hands to the face calls that the Panthers were being managed to keep the game close. 

I was hoping to be seeing a Panthers victory on Sunday but it doesn't seem to be happening that way per the ref assignment either. Looks like it'll be a comfortable Bucs win with maybe some late game feverish comeback attempt that falls short. Maybe the NFL cooks up some drama with the Dolphins beating the Bucs and a surprise Panthers win over the Seahawks setting up an improbable last week winner take all game no one saw coming but I think it's better TV viewership to have the Bucs in the playoffs over the garbage Panthers. 

Bucs probably win by 7 but it could be double digits if Bryce turns the ball over.

[hepcat]

1 minute ago, The Lobo said:

I get it, I don’t think it’s rigged though. I think when you have humans making calls and decisions there will be mistakes because we are flawed. Sometimes it’s in your favor, sometimes not. 

Maybe in some situations but that call was taken up to the booth and overturned. When it goes to the "booth", they can decide whatever they want and make up the reasons why on the spot and apologize later, or so it seems. 

[OneBadCat]

Refs 100% rig the game. Whether it’s bias or incompetence or some combination of both. The outcome is the same. Teams, players, coaches, all get cheated and potentially lose their jobs because of the refs idiot bullshit. The NFL is complicit in this because the refs have no consequences and nothing is fixed mid game. Therefore in that sense the games are rigged. You are not seeing the better team win.

 

Secondly the refs are indignant and don’t like being told then they are wrong and change the way they officiate off that. I don’t give a fug if someone is yelling in your face. You should have the integrity to call the game fair and justly.

Enough is enough. They should be held accountable. They already stole a god damn Super Bowl from us and are about to derail the franchise with last weeks all you can eat cheapshot bullshit. Add insult to injury that it was against the poo infested gutter ball Saints winning off penalties. Priority #1 next season is destroying them in every way imaginable.

Edited 10 minutes ago by OneBadCat