How Does This Happen? Another Ref Mistake in our Game

[Panthera onca]

They are corrupt, not incompetent.

[DeAngelo Beason]

On 1/19/2026 at 6:16 PM, tukafan21 said:

There is so much wrong with this post it's scary.

First, as it's been explained to you, the Bills call was 100% correct, he never actually had control of the ball outside of literally less than a half second of time, you're stuck on super slow mo and still frames as your proof.  

And second, the refs get almost zero replay assistance on the types of calls that make people say they are terrible at their jobs.  Replay assistance is for things like catches, in/out of bounds, fumbles, and ball placement.  Fans really don't care much about those things and if refs are right or wrong, because of the replay assistance (only comes into factor when it's too close to call so the original call stands)

They don't get any assistance on the rest of the penalties that are always what fans get upset about and why people say refs are terrible.  Namely, things like holding and PI, both called and missed, which they get absolutely zero replay assistance for.

It's those things I'm talking about where it's really tough for 7 refs to catch everything all the time.  They can only watch so many things at once, and that's if they even have a line of sight on the penalty, so many times the ref is watching the play but the player's bodies are between the ref and the penalty, particularly PI.

Is it really scary?  I disagree on everything you said, and you're wrong about the Bills call, but I'm really hung up on how exactly my post "scares" you.