Even outsiders noted the officiating

[tiger7_88]

Brit Hume

@brithume

Blown calls in Panthers-Niners game another exmpl why challenges should be allowed for penalty calls & non calls. Keep same # of challenges.

 

 

 

Brit Hume is a political commentator, born and raised in Washington D.C.  So my assumption is he's a Redskins fan.

 

(P.S. Please, for those who know what network this guy works/worked for and want to bring politics into this thread... DON'T.  It's not about politics.  Its about the officiating.  This is just an example of an "outsider" who NOTICED, his politics be damned or not.)

[48ochoshogun]

It was questionable calls, i tell ya. Made Fans go wthhh

[Woodcookedbbq]

Yeah the officiating was pretty bad, but it's been that way all season in almost every game.  The NFL just needs to overhaul its officating procedures and start from scratch.

[jasonluckydog]

refs should be fined for poor performances then terminated if it happens again,,,

[IGSaint]

Yeah the officiating was pretty bad, but it's been that way all season in almost every game.  The NFL just needs to overhaul its officating procedures and start from scratch.

 

No, today was pretty blatant with the bad officiating. It felt like the refs were in favor of the 49ers throughout the game. 

[SCMunnerlyn1]

refs should be fined for poor performances then terminated if it happens again,,,

 

It happened in candlestick so technically this should be it for that crew.

[carolina-chuck]

refs should be fined for poor performances then terminated if it happens again,,,

 

This!

 

Goodell really needs to take a hard look at this.

[Anybodyhome]

32 teams in the NFL played 16 regular season games. Virtually every one of those games had instances of bad officiating. Officiating has progressively gotten worse over the past couple years and until the NFL makes the officials a full-time, NFL paid employee instead of a part-time gig I'm afraid it won't get any better. But even full-time refs won't make all the difference. 

[*FreeFua*]

I wouldn't even be against reviewable penalty calls or having any flag challengeable. It may slow down the game but you can't have refs playing this big of a hand in the outcomes of these games.

These guys bust there asses all year, the refs should play not part in a season ending loss.

All officiating in all sports is becoming worse and worse. For the baseball fans on this board you don't need to think to far back. Joe Nathan threw a called strike 3 to end a game last year that was a foot off the plate and in the dirt. Even Nathan was stunned when the ump called it a strike

[davos]

Referees are not held accountable other than being relegated to sh*ttier games.  

 

I don't care how they are necessarily calling a game (because it can never be perfect) but they need to be f*cking consistent. bottom line.  

[Joey 9ers]

Yeah, I'm a niners fan and I thought there were a couple of bad flags. The after the play on mitchell wasn't much of anything. But we had the roughing the passer in second half that wasn't a penalty, but they called it

[tiger7_88]

Yeah, I'm a niners fan and I thought there were a couple of bad flags. The after the play on mitchell wasn't much of anything. But we had the roughing the passer in second half that wasn't a penalty, but they called it

 

So you're guy rocking Cam's head back with his helmet isn't a penalty?

 

Okkkkkkkkkkk...

 

Why?  Because he's Cam and he deserves it?  You don't think that flag would have been thrown if that had been Peyton Manning taking the same blow to the head?

[Joey 9ers]

So you're guy rocking Cam's head back with his helmet isn't a penalty?

 

Okkkkkkkkkkk...

 

Why?  Because he's Cam and he deserves it?  You don't think that flag would have been thrown if that had been Peyton Manning taking the same blow to the head?

 

No, because he was in the pocket about to get hit in the back, and then he turns around to get away from the rush and pretty much collides head to head with skuta. What the hell is he supposed to do? I would say Cam was a runner after he decided to spin around and try to get out of the pocket. 

[Darth Biscuit]

I've said this all season... Bad officiating all around.

We benefited from a bad roughing call today too, but the first half officiating was as bad as I've seen.

Everyone noticed and only homerish 49er fans don't want to accept that they had help.

Would we have won the game? Don't know, but it sucks to not get a fair shake.