In honor of Hate Week, I’ll roll this video out from last Thursday’s game at Mark Richt Field.
Fun fact – that was NOT ruled as targeting. It’s interesting how literally every time a Georgia defender is in the vicinity to defend a pass, there’s a very distinct chance that our guy is getting called for PI. If we make a bell ringer of a hard hit, I’m awaiting a targeting call. Hell we’ve seen Offensive PI more times in one season than in several seasons at Georgia combined.
As a reminder, an offensive player made a choice to lower their head and ran headlong into Dan Jackson, yet Jackson had to miss playing time for this:
Also – sidebar here – from Thursday night was the expected fawning over the backdrop that is a night game at Bobby Dodd.
Yes, as always, you can see the illuminated towers of downtown Atlanta, right past all the empty seats during an NCAA Football Contest at historic Richt Field.
Two things can be true, #22 laying the smack down on tosu receiver, Mr. Greg Blue reminding anyone with in his zip code, tomorrow will be a better day…GO DAWGS!!
It’s gotten to the point where after EVERY play we are looking to see where the flag is coming from. Unbelievable how many times a game the refs screw us over. Yeah, looks like they don’t want to see hard hits anymore, the flag happy SOB’s.
They think they’re there to be seen as part of the entertainment.
Half of them are cheating..they “don’t see” blatant fouls or call ticky-tac fouls as they see fit.
A lot of times, they don’t have a favorite team on the field..but if Bama losing to OK (just for discussion’s sake) helps their favorite team, Tennessee…they they just can’t help themselves.
That is textbook targeting. If nothing else, the ACC office should step in and suspend the player for the next game. I would be saying that regardless of whom those nerds would be playing the following week. Most targeting calls today involve a players who is not “defenseless.”
Leading with the head against a player who has his back to you and is getting tackled? At Georgia Tech, as a coward, you can do that.
Exactly right, ee. Leagues can certainly review targeting after the game (I believe it’s happened before) and this guy needs to have some alone time on the sidelines this week.
Seems like refs think they are there to be a part of the game…I wonder if they put on stage makeup so they’ll look good in front of the cameras.
A well officiated game will have no major controversies caused by “iffy” officiating.
I still contend that Georgia’s win over OSU for the title was skewed by a purposeful decision by someone (still don’t know who decides what officiating orgs do playoff games) who knew they wouldn’t call holding..ever…thus negating the Dawgs’ excellent pass rush. Had that game been called according to established rules, anOSU’s QB would have been in the hospital by the end of halftime.
When officials actually cost a team the Natty…with one or more stupid calls..or no calls…and take away years of preparation and work and blood and sweat and work by a team to win it (Tyler Simmons wasn’t offsides), you know something’s terribly wrong.
Dawgs got robbed of a hard worked for Natty by one moron with a yellow rag who was listening to the Bama coaches..(I’ll never let it go, BTW)..
I watched this call live. Couldn’t believe they overturned it. Obviously, it was a defenseless player. They said it was overturned because they could not determine if the defender struck him with the crown of his helmet or not? What the hell? Okay, if that is the case and the call on the field was targeting, why doesn’t the call stand? Don’t they need clear evidence to change the call? Or, if the player is defenseless, does it matter if the crown of the helmet was used? Wouldn’t it be targeting if it was a blow to the helmet using his forearm or shoulder since the was defenseless?
Best part about this was this was the first time they were allowing the rules analyst on the broadcast team to listen in on the review conversations. He said it was targeting before they reversed the call and then he covered for his referee brethren afterwards saying, “I understand why they changed the call after hearing their discussion” but wouldn’t really say what he heard discussed other than they couldn’t tell if the crown of the helmet was used. What a joke.
I played a good bit of football back in the day and have watched a shit ton to this day. Anyone who isn’t a moron can tell when a player is trying to hurt another player. If you are not being malicious then you shouldn’t be flagged. Eva use it is virtually impossible to change things when you and the opposition are moving at speed. Football is a rough sport, so deal with the fact that players are gonna get hit hard, sometimes in the head. Also, if an offensive player lowers his head, targeting should never be called. YMMV. End of rant. Go Dawgs!
I no longer have any idea what constitutes some of these penalties. A defender lowers his head and drills an offensive player with his helmet-TARGETING. A running back lowers his head and drills a DB with his helmet-NOT TARGETING. A defender’s hand comes across an offensive players face mask-PERSONAL FOUL FACEMASK. A running back stiff arms a defender right in the face mask -NO PERSONAL FOUL FOR FACEMASK.
As a DAWG fan I hate everything Auburn and really don’t like Bama, but both of them were on the receiving end of some horrendous calls Saturday. In the Bama game, all I could think was “It’s about damn time they got screwed by a bad call instead of always getting the benefit from one”. They may whine, but it did not change the outcome. In the Auburn game, they overcame them so no affect in the end.
Ahhh, but it did warm the cockles of my dark, dark heart to see Bama get stiffed on whatever-the-hell that call was on that non-TD catch by Ryan Williams, who I understand is only 8 years old.
I say this every now and then but it doesn’t so much bother me when they miss something because so much is happy really fast. It aggravates the shit out of me when they flag something that didn’t happen.
I know penalties are not typically the subject of reviews, but I think a coach should get 1 challenge of a non-judgment based penalty per game (so things like holding or PI can’t be challenged). If successful, he gets one more to use later in the game. If not, he has no further challenges.
DeBoer should have been able to challenge this call because it was a clear miss by the linesman on that side of the field.
Subjective officiating all too often alters outcomes of games. There’s no excuse not to have a system that allows coaches to challenge any type of call. Trade a time out for an official review. It’ll be on coaches not to waste time outs. Most get used so this won’t add to all ready too long game times. While on fixing the rules l’ll add every time a player goes down due to injury he’s out for that series. Exempt QB’s as they’re not part of the flopping problem.
I think that all flagged calls should be reviewed and, if seen to be erroneous, changed. Simmons was not offsides!