re: BAMA vs. Adams

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The issue is not with Vadal Alexander or the guy who pulled his leg and then flopped when rightfully shoved. It's not even with the official who threw the flag, because giving him the benefit of the doubt he may very well have only seen Alexander's shove because from his angle he could not have seen him being pulled. Nope...the issue is that once the flag was thrown and the officials came together for about 45 seconds as Jennings stood near them pleading the case, at no point did any other official on the field step up and suggest that considering they had allowed 5-7 seconds of pushing and shoving by both teams PRIOR to Vadal's shove that MAYBE they either wave that or call it offsetting. The fact that none of them seemed to see any of the stuff that preceded the Alexander shove (or did but did not bother to speak up) is what's troubling.

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im sure ill get insta banned, but you guys are forgetting one thing. there was lots of mutual shoving, but alexander is the only one shoving anybody after the whistle. it was another example of the refs letting the piles go on to long, but all the shoving was still technically during the play. Alexander shoves well after the play, and even if the ref saw 86 tugging gently on his leg, that is not enough provocation to justify the late shove and subsquent kneeing of ivory in the head. 86 is just doing what happens in almost every pileup, trying to free his teammate that is trapped underneath alexander (who is not moving off like he should). What alexander did gets called 100% of the time pretty much. The refs were wrong, but only in continuing to let the piles go so long.