re: Ed Hochuli blows another one

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I wonder when he will be fired. Has blows 4 major calls this year in which the team he screws looses 3 of them.

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So you take what Joey freaking Porter says in a post game interview as truth???

And what were the other 3 calls?

Please don't tell me you're putting the Reggie bush facemask as one of the 4 plays.

hochuli is one of the best refs in the NFL. quit being a crybaby

schaub's arm was going forward so they made the right call fwiw

yes, porter was bitching about how there was no replay on that particular play and he's convinced that it would have been a fumble if there was one

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and the "even though the Vikings defender was lined up in the neutral zone, this does not excuse the false start by the New Orleans lineman" piece of bullshite call that cost us a shot at a key 1st down. A neutral zone infraction by its very nature overrides any other pre-snap motion penalty.

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Actually, it doesn't. The False start overrides any other pre snap motion penalty. That's why the play is blown dead as soon as a false start happens. The guy couldn't have been in the neutral zone when the ball was snapped, because the ball was never snapped. The play was dead as soon as the false start occurred.

Now if he jumps causing the lineman to false start that's another thing, but being lined up in the neutral zone is different.

We have been screwed by a couple of bad calls. The offsides in the Denver game I can live with because we still blew the field goal. The Minnsota game however was not just one call, it was about 4 or 5. With 2 of them being huge turnovers. I think Hochuli stated Peterson's knee was down mostly due to the fact they blew the whistle when McKenzie would have returned it for a touchdown. Much easier to give the ball back to Minnesota than to have to admit blowing the whistle again to early like in the SD vs. Den game.