re: NFL corrupt officiating call of the week

I still don’t understand how it’s roughing the passer when he’s not passing. It was a sack. I know they won’t, but that call needs to be put to the forefront of importance the entire week regarding officiating. There was zero excuse to make that call.

It’s not the Saints’ fault but stuff like this is what killed my NFL fandom. I was at the 2018 NFC Championship in the corner of the Dome closest to the no call PI. When a third party that is supposed to be unbiased can take control and so unabashedly alter the outcome of a game, it no longer became worth investing in to me.

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Why would he make a “corrupt” call like that when the game was basically over?

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It is only "corrupt" because there will be no consequences for the most incompetent RTP call in history.

And not one other official came over to discuss it with him before assessing the penalty.

N.F.L. would take defense out of the game if they could. Everything about the game is tailored to the offense down to the hash marks.

But, why was it “corrupt”? Everything isn’t a conspiracy. How does the ref or anybody else benefit from him making that call? Sometimes people just make mistakes.

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People should be in jail when flags are thrown on calls like this.

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Terrible call? Yes, without a doubt, but jail? Can you be more dramatic, queen?

So really what should happen here is the NFL should come out and suspend that raef who made that call but they won’t do it because the ref was just doing what the NFL wants keeping the game close

It wasn’t a hip drop tackle, but did they call that or is that a separate penalty?

It wasn’t actually a hip-drop as the “unweighting” was part of his initial contact straight on to QB’s upper back, and then legs just hit and the defender slid off the QB’s back from that same momentum as the QB just kind of collapsed a little unexpectedly with the defender then just letting him loose instead of landing on top of QB. Any rotation of hips occurred after releasing while trying to avoid landing on the QB (maybe a little from the inadvertent contact with QB’s leg disrupting moving leg forward).

That’s the only thing even remotely close to a penalty in that tackle. Maybe in real speed and only viewing from behind it looked a little close to a hip-drop, but the ref has to pick that flag up. It shouldn’t have been called in the first place, but it should have easily been waved off after the initial overreaction to the tackle. That call promotes the defender not releasing and just continuing to land on top of the QB with his additional 40 to 50 pounds.

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A hip-drop tackle occurs when a defender wraps up a ball carrier and rotates or swivels his hips, unweighting himself and dropping onto ball carrier’s legs during the tackle.

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Bad call, yes. Why would you call it a corrupt call, when neither team is expected to do well? Nobody but Saints and Giants fans knew they were playing. The call went against them, but the Saints won the game, so the call is not favoring either team as far as gambling. Not corrupt, just bad. Maybe the sh*t games get the sh*t officiating crew.