That “America’s team” shit is self-proclaimed. Not real. The whole thing is NFL propaganda. Dislike what it all stands for. Wishing that franchise lots of professional misfortune.
This probably will be arguably the most-watched game other than the Super Bowl, and I hated that it got down to just throwing the ball up and getting your penalties to get your big plays," Jones said. "We had some plays go with us too. It wasn’t like it didn’t go against (the Raiders). So again, this is not a criticism of the rules. It is a criticism of the discretion of how you use them.
“If you knew it was going to be like this every time, then you’d step out there every time and throw 40-yarders down the field and hope that you get your calls.”
Thing is … Jerry might deserve the beneficial calls being one of the owners who fully invested in winning and pushing league forward in its dominance at least compared to many other owners. Jerry involved himself with biggest league issues , pushes his brand relentlessly and wants to win and he’ll spend to do it.
Until we see that from lions ownership
and there’s at least been two opportunities for Lions ownership to call out refs or league , I have yet to read a blistering , or even mildly frustrating quote out of ownership
Seemingly Content to collect their share of the profit share as their local sales tank with the product.
Another thing that I understand why but also bothers me is -
As fans we have no idea how these games are graded Did those refs even miss some other calls giving them a bad grade or get a bad grade for making a bad call ?
Without knowing any averages : how many calls on average are missed on a game ? Does an over turned call get graded poorly as a missed call ?
Think back to lions vs cowboys wildcard game - the performance of those refs could’ve been graded above average even if they just missed the one PI call … if they called the rest of the game perfectly.
How were these refs graded on the lions bears game ? How were they graded on cowboys raider game ?
Like Goff mentioned , if you can call holding or penalty on any play … how does the league even figure out a system to grade the refs ?