Thread: I don't like blaming refs but....

The refs did not suck, the bears play calling sucked which was more of an impact than the ticky tacky penalties. Don't run the ball 3 times in a row up the middle on 1st and goal, use your TE or roll out to the sides. Had we scored on either one of those 3 downs we would not be talking about Jefferys pass interference call which was pass interference. The second PI was legit because he extended his arm out again and pushed shields off. The peppers hit on Rodgers was legit because he left the ground when he hit Rodgers. You don't need to leave the ground and cream a guy. Had he just followed through we would have had the ball back with more time. Perhaps the coaches should get their shit straight and not put 12 men on the field or way to the last second to realize they have too many players on the field before calling a time out. I also recall jay burning a TO because we could not get the play in quick enough. The refs did not cost the bears the game, the bears cost themselves the game. The worst play of the game was the stupid trick play the packers tried when they were up 11 pts, why in the hell would you do such a risky play then the opposing teams offense is playing so bad?

Originally Posted by 4th and 26

The refs did not suck, the bears play calling sucked which was more of an impact than the ticky tacky penalties. Don't run the ball 3 times in a row up the middle on 1st and goal, use your TE or roll out to the sides. Had we scored on either one of those 3 downs we would not be talking about Jefferys pass interference call which was pass interference. The second PI was legit because he extended his arm out again and pushed shields off. The peppers hit on Rodgers was legit because he left the ground when he hit Rodgers. You don't need to leave the ground and cream a guy. Had he just followed through we would have had the ball back with more time. Perhaps the coaches should get their shit straight and not put 12 men on the field or way to the last second to realize they have too many players on the field before calling a time out. I also recall jay burning a TO because we could not get the play in quick enough. The refs did not cost the bears the game, the bears cost themselves the game. The worst play of the game was the stupid trick play the packers tried when they were up 11 pts, why in the hell would you do such a risky play then the opposing teams offense is playing so bad?

Here's the deal on blaming the refs for a loss. If you're going to do that then you need to be honest and give them credit for giving your team a win when calls go against your opponent. Funny no one ever does that! How about the GB game a few years back, when they had 18 penalties here in Chicago and we won. Everyone was down on the Packer fans for complaining about the refs, same as in Seattle game earlier this year.

I'll complain about the refs, and thought they had a bad game yesterday. However, I will never give them credit for costing us a game OR giving us a win. If you go one way, you gotta go the other. IMHO

Here's my problem with this embarrassment of a professional crew of officials

If they are really calling a "tight game" then why is Cobb virtually allowed to do the same thing on one of his td rec?

And why is there a no call on shields at the end?

And why are the blatant holdings not called?

The problem with this is that the only consistency is the fact that GB got seemingly every call

Theese officials should be removed.

Originally Posted by Grizzblue

Here's my problem with this embarrassment of a professional crew of officials

If they are really calling a "tight game" then why is Cobb virtually allowed to do the same thing on one of his td rec?

And why is there a no call on shields at the end?

And why are the blatant holdings not called?

The problem with this is that the only consistency is the fact that GB got seemingly every call

Theese officials should be removed.

All valid. Plus the call late on Peppers. However, the Packers beat the Bears. Only the idiotic throwback on the punt late in the fourth gave us any chance, and we failed to capitalize completely on our own.

There were alot of bad calls and alot of no calls, what gets me is in most cases it the most loved teams that get away with this shit. If there is a close call any almost any game with the Packers and a few other teams the Packers, win the call. I know some will say look at the Seattle game wasn't the regular refs.

There is really nothing right now in the NFL to hold Refs accountable for bad calls or bad games and until there is some teams will always win out when it comes to them.

Originally Posted by 50YearFrustration

Jeffrey can't get away with extending his arms. Every good receiver pushes off some, but it can't be so obvious. I will say that the refs were pretty bad to both sides with missed & poor calls during the plays. What the Packers really get away with a lot, though, is taunting. I can't believe they didn't see Shields yakking at Jeffrey all the way back to the huddle after the PI on the touchdown. They do it all the time and it's never called. When Shields interfered on that last play, Jeffrey refused a hand up from a Packer. It had to be frustration from that crap all day.

All that said, the Bears lost because they didn't make enough plays on either side of the ball. Fire Lovie!

Yes, Jeffery has to get better. However, his PI calls against him were less blatant than the one on Conte in the endzone which turned a fieldgoal attempt into a gift TD. Conte was only able to grab the receiver's arm because the receiver was interfering with him - his arm was straight and he was pushing Conte away. And that wasn't called by the ref standing 5 feet from it, it was called by some asshole 25 yards away.

Nobody is claiming the refs stole the game from the Bears. The Bears played like crap and still had plenty of chances to win the game. However, when the refs give the opponents 4 points on a borderline PI call (while missing OPI on the same receiver) and take away 4 points from your team on a ticky tack OPI call, it doesn't look good. Even with the refs behaving as if they had money on the Packers, the Bears still had plenty of chances to win the game.

Originally Posted by Rakk

Here's the deal on blaming the refs for a loss. If you're going to do that then you need to be honest and give them credit for giving your team a win when calls go against your opponent. Funny no one ever does that! How about the GB game a few years back, when they had 18 penalties here in Chicago and we won. Everyone was down on the Packer fans for complaining about the refs, same as in Seattle game earlier this year.

I'll complain about the refs, and thought they had a bad game yesterday. However, I will never give them credit for costing us a game OR giving us a win. If you go one way, you gotta go the other. IMHO

I don't blame the refs because Tice sucks big time at play calling and he constantly tried running up the middle and failed big time. Had tice actually used the TE or roll out Forte for a short screen play we may have scored. The sad thing is we make it so damn obvious on our play selection and that is what kills us at times.

Originally Posted by JJ-30

There were alot of bad calls and alot of no calls, what gets me is in most cases it the most loved teams that get away with this shit. If there is a close call any almost any game with the Packers and a few other teams the Packers, win the call. I know some will say look at the Seattle game wasn't the regular refs.

There is really nothing right now in the NFL to hold Refs accountable for bad calls or bad games and until there is some teams will always win out when it comes to them.

Every team gets good and bad calls to go their way and at times it seems like certain teams get more calls but there are times the good teams get burned and I have seen it alot. When the bears are winning people are not talking about the refs blowning calls yet when we lose the refs get blamed. One of our first penalties was having 12 men on the field in which I blame the coaching on that one. Now if the bears had giving up point becuase of the penalty we would be bitching out lovie. My biggest gripe about this game is the play calling on offense, god knows why our TE's disappear in these big games or our other wrs disappear also. We have to have someone other than brandon Marshall on the field yet we don't. If our offense had clicked a slight bit then maybe we win the game.