Did the Rams get railroaded?

[terbo559]

I thought the Rams got screwed
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[terbo559]

[KamTrus20]

[Ataal]

Of all the could've-should've moments in that game, THAT play is worthy of its own thread with 4 pages so far already? The one that was correctly called by the refs? The one that was shown with a split screen so that no one could even argue it? I'm literally shaking my head right now. Clock was at 0 and the ball hadn't been snapped yet. Do they sometimes miss it? Yes, but 99% of the time? How long have you been watching football? Seriously....

It was a horrible game for both teams. We lost our quarterback and gave up uncharacteristic huge plays. Rams shot themselves in the foot with penalties, over and over again. It was painful to watch. As much as I hate tie games, neither team deserved to win it.
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[jrry32]

[HighMotorGuy]

Just another reason why Jeff Fisher is not a good coach. If I was a Rams fan, I would pinpoint the entire loss on him for the numerous coaching errors he made throughout the game.

In the words of wise John L Smith "the kids are playing their tail off, and the coaches are screwing it up!"

[jrry32]

Regardless, I'd say the worst parts of the game were the refs ridiculously slow decision making and their stupidity with the clock.

Also, I'd like to mention that the NFL needs to stress to the refs working the 49er games that they're using an illegal play. They have Aldon Smith stunt on a play and Justin Smith holds the LG so he can't block Smith. Smith got pressure up the middle untouched multiple times during that game including a sack late in OT because Smith was holding the LG. That's illegal. The refs never called it.

But getting back to my point, they ran off over a minute by not stopping the clock. Then in OT, Isaiah Pead got the first down and was tackled with around 54 seconds. A 49er stripped it out as he was on the ground. The Rams were lined up and ready to spike it with about 38 seconds left(would have been able to spike it with 40 to 42 if the refs had not taken their sweet arse time getting the ball set) when all of a sudden, the ref decided he'd move the spot of the ball back 2 or 3 yards and take away the 1st down. Which ended up forcing the entire team to back up and ran 10 extra seconds off the clock.

It was a travesty. If those idiots couldn't decide on a spot(whether it was a first down) or whether it was a fumble or not, they should have stopped the clock and reviewed the play.
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[lilant2398]

seems like we get screwed everytime we play OT at candlestick
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[milanb]

I think the play clock may be one of those things that's become more of a point of emphasis with the officials. It used to be that there was about a half-second delay between the play clock hitting zero and the point where officials would actually throw the flag, but sometimes it was more than that.

I remember Peyton Manning in particular routinely letting the play clock run out and rarely getting flagged. There was a game against the Vikings in 2008 where he threw a TD pass on 3rd Down about two seconds after the play clock had run out, and it turned out to be the difference in the game.
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[S-jax39]

[El ramster]

[Special Teamer]

[kgthekid]

The officiating sucked all around in that game, but if the near-side WR or TE was on the line of scrimmage on the Amendola play like he was supposed to be, this wouldn't be an issue.
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[Keleth]

[DistantRam]

I was going to mention that Kaepernick's foot was clearly out of bounds before he reached the pylon but this isn't the right thread for that, so I won't.
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