Most messed up call in football?

Which penalty do refs screw up the most?

  • Offensive Pass Interference

    Votes: 3 2.1%

  • Targeting

    Votes: 23 16.1%

  • Roughing the Passer

    Votes: 37 25.9%

  • Defensive Pass Interference

    Votes: 22 15.4%

  • Offensive Holding

    Votes: 46 32.2%

  • Defensive Holding

    Votes: 1 0.7%

  • Illegal Formation

    Votes: 1 0.7%

  • Unnecessary Roughness / Late Hit

    Votes: 5 3.5%

  • Chop Block

    Votes: 5 3.5%
  • Total voters
    143
Jmonty71

Jmonty71

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In light of the terrible calls and missed call. Curious which calls do you think refs screw up the most. Welcome to add anything, I may have missed.
 
It depends on what you mean. They could call some penalties every single play. Holding and PI in both directions are examples. The officials allow the game to flow, usually.

And if they decide to flip a game on you, it does not matter what they decide to call as the penalty. I don't think we have to this date gotten clarification on the call that kept us from beating Notre Dame in their stadium re-opening.
 
I think this year they are doing much better with the targeting calls. They review all of them and overturn a lot of them.

Charlie really got screwed because most refs would not have called his hits targeting.
 
Targeting is very rarely mis-called these days thanks to replay. Most people who take issue with it just don't like the rule itself.

Surprised to not see roughing higher. I went offensive holding but that would've been my second for sure.
 
The targeting/roughing the passer calls are maddening to me. I understand the need to play safely but any hard hit seems to get flagged regardless of helmet position…even worse at the high school level.
 
gojkts said:
The roughing call against Duke was the worst call in that game, and maybe the most maddening so far this season, but the targeting rule is the most overused due to replay.
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But there were a lot of missed holding calls. I'm guessing refs have been told to protect QB's, unless he's wearing #10
 
Holding is by far the most commonly missed. Targeting probably has the biggest impact, since it results in a player being ejected.
 
JJacket said:
Offensive holding. Refs can call it on almost any play. They seem to let it go until it is convenient
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Seems impossible for one or two people to watch every lineman for holding, on top of their other responsibilities. So maybe calling holding is a best effort sort of thing and fans have an impossible standard. Police can't pull over every speeder, right.
 
LagrangeJacket said:
I say it in every thread on this, but there should be ejectable and non-ejectable targeting like in high school. Ejectable should be for those hits clearly intended to punish.
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I picked targeting despite the weekend's RTP calls (Tech, Falcons, Chiefs). Agree with the idea of separating targeting into categories like this in some way. It's one of the most infuriating penalties to see enforced. I get launching, apparent intentional helmet-to-helmet, hitting a defenseless player, hitting a sliding QB, etc. and agree with most aspects of enforcement on those. Too many times though you see a defender going low/low-ish to hit and wrap up the body of a runner (most likely with a shoulder pad) and the runner lowers their head to brace for impact effectively causing a helmet-to-helmet hit. Those should be no calls or waived IMO.
 
LagrangeJacket said:
I say it in every thread on this, but there should be ejectable and non-ejectable targeting like in high school. Ejectable should be for those hits clearly intended to punish.
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Unintentional targeting can be just as harmful as intentional. The goal is to reduce harmful hits to the head as much as possible. "Unintentional" targeting can be reduced by players taking greater care with form, how they tackle. I think the targeting rule is good as is.
 
There should be no roughing the passer unless the QB has on a short skirt.

Targeting is a train wreck and should not be called on the field. Let the replay ref call it with concurrence of the referee on review. Make the offender go to the penalty box for 5 minutes then return to the field.
 
The call that drives me nuts the most often is DPI. It's mostly just used to reward underthrown balls.

It's all part of the changes over the past decade or two designed to help offenses and get scores higher, though. All of those drive me up the wall. I'd rather watch a 24-17 game with good defensive play than a 45-38 game where the defensive players have to play with one arm tied behind their backs.
 
AugustaJacket said:
Too many times though you see a defender going low/low-ish to hit and wrap up the body of a runner (most likely with a shoulder pad) and the runner lowers their head to brace for impact effectively causing a helmet-to-helmet hit. Those should be no calls or waived IMO.
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This drives me nuts too. The answer is pretty simple -- call the offensive player for using his head as a weapon!

Defenders tackle far more safely in general now because they know that lowering their head will get them fifteen yards more often than not. There's no reason the same can't/shouldn't happen for runners.
 
GTCrew4b said:
Ineligible man downfield.
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They missed that one several times in the second half of the Bama game. I suppose Bama having the backup in caused it, but the refs never called it. Passes beyond the LOS with linemen 5+ yards down field.
 
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