"Pitiful divisions" is what I said. Chargers had TONS of help from the refs. Cardinals may be a better team than the Falcons, but they're still not that good. They limped into the playoffs with a 9-7 record. They were blown out in 3 of their last 5 games.
Was it really help from the refs or was it help from Indy? I agreed with all the calls. Not to mention they could have put the game away in the early fourth quarter if not for some untimely turnovers...without their best player on the field, no doubt. Also, they won the field position battle all night and you HAVE to respect what their defense did against that Indy O.
The perception is that officiating crews tend to keep the flags in their pockets more in the playoffs than during the regular season. The crew in the Chargers-Colts game is an obvious exception as mentioned by the announcers. The Colts were flagged 9 times vs the Chargers 3. In the Atlanta-Arizona game both teams were flagged 6 times.
Yep, its the freakin playoffs. The refs decided that game last night with a bogus defensive holding penalty on third down that kept the final drive alive. I hate when refs think the game is about them instead of the players. Keep the flags in your pockets unless it's a blatant call.
Good thread dedicated to Hester over at a Chargers forum: http://forums.chargers.com/showthread.php?t=64073 They like him.
Exactly. I saw one play where Freeney's facemask was almost pulled from his helmet when rushing Rivers. It was a blatantly obvious illegal hands to the face penalty that wasn't called. It doesn't bother me so much that it wasn't called, but that EVERYTHING was called on the Colts, including a decicive BS defensive holding. Sproles and the SD defense does deserve credit.
