dizzle88

If you watch the highlights, when will smith is being held in the endzone, the back judge is staring at it happening right there, looks to the other official and then just ignores it

Surely they've been trained to recognize holding, or was that goodells way of saying

"You call penalties for every team except the saints"

SaintsBro

I was watching this and definitely noticed it. It seemed to be something they did a lot. They would all kind of look at each other and expect the other guy to do something. It also took them forever to set things up, like extra points. There was one play I remember where the Saints had already lined up to snap the ball, were calling signals, and the refs ran in and stopped it to measure... took them forever to decide to do it (should have been obvious in seconds) and then they took a reeeeeal long time to get the measurement done, while the Saints players just stood around impatiently, like come on, let's go.

I don't think it was official bias against the Saints as much as, Roger Goodell is plain old incompetent....