Side Judge Phil Mckinnely used to play for the Falcons
 

"The NFL has confirmed that former Falcons player Phil McKinnely served as the down judge for the Saints-Falcons game. McKinnely spent five years with the Falcons, from 1976 through 1980. He played for the Bears in 1981 and the Rams in 1982.

The strangest aspect of the assignment is that McKinnely isn’t a member of the crew that worked the game. He’s the down judge on Bill Vinovich’s crew, but he was assigned to work on Clete Blakeman’s crew."


I seem to remember a ref being made to quit in the past because someone dug up pictures of him in Saints Memorabilia.

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:popcorn:

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unreal

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The fix was in. People other than us homers see it.

:popcorn:

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falcons fans were saying it for god sake

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Clete Blakeman Referee Is No Stranger to Bizarre Episodes.

At least he's consistant...

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Goodell rears his ugly head again, this time lifting his head out of Authur Blank's trousers. These are neither moral nor ethical people. They cannot be trusted. I wish the Benson's would be more aggressive and sue the league.

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Goodell can go frack himself. I hate to say it but I hope someone would assassinate the dude before he destroys the entire game of football.

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I don’t know the answer to these questions, if someone could look it up it would be great.

Was this the judge who threw the flag on:
The roughing call on Rankins?
The penalty on Payton?
The procedure call at the end of the half?

Was he also the ref that insisted Kamara be entered into concussion protocol?

If this official was responsible for all or 3 of 4 then there has got to be collusion here... it just doesn’t look good at all.

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He was right next to Kamara when he got hit.

He ran in front of Marshon Lattimore after he made the pick, watch the replay;


I don't know what other penalties he called, but SP said you normally get warnings about players being lined up wrong when they are back ups.

But this crew didnt, they called us for illegal formation and cost us 3 points.

However, the refs didn't stop Payton or the offense much, Brees and Payton squandered a bunch of opportunities to put this game away.

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No doubt we still should have won, but this officiating crew took points off the board for us and gave the falcons 9 first downs.

Not going to complain any longer, if we get healthy we are the best team in the nfc, but the fact remains this guy could be a huge reason for us losing.

After reading into this more it’s even more odd how he was put into the line up at the last minute, he wasn’t supposed to be there, he wasn’t even listed on the crew until his name was edited into the line up after the game... crazy stuff

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All this stinks but you just no nothing will happen about it.

We just need to concentrate on our next game and win that.

I see the Panthers won today also! :-(

GEAUX SAINTS!!!

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We need to impose our will on the Jets.

I'm watching their game vs Broncos right now.

The Broncos lost 8 straight games and are blowing the Jets out.

Josh McCown got hit and held his left wrist, still hasn't returned to the game. Bryce Petty in at QB and looks shaky. They have two good RB's in Forte and Powell, but Petty is missing wide open receivers.

We need to shut their running game down and force it into Petty's hands.

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as long a they suck both teams it is ok but Thursday was way too lop sided with ticky-tack fouls against the saints. Atlanta did the same crap all game long.

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I know a lot of these guys used to play whether in college or pros. I think it should be known if and what organizations they played for in the past and shouldn't be allowed to officiate games those teams are playing. I don't care if they were the backup water boy. They don't have any business out there. I quit blaming refs for loses years ago. And I certainly don't blame them here because we should have taken care of business ourselves and we didn't but that was the most bizarre game officiating I think I have ever seen. The whole game just didn't seem right as far as the officials were concerned.

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He also worked two games that we won earlier in the season (first Panthers game and Bucs game)... So you know, I don’t think there’s much to this other than it just being a bad look.

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He was the sideline judge that ruled the Broncos got a legit TD last year.

Wether he is biased or not he shouldn't be doing NFC South games

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Slightly unrelated; Rumour has it that Josh McCown (Jets QB) broke his hand today and the Jets had Bryce Petty at QB for 2 quarters.

Petty was missing a ton of open throws, they have two good RB's, we need to shut thr run game down and make Petty panic.

Lets get that W.

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and let's get healthy because tell you right now that is the most important thing. We can play with any team in the nfc if we are fully healthy

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Added to that the Eagles worried Wentz has blown his ACL. Feel sorry for him but that doesn't half open up the NFC.

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Carson Wentz gone for the season as per everywhere.

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Sucks for him. But they have someone who might (in theory) step up...

:popcorn:

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Saints could win 2nd seed

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The NFL is slowly becoming a rigged sport.

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When I watch the NFL I am reminded of the choreographed acting done in WWF or Debbie Debbie E. Whatever it's called these days.:evil:When I watch the NFL I am reminded of the choreographed acting done in WWF or WWE. Whatever it's called these days.:evil:

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Unless the side judge made questionable calls against the Saints it's a nothing-burger.

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From what i read he made the call that negated the FG and other calls later on

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Rigged or not. It certainly seems as if the field was stacked against us from the very beginning...

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You just can't give an opposing team 9 free first downs and expect to win, yet we still could have. Half of those first down penalties were suspect however.

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^^ This ^^