SaintsBro

Part of what he talks about in this article is exactly the problem with what happened in the Rams game. You had a younger official overruled and contradicted by an older more senior official, and the two weren't familiar or used to working with each other. These kind of obvious mistakes will happen more and more frequently, given the current turmoil in the officiating ranks. It's a big problem and of course the league has no answers and is completely AWOL on correcting it.

jeanpierre

Stated this before in another thread that you don't need to be working out workplace personality politics out in the public on nearly the biggest stage of the game, the conference championships...

CHA_CHING

Playoff games are also officiated differently.

The crews are entirely made up of different guys from various crews in the regular season.

The idea is really to "let them play" in the playoffs and stay off the tick-tacky calls. Over the years, there have been various non-calls and questionable stuff let go cause they don't take it as seriously as they do in the regular season.

Green Bay has gotten away with more holding than any other playoff team in the last decade. I would argue that no team has gotten more favorable calls go their way than the Packers and it's largely because golden boy is their QB. Go back to that 2016 playoff run they had and watch the games vs the Giants and Cowboys. Several non-calls went their way and there was even a weird WTF penalty called on Dallas; that had not been called since 1984 (Dallas also had an interception on Rodgers late in the game that was called back before a GB score). The refs couldn't bail them out in Atlanta cause they finally faced a decent team that stomped them into the ground.

Before last year, I recall several plays in the Eagles/Patriots Super Bowl, specifically the two point conversions where New England got away with blatant pass interference.

I can't lie; I am concerned that reviewing pass interference and non-calls of it is going to have grave consequences. It's almost ironic that this rule change was pushed by Payton, when we had the most defensive pass interference penalties of any team last year (20 total). One of my greatest fears going into the playoffs last year was Eli Apple drawing a blatant PI call.