The media strikes again....although it may be true. Just wish it wasn't us

[ATLBound]

(12-02-2010 05:58 PM)Falcon Millenium Wrote:  I can't watch the video at work, but there's something I don't get. It doesn't sound like the Falcons rushed to the line on the next play, but I have seen many teams rush to the line and try to get a play off before the opposing coaches have time to analyze a questionable call. I always thought this was smart football.

Packers fans, blame your coaches if you need to blame somebody. Or accept that Tony G made the catch.

well they are trying to make it seem like our home stadium gave us an "advantage" by playing the replay that looks like he caught it and then after we ran a play THEN the booth played the replay that looks like he didn't catch it.

[Dale4Saul2Red0]

Actually the Falcons rushed to the line but took their time in running the next play. GB had all day to challenge.

[juraitwaluzka]

(12-02-2010 06:10 PM)ATLBound Wrote:  well they are trying to make it seem like our home stadium gave us an "advantage" by playing the replay that looks like he caught it and then after we ran a play THEN the booth played the replay that looks like he didn't catch it.

Yet they laud the mystique and tradition of Lambeau field.

[Arkansas Falcon]

Everybody knows that Tony G made that catch. Case closed.

[BullRush]

That most definitely wasn't a catch and that replay wasn't shown in a timely manner, but that's one of the home field advantages. Football is just as much about the unseen as is about the seen

[Nuccah]

(12-02-2010 04:27 PM)DriveHomeSafelyAtlantaWins Wrote:  2. The coaches box has access to *all* of the replays, from ALL angles, regardless of whether they're the home team or the away team. There is no disadvantage to the away team whatsoever in regards to the replays available in the coaches box.

They get the replays as they become available from the live feed. Live feed, being the same as that in the broadcast. All the possible angles don't automatically come to the coaches box instantly.

I had no problem with this segment. It cast a light onto why Green Bay didn't challenge the play, and it was because of an obscure angle that you don't often see.

It was controversial, obviously, but anytime you have two heavyweights in the NFL go toe-to-toe and there is a controversial play, it is going to be scrutinized.

[GaRoadHog]

This article addresses the issue of what is available to the visiting team. Does anyone know for sure what is provided at the Dome? Link

Sorry about some random stuff in the article... IPad has problems copy and pasting web pages.

PITTSBURGH -- The Steelers apparently didn't challenge a possible touchdown run by Rashard Mendenhall against the Saints on Sunday night because their assistant coaches stationed in the press box couldn't see the same replays that were viewed by the millions of fans watching on TV.

"Maybe we missed an opportunity there, but I don't think that's the reason we lost the football game," coach Mike Tomlin said Tuesday.


On a second-down play from the 2 early in the second quarter, the officials ruled Mendenhall didn't get the ball across the goal line before he was brought down. NBC replays appeared to show the ball touching the goal line before Mendenhall was tackled, but Tomlin didn't challenge the call.

Mendenhall was tackled for no gain on third down, and the Steelers (5-2) settled for Jeff Reed's 19-yard field goal and a 3-0 lead, rather than the 7-0 lead if Mendenhall had scored. The Saints (5-3) went on to win, 20-10.

The TV sets in the Steelers' booth apparently were tuned to the Louisiana Superdome's scoreboard feed, which failed to show the NBC replays. Such replays typically aren't shown inside the home team's stadium if they might help the visiting team.

In some NFL stadiums, the visiting teams' booths are equipped to receive only the scoreboard feed, rather than the network TV feed, thus limiting the number of replays.

"There wasn't a bunch of video evidence available to us," Tomlin said.

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"When you're on the road in different environments, and different setups and different sources of information, it takes a period of time to get adjusted," Tomlin said. The Steelers hadn't played in New Orleans since 2002.

Tomlin also explained Mendenhall gave no sign from the field that he possibly scored. Players often gesture from the field to the sideline if they believe a call should be challenged.

"I've been here long enough and have a decent enough rapport to know when I'm going to get legitimate information or emotional informational," Tomlin said. "Since the game, I found out it was a potentially challengeable play; we didn't deem it to be one. ... The guys on the field didn't seem to think it was a challengeable play, so we didn't."

Tomlin also said "time is of the essence" in such a situation because teams have only two replay challenges per half, and the play clock often is ticking down.


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"We're not going to make that an excuse (for not challenging the play)," Tomlin said. "We had more than that opportunity to get the ball in the end zone down there, and we take responsibility for our inability to do that. We're not going to let a judgment on the field be a crutch for us in that particular instance.

"We've got to score touchdowns when we have the ball down there. So I'm less concerned about that element of the play -- whether we challenged it or didn't challenge it. I just want to see us score in those situations."

Notes: Tomlin said DE Brett Keisel (hamstring) could return Monday night in Cincinnati after missing two games. Injuries to Keisel and Aaron Smith forced backup ends Nick Eason and Ziggy Hood to start in New Orleans, and neither was credited with an unassisted tackle.

Copyright 2010 by The Associated Press

[FalconFanSince84]

(12-02-2010 05:58 PM)Falcon Millenium Wrote:  It doesn't sound like the Falcons rushed to the line on the next play, but I have seen many teams rush to the line and try to get a play off before the opposing coaches have time to analyze a questionable call. I always thought this was smart football.

Exactly. Every team does this when they think that a call was close and might get overturned. And every announcer always supports the team doing it, calling it a smart move. But for some reason the Falcons do it and it's cheating, unfair, un-sportsmanlike. Cry me a freakin river.

Personally I don't think he caught the ball but that doesn't matter, it was ruled a catch and GB didn't contest it, end of story. I've seen plenty of similar plays that went against the Falcons, it's all part of football.

[papachaz]

(12-02-2010 09:43 PM)FalconFanSince84 Wrote:  Exactly. Every team does this when they think that a call was close and might get overturned. And every announcer always supports the team doing it, calling it a smart move. But for some reason the Falcons do it and it's cheating, unfair, un-sportsmanlike. Cry me a freakin river.

Personally I don't think he caught the ball but that doesn't matter, it was ruled a catch and GB didn't contest it, end of story. I've seen plenty of similar plays that went against the Falcons, it's all part of football.

i co sign! i've grown weary of the media coverage of us anyway, they can say all they wanna say. bottom line, it was ruled complete on the field, wasn't challenged much less overturned. end of the story.

[juraitwaluzka]

(12-02-2010 09:43 PM)FalconFanSince84 Wrote:  Exactly. Every team does this when they think that a call was close and might get overturned. And every announcer always supports the team doing it, calling it a smart move. But for some reason the Falcons do it and it's cheating, unfair, un-sportsmanlike. Cry me a freakin river.

Which is even funnier because they didn't even do it!