What if Tanny were Tom Brady... as in -- any time you take the field, you KNOW that on the balance, calls are going to go your way. AND, at times, they will go your way in ASTONISHING fashion -- keeping you in games, turning lost games around, etc. How many times has this happened in Brady's career? I mean -- from the in the trenches non-calls, to the blatant egregious calls, to the very interpretive grid both for making calls and then defining them on film. I'm sick of it.
IF MIAMI had the same kinds of treatment against Baltimore (multiple bogus PI to turn the game) and NE as NE gets... what a difference!
Those who act like the officials do not and cannot turn games pretty much don't understand 1. How penalties create field position and game context, and 2. How such key calls can create or destroy momentum. It's a game of inches and field position. And when officials take it upon themselves to call species penalties that EQUAL game-changing plays (key third downs, chunk plays not on the stat sheet, extended drives, field position, field goal enablement and multiple TD chances -- akin to giving one baseball team 5 outs instead of 3, etc.), it's not just part of the field anymore.
I don't care who you are. IF you cannot see how those massively bogus PI calls and hometown interpretation of the batting call -- along with not calling key penalties against NE -- did not change the game, you're still clouded by emotion, imo. Yes, Miami did not score (I keep hearing that) in the second half... but a blind man could see how the game context to score was drastically changed by the shape of the penalties -- AND, the game context of how many scores needed, etc.
Totally changed the game.
LD