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What the...? Taunting?

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For those of you who saw Sunday's game vs. the Jets, answer me this:
There was a play in the second quarter in which #70 for the Jets slipped the the Dolphins O-line and sacked Frerrote. After the sack, #70 stood right over Gus and did a sort of double-handed wave thing pretty much in his face.

I thought you could not stand over a tackled player and do this sort of thing, that it was a taunting foul.

Ordinarily, I would not bring this up because to me it is honestly a bit nit-picky, BUT I think back to Randy McMichael's taunting foul at Buffalo as he extended the ball out to a defender as he crossed the endzone. To me, equally nit-picky. I was wondering if anyone else saw this, if they understand the difference in the two plays, and could explain to me why one is a penalty and why one is not.

And have a Merry Christmas.
 
Bopkin02 said:
For those of you who saw Sunday's game vs. the Jets, answer me this:
There was a play in the second quarter in which #70 for the Jets slipped the the Dolphins O-line and sacked Frerrote. After the sack, #70 stood right over Gus and did a sort of double-handed wave thing pretty much in his face.

I thought you could not stand over a tackled player and do this sort of thing, that it was a taunting foul.

Ordinarily, I would not bring this up because to me it is honestly a bit nit-picky, BUT I think back to Randy McMichael's taunting foul at Buffalo as he extended the ball out to a defender as he crossed the endzone. To me, equally nit-picky. I was wondering if anyone else saw this, if they understand the difference in the two plays, and could explain to me why one is a penalty and why one is not.




And have a Merry Christmas.
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I defnitely saw it.... I dunno why they call one and not the other. Maybe the ref did not see him or just did not call it. I think it all depends on the ref!
 
I didnt see that play really, I was at the game and it happend all the way on the other side of the field

but

I did see one funny thing

After Bookers TD they celebrated, after a few seconds chambers came and they were gonna do that bump in the air thing they do, the ref looked at chambers and looked to say somthing like 'Dont do it' so chambers just stopped turned around and jogged off the field :lol:
 
I thought it should have been called too if you go by the call they made against McMike. To me it seems worse to sack a guy and do some kind of wave-dance in his face than it is to hold the ball out as you cross the goal line.
 
I also think his "waive" toward Frerotte was no different than when Chambers held the ball out after he beat the d-back for a TD a few weeks back....the refs need to be more consistent. :mad:
 
Bopkin02 said:
For those of you who saw Sunday's game vs. the Jets, answer me this:
There was a play in the second quarter in which #70 for the Jets slipped the the Dolphins O-line and sacked Frerrote. After the sack, #70 stood right over Gus and did a sort of double-handed wave thing pretty much in his face.

I thought you could not stand over a tackled player and do this sort of thing, that it was a taunting foul.

Ordinarily, I would not bring this up because to me it is honestly a bit nit-picky, BUT I think back to Randy McMichael's taunting foul at Buffalo as he extended the ball out to a defender as he crossed the endzone. To me, equally nit-picky. I was wondering if anyone else saw this, if they understand the difference in the two plays, and could explain to me why one is a penalty and why one is not.

And have a Merry Christmas.
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I thought the same thing...but it was NY and they get preferential treatment in the NFL...always have, always will....

How about the call on JT....he didn't hit Brooks in the face...his arm came across his chest....but they made up for it a while later and called one of the Jests guys for a weak "roughing the passer" call....

The biggest buffoon call was the interference on Howard in the 4th quarter...he didn't even touch the guy with his arms or body. Their feet got tangled up, causing the reciever to fall.....but until these types of calls are reviewable....there's nothing you can do...
 
I saw that and said the same thing. I don't see how McMichael can get called for holding the ball out, which is more celebrating than taunting in my eyes, but that goes unpunished. That was taunting in every sense of the word.
 
Clearly taunting.

Should it have been called? No, none of those things matter in the game outside of throwing the ball at someone etc.

It was a terrible call on McMike.
 
Bopkin02 said:
For those of you who saw Sunday's game vs. the Jets, answer me this:
There was a play in the second quarter in which #70 for the Jets slipped the the Dolphins O-line and sacked Frerrote. After the sack, #70 stood right over Gus and did a sort of double-handed wave thing pretty much in his face.

I thought you could not stand over a tackled player and do this sort of thing, that it was a taunting foul.

Ordinarily, I would not bring this up because to me it is honestly a bit nit-picky, BUT I think back to Randy McMichael's taunting foul at Buffalo as he extended the ball out to a defender as he crossed the endzone. To me, equally nit-picky. I was wondering if anyone else saw this, if they understand the difference in the two plays, and could explain to me why one is a penalty and why one is not.

And have a Merry Christmas.
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I saw that....He was waving his hands and I think he said "nanny nanny boo boo." I was up and yelling about that not being a taunting penalty - it pissed me off that we didnt get that call.
 
LarryFinFan said:
The biggest buffoon call was the interference on Howard in the 4th quarter...he didn't even touch the guy with his arms or body. Their feet got tangled up, causing the reciever to fall.....but until these types of calls are reviewable....there's nothing you can do...
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and the ensuing non-call on Sam Madison was huge too...the refs were totally inconsistent in this game, and it ultimately worked out for us this time :)
 
I remember the play perfectly and thought the same thing (that he should have been flagged for taunting), Frerotte handled it well... the guy was right in his face waving his hands and he just ignored him.
 
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