because they were ROBBED yesterday!! danny wtf is up with tht fumble call? they woulda won they game if the refs didnt screw them over. if they miss the playoffs by 1 game, this will be y
im not going to get into a debate about this so i will just let Peter King handle it for me:
The Dolphins aren't pleased. Nor should they be.
[Two] points about the caterwauling surrounding the Dolphins' 23-22 loss to Pittsburgh:
1. When you start your first two drives of the day at the 22- and 13-yard lines, and you're playing a team with an explosive passing game and a defense that's not going to give you much, and you don't turn those golden chances into touchdowns, you're in trouble. Which Miami was, as it turned out.
2. It's hard to make sense of the replay call by referee Gene Steratore, but as weird a call as it was, I think he made the right decision near the end of the game. When Ben Roethlisberger lunged for a touchdown at the one and fumbled at the goal line, the officials at first ruled that Roethlisberger had crossed the plane of the goal line and scored. Once a touchdown was ruled, they're not going to police the fumble recovery; no need to, because the touchdown supercedes it.
Then, once a replay review was announced, negating the touchdown, unless the crew had seen a clear fumble recovery in the end zone, Steratore was not going to reverse it. And the video of the fumble recovery was not clear. It appeared the Dolphins got it, but the replay was inconclusive. Absent video evidence that the Dolphins had the ball, Steratore ruled the ball came loose from Roethlisberger, but absent evidence that the ball changed hands, gave possession back to Pittsburgh. Looked fishy, to be sure, but what other call could you make?
So, the call on the field was correct, fish just because you dont understand it (and want to cause an argument) doenst make it wrong, because once an official signals touchdown and blows the whistle, players cant be responisible for fighting for a fumble. And two, the Steelers handed the dolphins two possesions inside there own 20, if you could score a TD instead of playing for FG, dolphins win by 4 and none of this matters.
i no the rule, never said the ruling was wrong, i said they the refs made a bad call on the field and the phins got screwed. same as the lions vs bears with calvin johnson, every1 knew johnson scored but the "letter of the rules" or watever bs ref term u wanna use states tht he didnt come down with it and no td. same thing happened here, it was a fumble every1 saw the dophins got the ball but the refs made a bad call on the field n couldnt reverse it to make it right. they shoulda ruled it a fumble on the field and then reviewed if it was a td or not. these must be the same refs from the seattle pit super bowl...
"So, the call on the field was correct, fish just because you dont understand it (and want to cause an argument) doenst make it wrong."
btw, the ruling on the field was a td, which umm was the wrong call. the refs messed up and couldnt do anything to fix it cuz they didnt let the play continue. usually the let the play run out so i was surprised they didnt here too.
did everyone see the dolphins get the ball? did you? i think not or else there would have been evidence to overturn the call. besides like i said earlier if you see someone get in the endzone you call a touchdown. you dont wait until hes 3 yards in everytime just to make sure he didnt fumble. and once the whistle blows they cant overturn a call because the play is dead and players arent expected to contiunue to fight for the ball
refs r suppose to be trained to let the play play all the way out, and not blow the whistle if there is still action going on. this happened a few years ago with cutler vs the chargers and ed houllci where he blew the whistle too early cuz he thought the play was dead. ya i agree if u think a player scored a td u should blow the whistle, but there was also a fumble and it was very close, they shoulda have let it play out, ruled it a fumble and then reviewed if big ben got in before hand, not ruled it a td n thts it. any non pit fan would agree on this.
i think it looks pretty obvious that the dolphins recovered the ball in the end zone, i called it from the first time i saw the play and i just rewatched it in slow mo. i don't give a **** about the steelers or the dolphins.
dolphins were robbed but what can you do, its over and done with.
if they had ruled it a fumble on the field (correct call) the refs would have awarded it to the dolphins, no way you can argue that.
however as peter king and everyone else said, because the ruling was a TD, the recovery needed to be 100% clear without a doubt. unfortunately in those big piles of bodies, you just never know, even though it looked like 2 dolphins were on it and the only pitt player MAYBE had his hand in there.
ok so its conclusive phins got robbed and steelers shoulda lost. next topic: forster, u still hating on the chiefs? ya i agree jax aint ****, but they smacked them. there only 2 losses came vs the colts by a couple points and the texans with a bs PI call that changed the game. the chiefs r good n the chargers r struggling i thnk KC is clear favorites to win the west. how will they do afterwords? prolly get smoked in round 1 but thts no the point
well I picked up d bowe on waivers and he has put up 4 tds in the past 2 weeks. as long as he keeps doing that I guess I need to stop hating on the chiefs.
that's why i don't make bold predictions so I don't have to swallow my pride hahaha.
but I will say that so far I am looking good on my prediction of Skins #1 in NFC east after this week, it pains me to have to root for the cowboys tonight but somebody needs to knock the giants down a peg.
Let me just say one time and one time only that the NFL referees have yet again cost another team a game. I am just shocked how quick he was to stop the play and call a TD. If you look at the replay every other ref was on the pile looking at possession, yet Steratore decided to run away and call a TD.
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"Honestly, to tell you the truth, I'm disgusted that so many people in our organization and our team really harped on that as much as we did," Marshall said. "After the game I didn't talk to the media just because of that, because that was gonna come up. And for me to spend 10-15 minutes after the game talking about that fumble like it was the reason why we lost is something, I couldn't do and I just took myself out of that position. And I was disappointed that most guys wasted their time talking about that one play, like that was the reason we lost."
Doesnt even seem like the Dolphin players think that play was a gamebreaker...
While I sit in an airport in Charlotte, NC, let me talk briefly about Nicks last post. Although insightful and well referenced I don't always take what Brandon Marshall has to say as being genuine. He made many head scratching comments in Denver, and will continue to make head scratching comments while in Miami, especially if we lose, ESPECIALLY if we lose like that.
I expect B Marsh to shout out to his physciatrist after next weeks win.
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