RichNhansom
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I can't shake this feeling and it is bothering me significantly.
There is at least 16 officiating crews at any one time yet Mike Carey officiated half of our east coast 10am games last year. One against Miami included a horrible call flagging Thomas for roughing the passer ended up being the difference between a win and a loss and the Chicago game where even after one of the best wins we've had in years still had people upset about the way the game was called.
The NFL also commissioned Mike Carey and crew to officiate the super bowl which would have given me nightmares had we gotten there. The paranoid side of me wonders if he was selected just in case because god knows I would have gotten an ulcer waiting for the actual game to be played. Lets not forget they had us play an early east coast playoff game against the #1 seed on our second week of travel. Seems to me that moving that to a later slot would have been pretty obvious but their didn't even appear to be any effort at all to make that happen. Do you think they would make the Packers come west and play an evening playoff game?
The NFL made zero attempt to soften our schedule by moving games out of the early time slot either while simultaneously moving the Niners difficult games to later time slots and only having them play teams that were deemed cream puffs at the time the schedule was being made.
During this offseason we have seen NFL.com repeatedly rank anything Niners above us and in some cases significantly like Jimmy at #2 and Pete at #15 or Wilson #5 out of 5 of the QB's under 25 and after having a historical rookie year and Papaki #2 even with similar team strength and only playing 10 games. Individually these are insignificant but I have yet to see NFL.com rank us or any of our players similar to ESPN or other national media sites. It really comes off as they are making their predictions from emotion and not with the information available.
Now this year we see the schedule making some pretty unbelievable moves. Giving us 5 early east coast starts against playoff teams or border line playoff teams while adjusting the Niners schedule to only have two early starts and again against the Jaguars and Bucs. Isn't the division winner suppose to have the tougher schedule? I know they can't change what teams we each play but they can make individual games easier or harder. Consider last year the Niners beat both the patriots and Packers on the east coast but both games were moved to later slots but lost to the Vikings and Rams when they had to play early games. You could also look at how slowly both us and the Niners started in our playoff games. It makes a difference and someone in here posted a while back that west coast teams traveling east in an early start have a winning percentage of 22%. That is huge.
Now Mike Carey has a proven track record that doesn't favor Seattle at all. I wish I could find the stats but I know for years when he officiates our games I have come to fully expect game changing calls to go against us and he absolutely never fails. Should we be questioning what is going on if again this year Mike and his crew are somehow calling a large number of our early east coast games?
Tell me if I'm being paranoid or is anyone else starting to connect the dots.
There is at least 16 officiating crews at any one time yet Mike Carey officiated half of our east coast 10am games last year. One against Miami included a horrible call flagging Thomas for roughing the passer ended up being the difference between a win and a loss and the Chicago game where even after one of the best wins we've had in years still had people upset about the way the game was called.
The NFL also commissioned Mike Carey and crew to officiate the super bowl which would have given me nightmares had we gotten there. The paranoid side of me wonders if he was selected just in case because god knows I would have gotten an ulcer waiting for the actual game to be played. Lets not forget they had us play an early east coast playoff game against the #1 seed on our second week of travel. Seems to me that moving that to a later slot would have been pretty obvious but their didn't even appear to be any effort at all to make that happen. Do you think they would make the Packers come west and play an evening playoff game?
The NFL made zero attempt to soften our schedule by moving games out of the early time slot either while simultaneously moving the Niners difficult games to later time slots and only having them play teams that were deemed cream puffs at the time the schedule was being made.
During this offseason we have seen NFL.com repeatedly rank anything Niners above us and in some cases significantly like Jimmy at #2 and Pete at #15 or Wilson #5 out of 5 of the QB's under 25 and after having a historical rookie year and Papaki #2 even with similar team strength and only playing 10 games. Individually these are insignificant but I have yet to see NFL.com rank us or any of our players similar to ESPN or other national media sites. It really comes off as they are making their predictions from emotion and not with the information available.
Now this year we see the schedule making some pretty unbelievable moves. Giving us 5 early east coast starts against playoff teams or border line playoff teams while adjusting the Niners schedule to only have two early starts and again against the Jaguars and Bucs. Isn't the division winner suppose to have the tougher schedule? I know they can't change what teams we each play but they can make individual games easier or harder. Consider last year the Niners beat both the patriots and Packers on the east coast but both games were moved to later slots but lost to the Vikings and Rams when they had to play early games. You could also look at how slowly both us and the Niners started in our playoff games. It makes a difference and someone in here posted a while back that west coast teams traveling east in an early start have a winning percentage of 22%. That is huge.
Now Mike Carey has a proven track record that doesn't favor Seattle at all. I wish I could find the stats but I know for years when he officiates our games I have come to fully expect game changing calls to go against us and he absolutely never fails. Should we be questioning what is going on if again this year Mike and his crew are somehow calling a large number of our early east coast games?
Tell me if I'm being paranoid or is anyone else starting to connect the dots.