RichNhansom":pj0aymgd said:
I understand what you are saying but trying to write off the officiating completely when you watch a game like this one is as ignorant as blaming every loss on it or every win on luck.
Yeah, but even that ends up being a matter of perspective, which can often tell you more about the speaker than about what happened.
Examples:
* If you go on the Zone they're saying you guys still got the benefit of calls in that Cardinals game.
* Cardinals fans don't believe that you guys get hosed on calls, just you guys do.
Are we supposed to believe that they're all "motivated" in these beliefs and only you guys aren't "motivated"? C'mon, that's ridiculous.
*By way of example, It was the same thing in reverse after the Lions game, in which the known world including even some Hawks fans, KJ Wright, and Pete Carroll believed that the game had been won on a blown call, but that opinion was wildly unpopular among Hawks fans. Same with the fail mary, which Hawks fans still try to excuse, or with the blown call that allowed the 9ers to win the NFCCG against the Giants that some 9ers fans still try to talk away.
You're going to blame it on me being a 9ers fan (the common go-to; in the offseason I didn't like the Cary Williams signing because I was a 9ers fan, whatever), but I watched this game from start to finish, and I don't think the officiating in it stood out as particularly bad when compared to other games.
My point is that officiating is pretty high variance, and over the long-term evens out. Therefore, complaining about it when your team loses or is on the short side of variance is just pretty corny. Either you accept that, or you talk yourself into believing there's a conspiracy against your team because I don't know why.