Super Bowl LVII disappointment thread

Lol Sufjan

by the letter of the law that may have been a hold but it's the kind of hold that occurs on like half the plays. like I'm pretty sure they let that go a lot when you don't really see the jersey move. and even if it's actually a good call still ending the game on a minor penalty when both offenses were playing out of their mind really sucks given how insane the game was up until then. oh well I like KC and Andy Reid, good for them. I think the ending kinda overshadows how insane Mahomes was given his whole leg situation

Obviously very little restriction on this, and the uncalled DPI in the 1Q was a little more restrictive. Arm does come around, and we agree w/Mike Pereira that we don't have the angle the official had for a potential jersey tug. Given what I see, this would be one to pass on pic.twitter.com/VPvCXMrSz7

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has nothing to do with the time of the game or whatever, it’s just simply not a penalty that should be called. no need to go nth dimensional contrarian voodoo whatever

referees are human and not perfect and nothing is black and white. in baseball, I try to think of a ball that’s an inch out of the strike zone not as an obvious ball but something that’s called a strike 20% of the time; a ball right on the outside corner might be a strike 90% of the time. with this play we’re talking about a <5% situation, just an outlier call that doesn’t need defending

but <5% is mostly not outliers in 1.5*IQR

James Bradberry's own take: “I pulled on his jersey. They called it. I was hoping they would let it ride.”

he’s wrong, it was weak as hell

they ignored worse holds earlier in the game, robbed us of an actual finish

referees are human and not perfect and nothing is black and white

Except their outfits, which are literally black and white

Right, as is often said if you break down the film of any given play in an NFL game chances are you'll find a hold somewhere. I notice it all the time on replays. Certainly when I played in high school I got away with a lot of holds, and I got held a lot. Everyone in the game instinctively kinda knows where the line is even if they do get called sometimes. That's what makes reffing the sport so difficult, you have to let some things slide because otherwise you're throwing 40 flags a game. idk maybe they just get galaxy brain going into these end of game situations, where the talk of how the NFL is scripted or whatever really does get to them, so they go out there thinking they're gonna call it as they see it regardless of the game being on the line. maybe its confirmation bias but I feel like we really do get a lot of unusual reffing in the last 2 minutes of a game. if nothing else it would be cool if they could maybe discuss these potentially history-altering calls a bit before committing to them. I mean up until that point it really was one of the greatest Super Bowls I've ever seen.