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Originally Posted by Rain Man
That's the key point. Arguing about whether it was a legitimate penalty or not is off point. The calls are too arbitrary and subjective. The real question is whether that flag would have been thrown against every team in the league, and it wouldn't. Some teams consistently get the calls in their favor and others don't.
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The real fact is that Fisher was beat and he held his guy and drew the flag.
Earlier in the game they talked about the delay of game calls. I saw early in the game kc got away with the play clock clearly at zero, then they called the Steelers on it and said sometimes it takes an official time to look up and see the ball not snapped and it benefits the O, they get a second or split second.
If Fisher makes a clean block you guys tie and probably lose on a late FG, who knows. Fisher didn't make a clean block, got caught by an official who saw it and knew it was a foul and did his job.
It isn't whether it gets called consistently, it is that Fisher got caught committing a hold on the biggest play of the game.
If the NFL moved to full time officials and they all called that play 100% then it still would have been a flag. Crying about it not being called 100% of the time when he clearly got caught holding is weak.