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[Hog's Gone Fishin]

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Jeff Triplette Painted His Personal Masterpiece Before Reportedly Retirin
By: Jason Lisk | January 7, 2018 2:59 pm ET

Jeff Triplette somehow got a playoff game yesterday, and it did not disappoint. Now, I say this as someone who was in attendance at Arrowhead, so feel free to keep my bias in mind. The Chiefs lost the game for a lot of reasons: Kelce’s injury, poor offense in the second half that did nothing, a defense that could not get off the field on third down in the second half, a missed field goal that hit the upright, a touchdown that bounced back into Marcus Mariota’s hands. It was truly a fantastic script and the guy charged with coming up with something that would be a worthy sequel of every other Chiefs’ playoff loss at home deserves an award. Adding Jeff Triplette was simply a stroke of genius.

Jeff Triplette has had a long and notable–often for the wrong reasons–career as a referee. Back in 1999, he hit Orlando Brown in the eye with a thrown penalty flag, damaging his vision. Going back through our site headlines, you get things like “Jeff Triplette somehow reverses this fourth down stop to a touchdown for Benjarvus Green-Ellis,” Jeff Triplette made an egregious illegal hands to the face call against the Lions,” “Jeff Triplette called a ridiculous penalty that negated a Percy Harvin touchdown,” and “Aaron Rodgers got drilled crossing the goal line, leading to a tortured Jeff Triplette explanation.”

Even when there aren’t major controversies, a Jeff Triplette game is always good for some minor confusing gaffe. But man, he saved his best for last, if the reporting from Aditi Kinkhabwala is correct.


Referee Jeff Triplette, who worked yesterday's #Titans-#Chiefs Wild Card game, has told folks around him he's retiring from @NFL officiating. And the heartfelt hugs he exchanged w/ his crew after dinner last night? Def looked like good-bye

First, there was the “forward progress stopped” ruling that prevented the Chiefs from even challenging a fumble. Mind you, this came on a play that has existed since the beginning of football, a blitzing player flying in and hitting someone, instantaneously causing the ball to come loose.



Here was the explanation, which suggests he was watching a completely different game.

Matt Derrick
@mattderrick
Here is referee Jeff Triplett's explanation of the forward progress rulings in #TENvsKC. His explanation of Derrick Johnson's sack and strip defies logic and the visual evidence.

Tennessee kicked the initial field goal after that play to get on the board. He also called a two-point conversion play as forward progress, which was more debatable. We’ve seen officials let a play with the mobile quarterback try to pull away, especially when there was one defender.


#Chiefs sack Mariota on their second two point attempt. If it was a fumble and not a sack, KC would’ve regained the lead with 2 points of their own.

And there was also the completely unnecessary challenge that the Titans had to use simply because Triplette’s crew mis-spotted a ball. I was watching from the stands and was like “uh, I’m pretty sure they just missed that one by about three yards.” Sure enough, they had to conduct a review to move it and give the Titans a first down.

We’ll miss you, Jeff Triplette.


http://thebiglead.com/2018/01/07/jef...-game-fumbles/

Here's why Triplette retired:


http://profootballtalk.nbcsports.com...e-performance/

The Titans and Chiefs played a great game to kick off this year’s playoffs, but former NFL head of officiating Mike Pereira did not like what he saw from the third team on the field.

Pereira blasted referee Jeff Triplette and his crew for a poorly called game, writing on Twitter afterward that they didn’t handle the game like a playoff crew should.

“Horrible way to start the playoffs. I hate to say it but this was not a good performance by the crew. Teams and fans deserve better,” Pereira wrote.

Among the issues:

— Triplette blew the play dead immediately when Chiefs linebacker Derrick Johnson hit Titans quarterback Marcus Mariota, ruing forward progress had stopped and the play was over. Replays appeared to show that Mariota had fumbled.

— On Mariota’s touchdown pass to himself, Triplette wrongly announced that Mariota was an eligible receiver because he was in the shotgun formation. In reality, the ball had been touched by a defensive player, which means every player on the field was an eligible receiver.

— After one penalty, there was a long delay while the officials conferred repeatedly, trying to figure out the right place to spot the ball.

— On a Titans first down, the ball was spotted about three yards short of where it should have been, forcing the Titans to challenge.

— Triplette announced that one Titans penalty was on No. 11. The Titans didn’t have a No. 11 on the field because the player with that number is Alex Tanney, a backup quarterback who is on injured reserve and wasn’t suited up for the game.

— In the final minutes, Derrick Henry tackled, was clearly down and one official blew a whistle. But after Henry went down the ball was stripped from Henry and Johnson picked it up and ran to the end zone, and the other officials allowed the play to keep going even though one had blown it dead. Replay eventually got it right, but once one official had blown it dead, it should have been over there.

Triplette has long had a reputation as the NFL’s worst referee. T

[In58men]

Of course the NFL lets him ref our game.......because we are the Chuefs

[displacedinMN]

**** Triplette.

[arrwheader]

ugh. Just such misery and disappointment with this team. Go Chiefs. This guy would ref our game and completely **** us. All these calls would have changed the game and Chiefs probably would have won ugly.

[Dartgod]

Where did you pull this from? I'd like to see a link.

[Hog's Gone Fishin]

Originally Posted by Dartgod

Where did you pull this from? I'd like to see a link.

I mean't to put it in but I got sidetracked.

http://thebiglead.com/2018/01/07/jef...-game-fumbles/

[straycash]

Would have lost anyway.

[Hog's Gone Fishin]

Originally Posted by straycash

Would have lost anyway.

No , you're wrong. Why do you think the SOB retired immediately after the game ???

[Hog's Gone Fishin]

http://profootballtalk.nbcsports.com...e-performance/

[Yosef_Malkovitch]

Originally Posted by straycash

Would have lost anyway.

Nah, it would have been a (rather ugly) KC win. Followed by getting utterly destroyed in the next round.

[SuperBowl4]

RIGGED!

[TribalElder]

Oh well, at least I didn’t have to watch us lose on divisional weekend

[Frazod]

Jeff Triplette laughs at all of us from the deck of his brand new lake house.

[kcpasco]

Seriously, **** that guy. I hope his retirement is short lived.

[ChiefRocka]

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