Refs Bail Out Giants, Cite Obscure BS Rule

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Originally Posted by CoMoChief

A player is ruled down when he goes down..or kneels without making an attempt to progress forward. In this case refs partially used better judgement and common sense being that they ruled he was avoiding contact by going down..surrendering his forward progression ...I 100% agree with the call.

No way in hell did he exercise an obvious give up situation. Hell, ive seen players fall similiarly, not get touched, get up and run it in for a TD. If he wanted to "give himself up" he would have slid. he DID NOT slide, therefore he wasn't down.

It's not the refs job to use "better judgement", "common sense" and help played "avoid contact". It's their job to REF THE F*CING GAME, which means enforcing the rules, not intrepreting them on a sitation to situation basis (that always seem to benefit NY and Pitt and the like, never Arizona or Tennesee).