In Reply to: Raiders screwed by officials posted by Oucho Cinco on November 27, 2006 at 21:30:18:
: I am not a Raiders fan, but my wife is. We watched the game Sunday and saw the egregious call by the officials.
: I'm sorry guys the NFL Rules committee screwed you big time.
: I thought the Raiders played a great defensive game for the most part. There were only a coule of lapses that hurt you, but those lapses would not have occured, at least at the time they did, because you should have had the ball driving again.
: I think your team shows alot more ability than the record shows.
: Better luck up to the time you have to play my team, then all bets are off!!! :)
I'd love to blame this loss on the refs, but the lack of an offense is what killed us again. Or if Randy Moss would have played like he cared even a little. It's obvious that he's just going through the motions.
The forward lateral call was bull shit to be sure, but bottom line is that it didn't affect the play. He did catch the ball for the first down and he was just inches from being touched and the spike wouldn't have mattered. It was a bonehead play on his part to be sure, but he still made the first down. It wasn't like the refs gave him a first down by the call.
The call that I was pissed about was the third down play to Parker. He didn't catch the ball and because we didn't have any timeouts, we couldn't challenge that call.
If they don't give him that catch there, it's fourth down and they have to kick a field goal. Being down three points there, I think we could have driven 25 yards to get the field goal to tie and who knows what would have happened in O.T.
It's a shame that the D could hold L.T. down for most of the game and then lose it at the end.