2025 WATCH PARTY: WEEK NINE

[T Town Tommy]

I have to wonder if Hugh Freeze survives the season.

Auburn is now 4-5 with Mercer, Alabama and Vanderbilt left.

Odds are very high they finish 5-7, and that would make it their 3rd consecutive losing season under Freeze and their 5th consecutive losing season overall.

It's crazy how Auburn let go of the Gus Bus and they ended up worse for it.

The Blue Jays outscored Auburn. Geez.

 

[SportsingHard]

The Blue Jays outscored Auburn. Geez.

Like the Spinal Tap dwarves towering over Stonehenge.

 

[burmafrd1944]

Supposedly, replay refs didn't do the right thing because they deemed the camera angle itself to be unreliable. Not sure if that's true, but it would be incredibly dumb.

you need mean old refs who do not mind making their colleagues look stupid by reversing their calls to do this

 

[Bane]

We're getting to a point where something about the review rules need to be tweaked. Way too much deference is given to the call on the field. Every week there's a few games where a call is upheld and the booth rationale is "Yes the entire runner and his extended family are having a picnic beyond the line to gain, but we can't see the ball behind his forearm so we can't say for certain that the ball didn't momentarily escape to a pocket dimension. Call upheld because we just don't have the evidence."

This play is the opposite but just as stupid. Any person with eyes can look at that ball and put together that it's not going to hit the line, but because the ball dissappears for a second, there's a chance the ball carrier is Mr. Gadget so the call is upheld.

I have always hated the concept that call on the field is gospel without "clear and obvious" evidence or whatever. Excuse me, the whole reason we have instant replay now is because we all collectively acknowledged the refs get the call on the field wrong sometimes (a lot), the whole deference to the call on the field is to assuage the ego of the ref.

My perfect system is the replay refs aren't watching the game and don't have any communication with the refs on the field, they get buzzed to look at a play without any foreknowledge of the call on the field, and they make the call fresh. They then buzz down the call and that is what the call is.

 

[Jiggafini19Deux]

6-2, 2-2 Miami. Pretty hilarious.