2021 NFL season - Week 6 thread

Part of me is furious about how bad the refs were but while I think we got the worst of it it's fair to say they were abysmal for both teams, and that was really the worst refereeing performance I've ever witnessed, just repeated incompetence. The time out that wasn't was the worst one, but there were so many bafflingly incompetent calls, any neutral, or Packers fan for that matter, watching will corroborate.

From a bears perspective though it was depressing viewing, whiffed tackles, fields poor with the exception of one or two drives where he showed something, and watching Aaron Rodgers telling the fans he owns them. Which, he's not wrong, is he? But still, a lack of class. Anyway, we can't beat a defense missing most of its key players, we are exactly where we were last year, beating **** teams and losing to anyone remotely good. Jody good enough not to be able to fire anyone.

The most frustrating part about the referees is you know absolutely nothing will happen. The TV broadcast just falls silent most of the time there is a horrific call or the colour guy will say "boy I'm not sure about that". No f*cking sh*t you're not sure.

There are even journalists now who seem afraid to call out the refs. Mina Kimes from ESPN made a tweet critical of some of the calls like the offside that wasn't given or when Rodgers grabbed Mario Edwards facemask and pulled him to the ground only for them to call a taunting penalty on Edwards for pointing at Rodgers after he did it. She then deleted the tweet a few minutes later, probably worried there would be some blow back given she works for an NFL rights holder.

So the Steelers were up 14-0 at halftime and it all looked pretty much done and dusted. Now it's the end of the third and the Seahawks are on the move at the Pitt 15 with the score right now 17-14 Steelers.

Dak lost control of the ball before he got to the line. That was quite clear and I've watched it again because of your post.

I agree there's some mistakes but we're all human and it happens. I agree with technology being used for TD reviews but the world has gone nuts looking for perfection all the time.

Next you'll want robots playing the game.

And here’s my comment from last night to which I referred to in my post earlier about thinking dak got in.

Serious red zone defense from the Titans to this point. Bills have been deep in it twice and they've six points to show for it.

It's 6-0, Bills defense has been awesome so far. Derrick Henry has 8 yards on four runs, Ryan Tannehill 16 passing yards to this point.

Scratch that, as I was about to post Henry breaks out for 76 yards and a TD. 7-6 Titans.

Titans scored on about 6 straight drives. If Titans won the toss in ot it was over. They figured they had a better than 50% chance to score there.

If they were stopped on the redzone a few times they could be stopped again the next drive even if they win the toss. You figure you will have to score at some point. May as well try when you are close.

Yeah and they could stop the Titans too.

It made absolutely no sense that I can see going for it there from a math or football perspective.

But you are not more than 50%, you've got 22 seconds, with a timeout, so running the ball is a one time thing and you've already failed running it twice. You've been stopped in the red zone three times already too. Odds of a TD are at most 33% given all those factors but really only around 16%.

Also you've held them to a field goal on two of their last four drives.

9-5 to bring me to 61 - 33 overall