2021 NFL season - Week 6 thread

Yeah they're like the Seahawks last year.

Didn’t get it. My broadband has decided to throw a wobbler so my viewing of red zone has been spotty at best.

Bridgewater needs to be benched. The guy is like Kyle Orton lite. Absolutely useless. I'd rather ride with Lock, than this guy throwing 2 yards short of the first down marker every time.

2 shocking challenges from him in the last few minutes. Both were obviously not goi g to be overturned, lose timeouts and challenges now. Desperation stuff.

AJ Green looking great in Arizona, looks like the move revitalised him.

Love Dan Campbell, no politics just says it as he sees it. My type of guy.

Wow, that holding call absolutely cost dallas. Thought it was the correct call, Romo called it ticky tack, I thought it was obvious.

Sh1tty interception in Denver. But that game was over. Bridgewater needs to be sat. His best is not good enough.

Fncking hell.... Was there an argument to go down on the 1? Crazy stuff. What's next?

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.

Just a garbage time interception, to go along with his garbage time TD. I think it's time Denver fans just start enjoying the season for what it is, we won't have any say in anything this year....

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.

The frustrating thing is that there are ways the NFL can help fix it but they choose not to, like technology for spotting the ball and an active video ref. I can nearly accept when refs just have a shocker and mess up both teams but there are games where there is clearly different interpretations being used against each team, especially OPI, DPI, protecting the QB (roughing, sliding, going out of bounds), and offensive line holding.

Having said that, I think I am happy that the media are afraid to make a big deal of it. Rugby has become a complete farce due to every tiny decision being called out by commentators and analysts, which then feeds into toxicity of fans and eventually leads to the point where you end up with that Lions Rassie farce. Many times these are 50/50 calls that even out over a season and are just an excuse for commentators from actually doing their jobs actually analyzing the game, which is a much harder job than complaining about the refs.