The NFL has to fix the officiating. I don’t care for either team but these are 3 blatant penalties that should never be missed.
Wednesday, 12 Mar 2025
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This happens in literally every game and will for as long as human referees are utilized
The Lions have ALWAYS gotten ALL the calls to go their way!! That’s how they’ve won so many championships over the years.
breaking news calls are missed every game
“I don’t care for either one but here are 3 cherry picked examples against one team” lol
i’m sure lions fans could find the reverse of the packers doing the same shit all game but why would they? they won lmao
I want to congratulate all the Lions fans out there, from personal experience I can say posts like these are when you know you made it
Oh no! The Packers didn’t get those calls after 20 years of getting away with holding from their OL? Anyways…
If you click on any of these guy’s profiles it’s always a packers fan. The meltdown is really hilarious
My unpopular opinion is that the refs, in general, actually do pretty well given the speed and complexity of the game. It’s a lot easier for us to point out mistakes when we get to watch TV angles and slow motion replays.
Once we had that injury timeout for the ref, I figured we’d see a lot of this.
There was also an incredibly soft holding call on the Lions final drive that almost pushed the game to OT. Calls get missed, bad calls get made, it’s completely subjective based on what the refs see in real time.
You could call a penalty on every play.
Go cry elsewhere
There was a lot of holding on GB too that wasn’t called. And one of facemasked called, showed both linemen face masking each other only one (Lions) were called.
Let’s revisit all the illegal hands to the face called on Trey Flowers to gift the packers a game winning drive a few years back. This is karma for the Packers.
I too want six hour games where every single player is watched by their own dedicated booth ref and every penalty is enforced
There’s already too many penalties called.
You could do the same 3 frames of Packer’s players committing penalties, but no one does because they lost.
There’s at least 1 significant penalty on almost every play. Premiere pass rushers like Parsons and Hutchinson get held basically every play.
You can argue that the officiating is bad, and you’d probably be right, but this is cherry picking of the highest order.
Imagine bitching about the LIONS having a couple calls go their way.
Jesus can we not do this? The officiating wasn’t particularly bad last night. I’m not trying to watch flags every play.
FTP
Do you guys ever get tired of crying about the refs? The Lions played better and deserved to win, like what happens in 99% of all NFL games.
I could find a screen grab of the same going the other way. Lousy.
You know how many times as a Lions fan I’ve watched my team get absolutely screwed with penalties for the last 2 decades?? Don’t even want to hear it right now!
Breaking news the refs are human
Breaking news the refs are paid directly by the league and answer only to the league.
Packers fans once told me that good teams don’t let bad calls determine the outcome.
It’s wild how 1 coaching change has turned me from not paying attention to the Lions to actively rooting for them to win the Super Bowl.
You people are pathetic, can we stop with this?
A *Packers* fan complaining about officiating. The irony…
Somebody call the wambulance.
OP should dive into the muddied recent history of refs screwing over Lions when they play Green Bay
This is a dumb post. Refs are humans and will miss calls. There will be missed calls like this you can find in most games if you use replays.
No the refs aren’t biased or out to get anyone, no they aren’t paid off by the other team. They’re just humans and miss calls sometimes. Relax.
Better teams, a lot of the times, get the benefit of the doubt.
Unrelated but kind of related: I remember watching Greg Maddux pitch back in the 90s and he had *such good control* that a lot of home plate umpires would give him some extra inches on the corners. Maybe even subconsciously, because his catchers never had to move their gloves.
I watched the Packers hold the Lions defense multiple times. Blatant obvious ones. Can find a hold on just about every play if they really wanted to.
How do people not understand that human referees are going to miss calls. Thats part of the game as of right now. Should it be? No. But it is.
As a Chiefs fan …..HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA.