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Originally Posted by BlackOp
Every team fans hate NE because of shit like on Monday. They played arguably the best set of offensive skill players in the NFL and didn't get flagged on a single defensive penalty.
NE led the NFL in scoring drives aided by defensive penalties last season...They had a game winning TD against the Texans that hit the ground and the NFL let it stand after review.
People are sick of this shit...and want to watch evenly officiated games...not the most marketable QB get every conceivable break. The Jaguars AFCC game was an officiating abortion...and the Pats had one penalty.
Your fans entitlement makes it even worse...acting like this hasn't been going on forever.
Brady/Belichick are generally good enough to win a lot of games....when they arent, the NFL steps in and ensures they do. I've seen it over and over again...sometimes to the point of ridiculousness.
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I do not disagree with the point that the NFL is selling a product and frankly imo are just as concerned with ratings as the sport itself and can tend to lean things in a given direction to achieve a given result.
With that said fan bases will always have a bias toward their team not getting the calls and/or the good teams get the calls.
Sure we have gotten our share of calls but they have also gone against us. At the same time though BB makes sure our team is disciplined and we either do not take or cut/bench players that make mistake or penalties. This is why more often than not we have less penalties.
Maybe after 9/11 the NFL was happy the Pats would win the SB and perhaps let us get away with being rough in the SB, but at the same time 05-07 there were a handful of games ('05 Div game Den.,'06 AFCCG and '07 reg. season colts) when it seemed that the NFL was trying to get NE out of Manning way. Which frankly kind of happened again in our opinion in the regular season game in Denver '15 preventing us from locking of HFA in early December. We ended up going to Denver and lost by 2 points, maybe that is different if we play in Foxboro.
Yes there were a few catches last year that could of gone either way, but there were two calls in the SB on Phila TDs that could have too, so it kind of balances out in the end.
Yes the Jags had a few calls in the AFCCG last season, but hey do not ride our WR out of bounds without looking back and you will not get a flag.
I fully understand your point as I have had the same concerns when playing the Yankees or a team play Duke basketball, it always seems the good teams get the calls. Which can be true to a point, but that the same time the better teams will play more disciplined.