Ravens cry foul over noncall on final play of loss to Chiefs

[Hammock Parties]

BITTER RATBIRDS

https://www.baltimoresun.com/sports/...209-story.html

As Ravens quarterback Robert Griffin III dropped back to pass on what proved to be the final play of Sunday’s game, the odds were not good.

The Ravens were down a field goal in overtime. Starting quarterback Lamar Jackson was out with an ankle injury. Under two minutes remained. The team faced a fourth-and-22 from its 41-yard line. According to ESPN, the Kansas City Chiefs’ win probability was over 79 percent.

But after the pass fell incomplete and the 27-24 overtime loss was sealed, the Ravens were unhappy the game hadn’t lasted at least a play longer. Coach John Harbaugh, wide receiver Willie Snead IV and Griffin said the officials missed a pass-interference penalty on Chiefs cornerback and Baltimore native Kendall Fuller.

The penalty would’ve produced an automatic Ravens first down and kept alive their hopes for a game-tying field goal or game-winning touchdown.

“Yeah, I saw it,” Harbaugh said. “I think you guys should write what you see. You want us to get up here and criticize the officiating. You saw the officiating all day. You know what it was. You should write what you see. You don’t get fined for it, right?” (Coaches are subject to NFL fines for criticism of the officiating.)

Griffin said he didn’t have a chance to warm up before entering the game facing a third-and-22. His first throw was an incompletion, and after Jackson did not return to the huddle, the team’s third-string quarterback dropped back one final time.

He targeted Snead, running an out-breaking route close to the line to gain. “I was like, ‘I got a chance here,’ ” Snead recalled thinking. Had he made a sixth catch Sunday, the reception might have come up just short of the 37-yard line he needed to reach.

But he said he felt premature contact from Fuller, and Griffin saw the same.

“I mean, of course I did,” said Snead, who had a team-high 61 yards. “I thought that. At the end of the day, it’s out of my control. I got to catch the ball, but I felt like I would’ve been short anyways, but at the end of the day, there was contact. But it is what it is. You just got to learn from it and move on.”

He added: “There were calls we could’ve got all over the game, but at the end of the day, it came down to that play. I didn’t get the call. At the end of the day, I didn’t get the catch.”

Griffin, who said he hadn’t been able to watch a replay of the coverage, blamed himself for not throwing a better pass. But he pointed to the Ravens’ indignant sideline reaction as a reflection of his own perception of the noncall.

“I felt like Willie ran a great route and the DB got there a little early, and they didn't call it,” Griffin said. “It makes me feel a little bad. I feel like I let the team down in that situation. I was ready to go and I tried to do the best I could at that time. Just wish I could've done more."

[pugsnotdrugs19]

Originally Posted by PAChiefsGuy

Crybabies. They had a chance to win the game several times and blew it.

No kidding.

They had us at 4th down to win the game twice on our final regulation possession. No excuses.

[Imon Yourside]

Originally Posted by PAChiefsGuy

Crybabies. They had a chance to win the game several times and blew it.

This place would blame our defense because it happens quite a bit, and rightfully so.

[staylor26]

Originally Posted by Buckweath

There were quite a few questionable bad calls non-calls.

Fuller could certainly have been called for DPI on that last play but what helped him IMO is the fact that he was really playing the ball when the ball arrived. Anyways, you see that type of contact not being called all the time.

It will be called at times, quite simply.


As for the Crabtree OPI, anytime that you make that movement of extending your arm towards a defender, I don't care if you actually pushed the defender or not, you can get called for that and you cannot complain. Just don't extend your arm towards a defender and you won't have no problem.

You’re imagining him extending his arms. It didn’t happen.

[scho63]

Harbaugh pushed back on the refs pretty strongly during the entire game and at one point I think he was close to an unsportsmanlike conduct. I think the ref had to tell him to chill out or else.

[tooge]

Just watched it again. Fuller is looking at the ball, and he makes a play with his left hand for the ball with perfect position on Snead. Had they called DPI, which can be called on most plays, it would have been a bad call.

[Dayze]

time to pay the piper for the token Raw Lewis farewell Super Bowl.

[TomBarndtsTwin]

Harbaugh was just advocating for his team during the game. He’s passionate. I don’t fault him for that.

That said, bitching about officiating AFTER the game is over is weak sauce for a head coach. Act like a man. Winners win, losers whine . . . . .

[O.city]

The grabby and physical Ravens are whining about not getting a pass interference call?

Yeah, I'm here for that.

I'm also here to tell them to go **** themselves. They hit our QB late a few times, didn't get flagged. They held Tyreek on a double move, didn't get called.

[Buckweath]

Originally Posted by staylor26

You’re imagining him extending his arms. It didn’t happen.

He did. That's precisely why he got the penalty. I saw the replay.

[-King-]

Meh. This is why I don't do the whole THERE'S A CONSPIRACY BY THE REFS shit. Every teams gets helped out or ****ed over by refs throughout the season. They could have called DPI on that play or OPI on one of Tyreeks sideline catches or Roughing through passer on the hit Mahomes took on 3rd and 15. Cant get too hung up on what's called and not called. At the end of the day though, we won.
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[staylor26]

Originally Posted by Buckweath

He did. That's precisely why he got the penalty. I saw the replay.

I was being sarcastic because Hamas swears it didn’t happen

[ChiefsCountry]

Jesuits wanted the Chiefs to win apparently.

[lcarus]

I thought the pushoff on Crabtree was honestly a shitty call but it was a makeup for the block in the back they called on the beautiful Spencer Ware play on the Chiefs drive right before that. 2 drives in a row basically ended by ticky tack BS penalties. NFL refs are shit.

[petegz28]

You wanna bitch about bad officiating....talk to Cinci who had a TD taken off the board because after review they deemed Driskel was giving himself up as he dove for the goal line stretched out trying to score...

Yeah...that's the 3rd, absolutely horrific call that favored the Chargers this year.

[IowaHawkeyeChief]

The first touchdown by the Ravens on a rush by Dixon was a clear and obvious hold on Bailey. This would have marched them back 10 yards and made it much harder. This was very obvious and gets called most of the time.