marty
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They were the most penalized team last year, but I would also say they also got away with more NON-calls than any other team in the league. The current team has NO regard for the rules. Washington just got a makeup call, as they flag Woodson for a ticky tack PI, on 2nd down, about 8 minutes left in the game. An announcer said that that is Woodson's game, and he probably could get called a lot more for it, but he is just known as a physical player. Bishop is flagged for PI (6:50 in the game), the officials met and decided it was NOT a penalty. The replay showed, and Aikman commented that Bishop made contact with Cooley's back, and then held his arm BEFORE the ball was there, and you can see that on the replay. I'm not sure why the officials overturned it. Maybe they thought Bishop was looking forward and was going to the ball, and hitting Cooley's back and holding his arm was all incidental. On the next play, on 3rd down, the Redskins did a long pass where if they HAD called PI on Nick Collins, it would have been ticky tack, but the crowd was yelling for it. I don't think THAT should have been called. It's funny, because it's led to a discussion with the commentators about all the contact by the Packer 2ndary. They're going through the film saying, 'I think THIS one was PI, but this one WASN'T, but this one should have been, this other one was real close .... '
< Message edited by marty -- 10/10/2010 3:00:40 PM >
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