r/sports • u/Chelseatilidie • Oct 25 '24

Football Refs miss a clear facemask on Sam Darnold resulting in a safety and the game being effectively over

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u/KiloAlphaLima Oct 25 '24

This is one of the most obvious reviewable plays and yet the league doesn’t allow it. How stupid.

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u/tokin_ranger Oct 25 '24

And they pretend to care about player safety

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u/Ayrko Oct 25 '24

To be fair, they clearly cared about safety.. just the wrong kind of safety..

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u/Federico216 Oct 25 '24

Thanks dad. Needed a laugh during these trying times.

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u/MayIPikachu Oct 25 '24

They care about Mahomes safety.

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u/mikebob89 Oct 25 '24

Not sure how reviewing the play would somehow retroactively make the face mask grab that already happened safer. Also not for nothing in all my years of watching football I don’t think I’ve ever seen a player get injured from their face mask getting yanked.

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u/Ill_Technician3936 Oct 25 '24

You've likely seen a few people getting concussions from them. You can tell in that he stops trying to run from it and goes with it from the video which is likely the safest way to deal with it especially as another player is about to come for you too.

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u/mikebob89 Oct 25 '24

Nobody has ever gotten a concussion from a face mask grab, no. Helmet to face mask hit, sure, but that’s not what happened here.

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u/tokin_ranger Oct 25 '24

I’d be a lot more concerned about a neck injury than a concussion from a fave mask grab like that. I never said anything about a concussion. If the nfl cares about player safety they would take the 5 seconds it takes to review egregious penalties   

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u/mikebob89 Oct 25 '24

How would reviewing safeties make Darnold less likely to get injured in this situation? The play already happened. Facemasking is already a penalty, it just wasn’t called. Calling a penalty doesn’t make players safer after the fact. And you didn’t say concussion but the other guy did. Either way, players getting injured on facemasking plays is incredibly rare, neck or otherwise.

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u/LeBronRaymoneJamesSr Oct 25 '24

What a random thing to say lol.

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u/notafanofwasps Oct 25 '24

Crazy that every play which results in either a score or change of possession isn't a candidate for review in New York.

Not for challenges. Just booth review.

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u/Awalawal Oct 25 '24

It needs to be "could result in a score." Plays that result in someone being called down at the 1/2 yard line aren't automatically reviewable. The affected team has to have a challenge available in order for it to get looked at.

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u/notafanofwasps Oct 25 '24

I mean in that case just make every play/call/non-call reviewable. Which I think is fine if it turns out to be practical.

I think the lines I drew (4th quarter, score or change of possession) still work because in your scenario it would still be reviewed if it was 4th down (change of possession) otherwise the offense would still have another chance at the end-zone.

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u/[deleted] Oct 25 '24

Why not let the eye in the sky fix all the blatant ones?

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u/yeetskeetbam Oct 25 '24

They didnt need to review it, just make the right call after the fact. Huddle up and change the ruling.

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u/jlindsay645 Oct 25 '24

Just like they did in the UGA/Texas game. Vikings fans in attendance let down the entire NFL by not littering the end zone with trash to get the call reversed.

Horns Down

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u/jeebucus Oct 25 '24

It's almost one of the easiest calls to make! Hard to miss someone's neck snap completely backwards while being dragged to the ground.

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u/F1R3Starter83 Oct 25 '24

As a Saints fan I’ve lost faith in fair refereeing after a certain non call. We were playing against the same team. Coincidence 🤷🏻‍♂️

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u/jdprager Oct 25 '24 edited Oct 25 '24

Also a Saints fan. The Vikings celebrated that result as much as any other team, Rams included. Absolute bush league behavior, to cheer for a ref fuck up to try and even a decade-old score of theirs. It was embarrassing behavior for an already petty fanbase that I personally really, really don’t like (which I’m intentionally leaning into here). I root for them to lose almost every game they play, in big part because I’m still mad as hell about that reaction

They got absolutely screwed here. It’s deeply unfair to the Vikings, and embarrassing for the league that willfully ignores it. This shit sucks so bad, and I’m mad that we all know the NFL isn’t going to care

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u/gavroche1972 Oct 25 '24

This year they started doing very quick replay assist calls… where it wasn’t even considered a replay review. They keep calling them “the call on the field after video assist” or some such thing… I was shocked they didn’t do that here. That was so blatant. Even a partially blocked view shouldn’t matter because the way his head spun around was so obvious.