#478: Minnesota Vikings SCREWED by NFL Officiating

Speaker 1 (00:06):
The Minnesota Vikings fell to the Los Angeles Rams in
Los Angeles Thursday Night Football, thirty to twenty in a
game that looked like the Minnesota Vikings were on a
short week. Penalties everywhere, miss queues everywhere, illegal formation there,
fall start here, and a practical home game for the

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Minnesota Vikings. The Los Angeles Rams do not have a
home field advantage. There's no crowd noise affecting the play
on the Minnesota Vikings offensive side. There's no issues with
communicating with one another because the Rams home field of
advantage is not there. There's a word there that I'm

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looking for, but to describe it, it's not existent. It's
the word I found it. And on this show, we're
going to talk about the end of the game call
that everyone wants to talk about this morning. Sam Darnold
gets wrapped around by the face mask in front of

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two officials and there is no call. Just take a
look at this picture i'm' about to share with you.
How does an official miss this call? Look at that?
It's not like there was some defenders blocking the referees

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path where you know it's a pile up and no,
there's it's blatant as day, and this position is the
most guarded position in sports. You can't touch a quarterback.
You put too much of your body weight on him.
It's a fifteen yard penalty. You go to it's a

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fifteen yard penalty. He touch his face mask as you
go by on a typical play, and it's a penalty.
This guy wraps his hands around Sam Donald, pulls him
down head torque sideways, which is the recipe or the

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thing that you look for in a face mask penalty,
and they don't call it. They keep their flags in
their pockets after they've blown the whistle the entire game.
Defensive holding here, offensive holding here, DPI here, DPI there,

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I legal formation, false start. They had no problem being
front and center of this football game. But then in
the final offensive play for the Vikings, when Sam Donald
gets a rapped around, they keep their flags in their
pockets when there are two officials staring at the play.

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Are you kidding me? After games like this they having
sit down with the officials. And this was posted by
Kevin Seffert and it says question on the Vikings last
offensive play, it looked as if the quarterback had his
face mask pulled what did you guys see on the play?

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Blake response, Well, on that play, the quarterback was facing
the opposite direction from me, so I did not have
a good look at it. I did not have a
good look and I did not see the face mask
of being pulled. Obviously, the umpire had players between him
and the quarterback, so he did not get a good
luck at it. He was blocked out as well, so
that was the thing. We did not see it, so
we couldn't call it. We couldn't see it. Question was

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there a discussion on the field, because obviously the Vikings
were complaining about it. Did your crew have an discussion about, hey,
did we miss this or anything like that on the field? Blake?
On the field, we definitely did discuss it because they
did bring up concerns. We discussed it as a crew,
but we weren't able to see it on the field,
so we weren't able to make that call. Question is

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that play reviewable? Blake? It is not reviewable, which is
the next discussion that people are looking to have. Should
this call be reviewable? You don't want too many plays
to be reviewable. How about the officials do their damn

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job and they see a quarterback's neck torquing sideways in
an unnatural motion. There's already too many stoppages of play.
I don't want another stoppage of play. Stop it here,
stop it. Let's have some game flow. You can't review
every single thing. How about you do your job. Remember

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when defensive pass and inference was reviewable. While they stopped
that because it stopped the game flow. It ruined the game.
Did it ruin the game, but it worsened the game.
That's why they stopped it. Plus well, the good thing
about the face mass penalty, though, is that there's really
no debate, you know, and DPI OPI defensive pass inference

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and offensive pass interference, there's judgment that comes into play.
Face mass penalties are really no judgment. So that makes
it a little different than one of those penalties. But
how about you just do your job and you see
the call. You see a guy's head get wrapped around
like crazy. Now there is responsibility by Sam Darnold because

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he held onto the ball way too long in the
end zone. You got to get rid of the ball.
What are you doing? You do not hold onto the
ball in your own end zone. You've got to get
rid of it because you know they're coming, and Christian
Derris is not in the game, which means that you
should be even more hyper sensitive to the blitz or

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four man rushed from the Los Angeles Rams. So as
bad as the call was, Sam Darnell needs to own
a lot of responsibility for the mistake that he made
because in that spot, when you have a very small
chance of winning anyways and then he does give it
up on one play, makes no sense. I thought this

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was an interesting statistic by Mike Sando Mike Sando at
NFL on his social media It says with the Vikings loss,
NFL teams now have a two to twenty eight record
since two thousand and one, trailing by forty eight points
and they need a touchdown, no timeounts, ninety plus yards

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to go for a touchdown, and one fifty nine to one,
twenty left and regulation. Well, the Minnesota Vikings had under
two minutes and they fell in that category of that
stat The last winner to do it was Baker Mayfield
when he led the Rams in twenty twenty two, Week

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fourteen in Minnesota. We were down by eight, we had
no time ounts, we had to go ninety eight yards
so the likelihood that the Vikings were going to win
this game was slim anyways, But the officials put a
little stain on it. They put a little salt on

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the wound, because that was a terrible, terrible officiating job
at the end of the game, and people are letting
him know, that's for sure, and it was also a
terrible job by Sam Darnold of being aware and having
his sense in the pocket. Thank you for watching and
for listening.