The Bucs are not favored by the refs because of Tom Brady

Here we go again with this bullshit narrative about the Bucs being given favorable calls by the refs due to Tom Brady.

It’s not true.

It’s not only not true, the Bucs are next to last in the league in favorable calls.

The complaints you should be making are about officiating LEAGUE WIDE, which continues to be awful. Just because the officials miss some calls on us sometimes it doesn’t mean they’re doing it to help us.

It means they suck at their job.

This bullshit came up yet again this week in the game against the Buffalo Bills, Bills fans are complaining about some bad/missed calls that supposedly let us win the game.  Claiming we got away with DPI (we actually didn’t) and that they were wrongfully called for it (they weren’t).

But frankly, the Buffalo Bills got more than their share of favorable calls and non-calls in that game and that’s something 90% of these people won’t admit to.  They interfered with Gronk more than once, they committed actual roughing the passer on Brady more than once, they were holding the shit out of Vita Vea on Josh Allen’s touchdown run AND were holding several other times in the second half.

I don’t know if the calls were right or not since I didn’t see a replay, but twice in the game when they called holding on Buffalo’s defense they called holding on us too, make it offsetting which negated a first down.  And on one of those calls there SHOULD have been a roughing the passer (that I mentioned earlier) called as well, which I think would have overruled the other penalties.

That particular one wasn’t even close, it should be called 100% of the time.

What makes it really bad is that earlier in the game they called a questionable roughing the passer on us, likely because it looked like the hit was low on Josh Allen.  But even Tony Romo was questioning that one, saying that they “sold” it a bit. It looked like our player was pushed into Allen which would negate the penalty.

The one they didn’t call on Buffalo was blatant.

Speaking of RTP calls.

When Tom Brady is in at QB, we have had ZERO roughing the passer calls made in our favor this season.

ZERO.

The only RTP we got was with Blaine Gabbert in, and if he’s in the game is won already.

Yet, despite this fact, I still see and get into arguments with people claiming he gets calls just for being touched.

It’s simply NOT true.

There also should have been a unnecessary roughness call on Buffalo after a scuffle with Ryan Jensen, which may have included a punch being thrown by a Buffalo player (I’m not sure on that one.)

That would have normally been an ejection if there was a punch thrown.

These calls and non-calls weren’t the main reason Buffalo was able to come back and force overtime, but they were contributing factors in stalling our drives out or extending some drives that led to points for them.

Now most of these are just the refs sucking at their jobs, if you want examples of them being biased I can do that too.

And shocker, it’s not gonna be in our favor.

The game against the New Orleans Saints earlier this year is one of the most egregious examples of bad officiating I’ve seen in a long time.  On an interception thrown by Tom Brady in the first half, two, yes, TWO Saints players committed pass interference on the same play.  They were so blatant that Jon Ledyard actually wrote an article about them for Pewter Report. Yes, the Saints got away with PIs so obvious that even the LOCAL MEDIA, who are usually racing to be the first to write a negative article about OUR penalties to get clicks, wrote about it.

These penalties caused the interception to happen by throwing off the route of the receivers, causing them to not be where Brady was expecting them to be.  On a long pass that was just barely overthrown to Mike Evans, what actually happened was that Saints’ CB Lattimore grabbed him (it’s the only way that fraud and his teammates can handle elite WRs like Mike and Chris) and slowed him down JUST enough to keep him from getting to the ball.  I don’t know if it would have been PI or defensive holding, depends on if Brady had already thrown the ball when it happened.

The only PI they actually called was declined because Mike Evans scored a touchdown on the play.

There was also the usual amount of missed offensive holding calls, which has been a VERY common thing in our games this entire season.

There was a roughing the passer called on us that was frankly a perfect example of “protecting the QB” going too far. It was a terrible call, it wasn’t roughing at all. Their QB didn’t even fall over from it. It not only should not have been called, there should have been an illegal hands to the face penalty called on the Saints because the player’s helmet GOT RIPPED OFF HIS HEAD during that play.

Yes, they called a penalty on a guy without his helmet and didn’t for a second think to find out how he lost it.

This pathetically soft call also negated an awesome interception by Antoine Winfield Jr.

The crew working that game was known for making bad calls like this, and that’s exactly what they did.  They were also targeting us extra hard because Saints’ QB Jameis Winston had gotten hurt earlier in the game.  After that happened they began making more and more ridiculous calls against us, and protecting the Saints by not calling blatant penalties.

This crew known for overprotecting QBs very conveniently missed some roughing calls on the Saints as well. Which is funny since “Brady gets all the calls” as people love to claim.

I’m not gonna complain about the horse collar call since it was very close and unfortunately resulted in an injury.

There were only three penalties called and two accepted against the Saints in that game.

We definitely committed some penalties in that game that shouldn’t we have, but we were also called for several things like holding that weren’t good calls at ALL. While the Saints were committing the SAME penalties, where they SHOULD have been called, and got nothing.

Objectively speaking: the Saints committed SEVERAL more penalties than they were called for and we were called for several penalties we didn’t commit.

Yes we shot ourselves in the foot in that game, no denying that, but the refs shot both of our legs off with a much bigger gun and laughed while doing it.

Tom Brady and his so-called “influence” over the officials meant nothing.

Because it doesn’t exist.

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