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Originally Posted by Sun Tzu
The game was filled with atrocious calls, and unfortunately most seemed to go against the 49ers. Justin Smith was being shoved pretty harshy by a ref that is widely known to have a "tough guy" image. Smith basically pushed the refs arm off of him (he had been pushed a solid five yards by now) and then the ref looked at him wide-eyed like he was going to sock him in the mouth. Total classless move by the ref, and it's a shame that a nice guy like JS had to be the bear the brunt of it. Another shitty call was the "facemask" penalty that negated the Ginn return for TD. If that was a facemask, then you may as well call that penalty on every player, every play. Ridiculous.
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As a fan watching how many horrible penalties & bad ref calls go against the Chargers over the last few years (Ed Hochuli in Denver for example), last night was nothing.
I actually did not see where the 49er committed a face mask penalty on that kick off return. However, I did see what looked like that a Charger was doing the face mask. Then again, the 9ers did get away with a block in the back and holding on the return. The penalty that blew me away was the one called against the 49ers DB on the sideline. Horrible call.
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Still, I think the Bolts would have won. Everyone expected Sing to get out-coached, and it played out like I expected.
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Yup, penalties aside, when your game plan excludes your best receiver (Vernon Davis), not sure how you can expect your team to win. You know your team is destined to have a bad year when you can't even take advantage of a penalty on a field goal that gives you first down and you go away with zero points because you got stuffed on the goal line.
I say, lose out the rest of the season, get some good draft picks and don't be scared to sign some good free agents in the off season (mainly a QB) and get a coaching staff that doesn't look like they just showed up to a funeral.
Regardless though, this will NEVER make up for Super Bowl 29!!!
