From: curt@oce.orst.edu (Curt Vandetta)
Subject: Re: Niners Beat Aints, Refs
Organization: Oregon State University, College of Oceanography
Date: Wed, 30 Sep 1992 22:28:47 GMT

In article <1aamdjINN6hp@agate.berkeley.edu> rege@bongo.Berkeley.EDU (Ashutosh G. Rege) writes:
>In article <BvCqq9.47I@news.orst.edu> curt@oce.orst.edu (Curt Vandetta) writes:
>>
>>In article <z5_p5vj.mzimmers@netcom.com> mzimmers@netcom.com (Michael Zimmers) writes:
>>>In article <1992Sep28.191955.15422@cs.tulane.edu> buckley@cs.tulane.edu (James Buckley) writes:
>>>
>>>>Remember, the 49ers have to play the Saints one more time this year.
>>>>So I wouldn't get all "high and mighty" just yet ...
>>>
>>>Especially if the officiating is as choice for that game as it was
>>>for last night's.  Even the best teams can't consistently come up
>>>through *that*.
>>
>> I won't argue that the Rice Fumble was a bad call.  It should have been ruled
>> down by contact with the spot of the ball on the 1/2 yard line, since that
>> is where the ball was when his knees were down.  But other than that one
>> call the Refs did all right.
>
>  Sorry, the Rickey Watters 'fumble' was also caused by the ground and 
>  equally clear on the replay. The problem is simple : if a referee for
>  some reason has his line of sight obstructed he won't be able to 
>  tell what happened. With the players moving all over the place that happens
>  all the time. Instant replay has to be back.

   Ok, I must have been changing a diaper or something when this Watters
   fumble occured, because I honestly don't remember it.

   I still think that it is a dumb arguement to argue that the Ref's were
   against you.  Sure they might have had a really lousy night and your 
   team might have gotten the worst of the calls, but claiming that they
   purposely tried to give the game to one team is ludicrous.  I think
   that the fumble calls could have came on the reputation of the Saints,
   they do have a very good defense and are known to cause a lot of 
   fumbles.  Not that, that justifies it, but it could help to explain it.
   And no amount of 'bad calls' on fumbles would make me wish for IR to
   come back.  All IR did was lengthen the game, take away the number of
   plays we get in a game, and totally disrupt the swing of emotions that
   are a very natural part of Football.  Besides all of these plays look
   very close in real time.  Well I'll save my IR arguements for a better
   thread.

   And to justify my comments about the OL play.  True the Saints have
   excellent OLB's and true they have a very good Defense.  But they were
   rushing 4 men, and the outside men were getting to Young before he
   could set up.  Youngs abilities alone kept this from being a major
   problem for the 49ers.  I think that Young had what, 70 yards rushing
   and 170 something passing?  Sure looks like damn good stats to me if
   I'm the defensive coordinator of the Saints.  No matter how many 
   yards Young rushes for, it is not part of the 49er game plan to run
   the QB, so the defense is forcing them out of their game plan.  I
   expect Young will see a lot of blitz's the rest of the year, and very
   few of them will be up the middle.

   Curt
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  Curt Vandetta				College of Oceanography
  curt@oce.orst.edu			Oregon State University

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