Colts Fans Livid at Yesterday's Officiating

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Seth and Sean dive into Colts fans being salty at the way the game was officiated and some of head official Clay Martin's explanations after the game.

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00:00So there were three controversial calls in this game

00:05that went in favor of the Texans.

00:07Says you.

00:08I thought every call was immaculate.

00:10Well, let's see.

00:11We've got the explanations here.

00:12There were three calls in particular that Colts fans were most upset about.

00:17There were a few that were listing other things here,

00:19and 90% of the list, I'm like, Texans can say the same thing.

00:23Holding call on this play, blah, blah, blah.

00:25Stop it.

00:26Right.

00:26Hold on third and four with eight minutes left in the third quarter.

00:30Like, okay, shut up.

00:33But these plays I'm willing to entertain at least.

00:35So let's see, Seth.

00:36I've got the explanations.

00:37It's the three plays, the three instances I should say,

00:41because two of them happened on the same play.

00:43The missed, perceived missed delay of game call against the Texans

00:50on a third down in Colts territory just at the beginning of the fourth quarter.

00:55A pass interference call on that same play and then the ensuing extra point

01:00after the Texans would go on to score a touchdown there.

01:04So here are the explanations, and you tell me if you think these explanations

01:07by Clay Martin, the lead official, hold up.

01:10Okay?

01:11This is in regard to the delay of game with 14-51 remaining in the fourth quarter,

01:17and the Texans snapped the ball a second after the play clock had expired.

01:22Why was delay of game not called on that play?

01:24Clay Martin says the following.

01:27The back judge is the calling official, and there's a process on that.

01:30When the clock hits zero, he looks down to the ball,

01:32and if the ball is snapped as he looks down from the clock to the ball,

01:36we leave that alone.

01:37That's what he ruled on the play.

01:39Follow up.

01:40Is delay of game reviewable?

01:41No, sir.

01:42It's not.

01:43This is the exact same explanation you receive in every single one of these instances.

01:48I've talked to officials about this, and the way it's explained is not the way it's actually executed,

01:55because if you think about the back judge, it's the NFL.

01:58You've got, you know, it's football.

02:00You've got play clocks in either end zone.

02:02They make it sound like the back judge has to unlock a door, run around a corner,

02:10and then use binoculars to see whether the ball is, like, to move his eyes from the clock to the football.

02:19It just takes so much time that somehow the back judge's eyes are moving slowly down,

02:27and by the time he gets there, it's gone.

02:29And the way it's been explained to me, and any officials out there,

02:33please correct me if I'm saying this inaccurately, is that it's a little bit of a feel thing.

02:37Yeah.

02:37That they get a little bit of a leeway there, and that, I don't know.

02:40I mean, for the sake of our sanity, I would say as impartially as possible,

02:45I wish they would be more strict with it, because this is the way that it is called,

02:50and nobody's happy with it.

02:51Right, right, right.

02:52So the explanation for me, I think it holds up.

02:55It never holds up for me.

02:57It's fine.

02:58And yet, there's precedent for this.

03:00Yeah.

03:00It holds up in so much as this was not a great departure from how it's normally called.

03:05The back judge sees the play clock get to zero, takes his reading glasses out,

03:11and de-smudges them, and then puts his glasses on.

03:15And if the ball is gone by that point, then there's no penalty.

03:18De-smudges.

03:19On the same play, what led to the pass interference penalty on Kenny Moore?

03:26This, again, this is a question from somebody in the media for Clay Martin, the referee.

03:29It appeared there was no contact.

03:31Clay Martin says the following.

03:33The calling official had an arm grab at the top of the route.

03:35When you look back, the ball was in the air, and when you see the ball in the air,

03:39that makes it pass interference.

03:41I don't know.

03:41I'm satisfied.

03:42Sounds good to me.

03:43I mean, the previous touchdown the Colts scored, they were set up by Alec Pierce having an arm grab

03:51that he fell down on, on a ball that was clearly uncatchable.

03:54Yes.

03:55I think this was, whether you want to call it a make-up call or using the exact same standards,

04:00that's all valid and real, I think.

04:03Alec Pierce did a great job of selling that.

04:05He got the flag.

04:06Third and 19.

04:08Nico Collins did a great job of selling it, and he got the flag.

04:11And the tit-for-tat on that, I think, if you're a Colts fan, I'd say you can't discuss

04:17that interference without also acknowledging that Alec Pierce's interference, the call that

04:23he drew, was completely bogus as well.

04:24I know you're going to find this hard to believe.

04:25None of them who bring up that pass interference bring up the Alec Pierce pass interference.

04:29Yeah, it's odd.

04:30It's odd.

04:30Yeah, it's very strange.

04:31I thought it was a poorly officiated game in general.

04:33I did, too.

04:34If we're being honest, it was a poorly officiated game.

04:36Early in the text, earned those penalties.

04:38Those were bona fide penalties on offense.

04:40Those were stupid penalties.

04:41They were stupid, yes.

04:43All right, last one.

04:45The extra point.

04:46The Texans would go on to score a touchdown on that drive.

04:49That was the Nico Collins end-around drive.

04:51Beautifully designed play.

04:53So then the ensuing extra point came to go up 20-13, and it did look like on TV that it

05:01missed wide left.

05:03Yeah, Ian Eagle said that he missed it at first.

05:05Yeah, that's right.

05:06That's right.

05:06The commentary.

05:06He's not one of these idiot play-by-play guys that gets it wrong all the time.

05:09No, no.

05:10And they were...

05:10Godless Joe Buck wouldn't have said anything until sometime this morning.

05:13There were Colts players.

05:17Tony Romo would still be asking Gene Steratore what the rule is.

05:20What the rules are.

05:21What is...

05:21Why do they call it an upright anyway?

05:23Yeah, yeah.

05:24I mean, there's one on the left.

05:26Couldn't they just call it a straight up?

05:28Why is the one on the left called an upright?

05:31It shouldn't be an up left.

05:33So even Colts players on the field were giving the, you know, no good sign down there.

05:38Even them?

05:39Even them.

05:39Well, I mean, I'm just saying, like, down on the field, like, in the moment, it looked

05:43like it wasn't good to everybody.

05:44He got the whole thing.

05:46The only people I'm guessing that that kick looked good to was the referee standing underneath

05:51that upright who's looking up at it.

05:53So the question that was asked to Clay Martin on the extra point on the touchdown on that

05:57drive, what led to the PAT being ruled good, it appeared on replay that it was wide.

06:02Clay Martin says, the calling official had the ball above the upright and completely inside

06:07the outside edge of the upright, so he ruled a successful try since the ball was above the

06:11upright, it's not reviewable.

06:13This one is, I would say, that I've learned my lesson time and time again.

06:17Camera angles matter a lot.

06:20And without one camera angle at a right angle in the end zone and one at a right angle on

06:26the end line up 30 feet in the air or so, I think it's just impossible to say.

06:33I would try real hard if I were a Colts fan to give them a pass on this, just because

06:38there's not a good review.

06:40It does, on Black Friday especially, when you can buy high-definition cameras for $29 on

06:45Amazon, it does surprise me whenever there's a situation that could be easily fixed just

06:50by having a stationary camera.

06:53You saw the pylons.

06:55I don't know if they added yet an extra pylon or a camera to the pylons.

06:59Yesterday was the first time I noticed that they look like air filters out there.

07:02Like, they got HEPA filter pylons there with all the extra cameras they have in all of

07:06them.

07:06Yeah, I didn't.

07:07Yeah.

07:08It surprises me that they don't have stationary cameras there that can give you the exact

07:13angle.

07:14Yeah, or even a camera that just, like, shoots straight up the upright there.

07:17Laser.

07:17I want laser beams on the upright's heads.

07:21Hey, was yesterday the first time that we've gotten this season?

07:24I haven't, admittedly, at the home games, I don't watch as closely on TV because we're

07:27in the building.

07:28I don't recall the Texans being involved in a chip inside the football situation like

07:34they were on that second Cade Stover tush push.

07:37Yeah, where they, they, it was obviously by the eyeball, like where, because they don't

07:42use the chip to spot the ball.

07:43They use it to see if it's a first down or not.

07:45Yeah.

07:45And I guess.

07:47Six inches.

07:48Yeah.

07:48It was in the preseason.

07:49Did the Texans have one in the preseason or did I just, I remember it was really way too

07:53long.

07:53Yeah.

07:54Yeah.

07:54I just don't remember.

07:55This was obviously a big, big play.

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