It is not the replacement refs fault (as such) that they are grossly incompetent, but it is the Leagues fault they cannot use a large pool of highly competent and experienced refs available if they would just agree to continue to the guaranteed pension plan to which they previously agreed. Again I note the comment made (I think during last Mondays game) that we are not even getting the backups, because the best non-NFL refs are all working for the SECAA calling high profile games there. We are getting the dregs, and it shows.


Like I say, I REALLY want to see this play, because when you put it like that, that is actually true on a football field: If a player on one team takes a ball away from a player on the other before the whistle blows, forward progress is stopped; before the ball carrier is DOWN, the player who strips the ball gains possession. In the case of receivers stripping defenders that is doubly so, because when possession is contested, simultaneous possession goes to the RECEIVER (one of many football rules favoring the offense.)

So if that how it is actually went—the Packers DB did not take a knee, go out of bounds or otherwise end the play before stripped—yeah, that sounds like a TD.