Halo Rule and Bad Officiating

[BIGPHILLY]

Two questions about the fatal muffed punts:

Muffed #1 - Whatever happened to the HALO Rule? Watch the first muffed punt - the guy didn't give Lewis a chance to catch the ball. At all. Did anyone else think this was absurd? I can't find the rule...is there a rule that states a certain distance must be given to the punt returner to catch the ball?

Muffed #2 - Check out this quote from Celek. Why do officials suck so bad?

Celek insisted he was buried underneath a pile of players with full possession of the football on a fumble recovery by the Packers that led to Green Bay's game-winning field goal with two seconds remaining in the game. The scramble for the loose ball occurred after the Eagles' J.R. Reed fumbled a punt. The recovery was credited to the Packers' Jarrett Bush at the Eagles' 31-yard line with a minute remaining.
"We both dove on the ground for it," Celek said. "He had like one hand on it and I took it and I had it the whole time. Neither of us had possession until I took it. I had it the whole time under the pile, and I just heard [the official] holler 'green ball.' I don't understand it, but that's the way it was. I had it in a fetal position and nobody was taking it."

[Leonard Tose]

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i thought they got screwed on both plays. lewis was not given a chance to catch the first one, and celek recovered the second.

that said, i think the halo rule is gone

[tinopuno]

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Two questions about the fatal muffed punts:

Celek insisted he was buried underneath a pile of players with full possession of the football on a fumble recovery by the Packers that led to Green Bay's game-winning field goal with two seconds remaining in the game. The scramble for the loose ball occurred after the Eagles' J.R. Reed fumbled a punt. The recovery was credited to the Packers' Jarrett Bush at the Eagles' 31-yard line with a minute remaining.
"We both dove on the ground for it," Celek said. "He had like one hand on it and I took it and I had it the whole time. Neither of us had possession until I took it. I had it the whole time under the pile, and I just heard [the official] holler 'green ball.' I don't understand it, but that's the way it was. I had it in a fetal position and nobody was taking it."

BP,

In a way, I wish you hadn't posted Celek's comments, because this was the "final straw" for me. Having read them, I now have no choice but to hunt down and kill Mike Carey, the Referee...or to, at least, injure him severely...or to, at the very least, make nasty comments about him under my breath!

Someone has to stand up and shout, "I'm mad as hell and I'm not going to take this anymore!"

[YourPalChrisMal]

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i thought they got screwed on both plays. lewis was not given a chance to catch the first one, and celek recovered the second.

that said, i think the halo rule is gone

The halo rule is, indeed, gone. So that argument no longer applies. I had to talk some co-workers off of that angle this morning.

I hadn't heard the Celek remarks before. THAT sucks. In hindsight, that entire scene was really strange. I remember thinking, "How did they make that call already? There are still 5 guys laying on top of the ball."

[RipRap]

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The competition committee reformulated the "Halo Rule" to read "when god farve is playing on his home turf, his team and he will get every close call. If there is no call, then make one up." I think it's in the official rulebook.

[taz]

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Its simple, If Lewis calls for a fair catch like any person with any punt return experience would have done then then we wouldn't be having this conversation and we wouldn't be putting our game in the refs hands. If JR Reed just gets away from that ball the same thing. Whenever you have to trust the officals to make a call its almost always seems to go against us so why put yourself in that position. No matter what Andy should have had somebody back there who at least returned a punt in High School

[Blitz]

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Two questions about the fatal muffed punts:

Celek insisted he was buried underneath a pile of players with full possession of the football on a fumble recovery by the Packers that led to Green Bay's game-winning field goal with two seconds remaining in the game. The scramble for the loose ball occurred after the Eagles' J.R. Reed fumbled a punt. The recovery was credited to the Packers' Jarrett Bush at the Eagles' 31-yard line with a minute remaining.
"We both dove on the ground for it," Celek said. "He had like one hand on it and I took it and I had it the whole time. Neither of us had possession until I took it. I had it the whole time under the pile, and I just heard [the official] holler 'green ball.' I don't understand it, but that's the way it was. I had it in a fetal position and nobody was taking it."

BP,

In a way, I wish you hadn't posted Celek's comments, because this was the "final straw" for me. Having read them, I now have no choice but to hunt down and kill Mike Carey, the Referee...or to, at least, injure him severely...or to, at the very least, make nasty comments about him under my breath!

Someone has to stand up and shout, "I'm mad as hell and I'm not going to take this anymore!"

I can't stand Mike Carey. Every time he calls an Eagle game I know I am in for a LONG day.

[stocknowledge]

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I'm mad as hell, and I'm not going to take this anymore!

[tinopuno]

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I'm mad as hell, and I'm not going to take this anymore!

OK!


(I'm assuming that you were standing and shouting as you typed)

[saratoga]

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I hadn't seen Celek's quotes before. Now I'm mad as hell too!

At this point, all AR can do is tell this to the league right?

Why he didn't have Westy back there fair catching punts is beyond me.

[YourPalChrisMal]

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I hadn't seen Celek's quotes before. Now I'm mad as hell too!

At this point, all AR can do is tell this to the league right?

Why he didn't have Westy back there fair catching punts is beyond me.

You know the other surprising thing is......how many freaking coaches are there on an NFL team? And not one of them walked up to Reed before he walked out on the field to remind him of the fundamentals. Ya know, "Hey, just be sure you don't muff it, and if there's any doubt in your mind that you can handle it...let it go." That one statement by a coach could have saved us from losing because it was obvious that Reed wasn't thinking when he freaking DOVE for that ball.