I say yes, and I say that because of this.  Now I was happy amidst all of the penalties that the bombers came out on top, who wouldn't be.  But these officials have gotta be held accountable for that inexcusable and excessive drag they put on that game with ridiculous flags, half of which had no legitimacy to them.  I mean, some games I know the players out there will commit more penalties than others, but I have never in all my time of watching the CFL, seen a game where you could just about color the whole field red with how many times that flag was dropped, and I have come to hate those kind of games where you nearly come to anticipate a flag on almost every play, and last night became one of them.  I am personally blaming the officials and Mark Cohon for this, and Chris Schultz was right for calling out this game for going too slow paced.

 

I've come to expect football games to be right about 3 hours long, give or take a serious situation such as an injury or an act of God on the stadium, last night's game, those idiot referees took that 20 second play clock and stretched it into 3 minutes between plays about.  That should never happen in football.

 

I say solve that problem with one of two ways.

 

First, put a limit on how many flags the officials collectively are allowed to throw.  If they exceed that, the whole crew gets slapped with a million dollar fine for obstructing the game progress.  That way they learn to only call blatant penalties, and cannot call tacky ones.

 

Or second, if it happens again, have the league commission review all the penalties in the game, and start fining them individually for every tacky call they make, so that way they get a message sent that these so-called roughing penalties that happen are not to be flagged and players are not to be punished for tough hits they make.  NFL fans have been seeing this happen in their league and getting upset at flags and fines on players for doing this, and I think the CFL needs to make sure they don't go that route either.

 

And finally, get rid of that stupid pass interference challenge rule, it does nothing to make sure the call gets right, it's a disgrace to football, makes for lazy or disgruntled officials, and ruins the pace of the game.  ****** sick of it already.

I don't like the hitting the QB below the knees penalty, but it's in the books so it should be called.

 

The Washington penalty was the right call. The ball had already gone past Stamps and Washington took an extra step to deliver the blow.  I expect he will get a monetary penalty too. 

I don't like the hitting the QB below the knees penalty, but it's in the books so it should be called.

 

The Washington penalty was the right call. The ball had already gone past Stamps and Washington took an extra step to deliver the blow.  I expect he will get a monetary penalty too. 

 

The ball never went past Stamps. It was knocked down before it got to him.

 After watching the replay, Mike's right about the ball being knocked down, not past Stamps.  Still think that it would be called a penalty 90+% of the time and that it wouldn't be called a penalty a few years ago.

I don't like the hitting the QB below the knees penalty, but it's in the books so it should be called.

 

I have no problems with calling a hit below the knees.

 

They are now calling touching below the knees.  That's just horrible.  ODell Willis managed to get his hand on top of Willy's foot.  Calling that was a joke.  Turner managed to get his hand all the way up to Reilly's calf.  That should never be called, but if Willis got 15 for touching Willy's foot then Turner might be facing a lifetime ban.

 

I found it a bit comical that after the Turner/Washington double major that Edmonton ended up 2 yards further away from the end zone than when they started.

TBURGESS, on 18 Jul 2014 - 11:48 AM, said:

 After watching the replay, Mike's right about the ball being knocked down, not past Stamps.  Still think that it would be called a penalty 90+% of the time and that it wouldn't be called a penalty a few years ago.

 

Which is why the official who threw the flag on that should be fired.

 

This is proving my point that making such hits a penalty is a disgrace to football.

 

If I were O'Shea, a former linebacker who know doubt has laid people out on that field and laid a good many jarring hits on the ball carriers, I'd be getting furious at Commissioner Cohon and calling him a **** for turning football into a pansies sport by having these flags thrown.

 

It's a disgrace to good defenses everywhere.

Well, instead of trying to jar the ball lose by hitting the poor guy  the DB's can yell 'BOO' really loud to try and separate the ball.