I left out everything that I thought was largely unimportant.

The face mask penalty you are referring to happened on 1st down and the Packers punted on that drive. No factor.

On the Packers TD drive, they got ONE 1st down off penalty. That was the controversial PI call against Chancellor on Finley on 3rd and 2. I specifically talked about that call. The replay shows that Chancellor’s helmet hit Finley in the back well before the ball arrived. It was actually the RIGHT call.

Both Jennings in the first place, and then Rodgers on the review, had that first down. Right call.

The refs don’t account for the fact that until the horrific roughing the passer call, the Packers had 184 yards in the 2nd half to Seattle’s -1. And your assertion that without some sort of help, the Packers wouldn’t have scored in the 2nd half is not based on anything shown by the tape of that game. Frankly, its delusional.

Who the fuck cares about the Seattle game anymore? Are you too busy Shawn with the stock market, kids soccer, staff meetings, church time with the wife, long work travel days…..

Christ…

At the end of the play, Sydney Rice attempts to jump over Shields to catch the ball. On tape, you can see that Shields grabs the bottom of Rice’s jersey to impede his leap for the ball. Rice’s jersey clearly stretches away from his body, which is a red flag for the refs to call a penalty.

I don’t think it is fair to penalize Shields here because Rice at the same time has his hands on Shields’ head and shoulders in an attempt to impede Shields from jumping for the ball. So, it should be equal action and no call, in my mind.

But, there IS a reason to flag Shields here, and this call is not as bad as the PI against Shields in Indy and neither are as bad as the egregious Roughing the Passer call that started this drive.

Also, the PI came right after two consecutive holding calls on Seattle. Both of which, also could be argued were invalid.

For real, as soon as the 2nd holding was called, I turned to my wife and said, “Here comes a penalty on the Packers.” The only surprise here is that the make-up call came on the very next play instead of 3rd down.

Lastly, I also want to quick note that yes, the Seahawks had 8 sacks in the 1st half. However, on one of those sacks Rodgers simply fell down during one of the strangest stumbles I’ve ever seen a QB take in the pocket.

My only complaint is there was no mention of the phantom Sam Shields pass interference. At the time of the play, I said it was probably the worst call I had ever seen in sports. Little did I know it would be trumped later in the same game.