Yes, the penalty is a wasted timeout without actually stopping the clock. The timeout (the Bengals had 3) was irrelevant though. It was well worth pulling a Bobby Knight on the football field to sway the refs.

Now Let's Go Chargers

Refs suck. How do you ever miss 12 on the field? Tell me it was Triplette's crew. Lol

Bengals have struck gold with the breaks at the end of games. The offensive PI call against Baltimore may decide the division

But again shame on the refs for missing 12 men on the field

Ironman92;1680281 wrote:Refs suck. How do you ever miss 12 on the field? Tell me it was Triplette's crew. Lol

Bengals have struck gold with the breaks at the end of games. The offensive PI call against Baltimore may decide the division

But again shame on the refs for missing 12 men on the field

Leavy.

sportchampps;1680262 wrote:It's a penalty but it's only a loss of timeout Schwartz did it with no timeouts left so it cost them 15

Azubuike24;1680268 wrote:Yes, the penalty is a wasted timeout without actually stopping the clock. The timeout (the Bengals had 3) was irrelevant though. It was well worth pulling a Bobby Knight on the football field to sway the refs.

Yeah that's what I meant.

wildcats20;1680285 wrote:Leavy.

He's terrible....let me guess his crew threw flags all day at will and then failed to see 12 men on the field?

@DeanBlandino: #CINvsTB replay official was stopping game for review when Lewis threw challenge flag. It would have been looked at regardless.

Mike Pereira retweeted this.

Can that be replayed?

wildcats20;1680298 wrote:@DeanBlandino: #CINvsTB replay official was stopping game for review when Lewis threw challenge flag. It would have been looked at regardless.

Mike Pereira retweeted this.

I find this hard to believe. They had no basis to review the play. You can't tell me the replay official noticed 12 players on the field, when the crew didn't.

Ironman92;1680297 wrote:He's terrible....let me guess his crew threw flags all day at will and then failed to see 12 men on the field?

Most penalties of any game today. I believe 20 total penalties enforced. Some pretty ticky-tack calls on both teams. The Bucs contributed to that. They had a backup center who got called for FIVE flags.

Azubuike24;1680341 wrote:Most penalties of any game today. I believe 20 total penalties enforced. Some pretty ticky-tack calls on both teams. The Bucs contributed to that. They had a backup center who got called for FIVE flags.

Must've all been watching that center instead of counting.

The explanation seems to be one of 2 things.

1. Marvin Lewis is on the competition committee for the NFL. He knew that throwing a challenge flag and making the refs respond to it would at-worst, result in a lost timeout, and not a 15-yard penalty as it used to (someone mentioned Schwartz). This was just changed this year and Marvin would've known that.

2. Marvin Lewis' intention was to buy time to get the refs upstairs to review it, and 12-men on the field is something that is routinely reviewed on each under 2-minute review. Instead of verbally calling the timeout, which they may not have heard before the Bucs snapped the ball, he threw the red flag.

It's clear though. Tampa attempted to cheat on the play, as shown below. Clearly 12-men ready to participate fully in the down.

He said he was out of control not being able to find an official to call a timeout

Ironman92;1680297 wrote:He's terrible....let me guess his crew threw flags all day at will and then failed to see 12 men on the field?

I find this amusing since Leavy handed the Steelers a Lombardi Trophy, with his shitty calls, in the Seahawks/Steelers Super Bowl game. He actually apologized to Seahawks fans after the fact.

BR1986FB;1680521 wrote:I find this amusing since Leavy handed the Steelers a Lombardi Trophy, with his shitty calls, in the Seahawks/Steelers Super Bowl game. He actually apologized to Seahawks fans after the fact.

I always find it funny when steelers fans bitch about refs and the nfl, considering they benefit the most from them.


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like_that;1680534 wrote:I always find it funny when steelers fans bitch about refs and the nfl, considering they benefit the most from them.


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Most fan bases bitch about the refs but for a Steeler fan to bitch about ANY of Bill Leavy's calls is hypocritical comedy gold, imo.

BR1986FB;1680545 wrote:Most fan bases bitch about the refs but for a Steeler fan to bitch about ANY of Bill Leavy's calls is hypocritical comedy gold, imo.

Leavy is and always has been terrible.

Go Steelers!

His crew threw 20+ flags and missed 12 men on the field. Threw 5 flags against the center? They are terrible.

They were terrible in the Super Bowl and whoever decided they should work a Super Bowl because they are one of the best did not do an adequate job.

In their defense, that center was awful. He had at least 2 holds and an illegal snap that I can recall. I believe another for a chop block, as did their TE Oniel Cousins. The Browns fans should remember Cousins. Yes, he actually lined up at TE, went in motion a couple times as well.

Azubuike24;1680749 wrote:In their defense, that center was awful. He had at least 2 holds and an illegal snap that I can recall. I believe another for a chop block, as did their TE Oniel Cousins. The Browns fans should remember Cousins. Yes, he actually lined up at TE, went in motion a couple times as well.

We know him by his birthname...."Turn Stile."