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by the way, officiating was awful again yesterday by jt

not sure if it benefitted one team or the other, but I really don't even know why those guys are out there most of the time. Awful.

With as tough as they make things on the defense with illegal contact/defensive holding/PI/etc. the least they can do is enforce offensive holding. And even if they can't do that, you can't allow the OL to be 3 yards downfield on passing plays. I mean, come on.

This same crew does this shit all the time, too. No consistency, everything varies from game to game and crew to crew.