Penalties in focus

This information shines an even brighter light on the Pats-Colts game or more accurately, on the integrity of the officiating in that game. Against the Colts the Pats were penalized 11 times; against the rest of the league they were penalized 67 times, or a bit more than 4 a game. This really smells. I mean fish left in the sun for a week smells. How can the league not investigate this aberration? How can the NFL claim integrity and not address this? Thanks for listening.

Hey Will,

The Colts always get the calls.

Remember three games:

1) Colts game this year ... robbed on numerous occasions

2) Colts AFC Champ game last year .... robbed (hobbs faceguarding)

3) Colts VS Steelers two years ago ... Steelers get robbed on numerous occasions

4) Colts VS Chargers two weeks ago ... Chargers got flagged on a number of questionable calls

This is all due in fact to a number of reasons:

a) The NFL loves Peyton Manning, Dungy and those Colts

b) Tony Dungy sits on the competition committee and thus has a say in new rules and rule changes ... I think refs are afraid to make calls sometimes on them and gives them bogus calls.

This is all known fact within the NFL.

will, aberrations and causality are hard to explain. the colts game was probably the most important game of the season, and we know the bad blood there. in a way, it was also the closest-to-losing until the NYG game. maybe the pats did commit more penalties that game. maybe the refs were giving the pats the benefit of the doubt in 'phins, bills, jets games, and thus the rest-of-league average is low. teams probably commit fewer penalties in blowouts, too. it's impossible to know unless every player on every play is reviewed from the whole season, and every move is graded for validity of call/noncall. needless to say, this is an impossible task.

Someone with more time than me should analyze all the teams that played the Colts this year and how their penalties in the game against the Colts stack up with their average number of penalties against all other teams that aren't the Colts. If every team that played the Colts had a spike in their penalty calls when playing the Colts, then that will really be something that the league can look into.

I'm assuming you mean 7th fewest? The number of penalties OUGHT to put an end to talk of the Pats being a dirty team. The refs would be seeing that dirty play at least some of the time, which should result in a higher number of penalties overall. Not happening.