How was the Helmet swing not a Penalty?

[Einstein's Dog]

The lack of a penalty on the Helmet swing baffles me.  They replayed it and it seemed to me the announcers were covering it like they assumed that was going to be called.  Then things got murky, I guess the call was offsetting penalties, and the announcers dropped it quickly.

 

But when I saw that replay it looked like the little guy was deliberately swinging his helmet and it grazed someone.

 

We already had the Giants nonsense where they had what looked like 3 different guys doing personal fouls to our one and saying they offset, now this?

 

Does anyone have an explanation on what happened there?

[Buffalo716]

He also literally almost hit the official

 

I couldn't believe it was a no call... 

Edited October 27, 2023 by Buffalo716

[SoCal Deek]

He should’ve been immediately ejected, but Goodells NFL it’s a free for all. 

[Einstein's Dog]

3 minutes ago, Buffalo716 said:

He also literally almost hit the official

 

I couldn't believe it was a no call... 

I wonder if he will get fined.  He should.

 

As for the official ruling, I guess they must have swept it under "offsetting".  But it is a whole different level of offense to me.

[Big Turk]

He likely will get a fine and/or suspension for it.

Edited October 27, 2023 by Big Turk

[Warriorspikes51]

The broadcast pretended it never happened. A flag was thrown and player was going to be ejected….then nothing.  It may have resulted in better field position for us to start next drive and Allen not having a ball tipped for the int

[Einstein's Dog]

1 minute ago, SoCal Deek said:

He should’ve been immediately ejected, but Goodells NFL it’s a free for all. 

I agree, I thought he would get kicked out.  Didn't something happen like this with Cleveland.

[Don Otreply]

4 minutes ago, Einstein's Dog said:

The lack of a penalty on the Helmet swing baffles me.  They replayed it and it seemed to me the announcers were covering it like they assumed that was going to be called.  Then things got murky, I guess the call was offsetting penalties, and the announcers dropped it quickly.

 

But when I saw that replay it looked like the little guy was deliberately swinging his helmet and it grazed someone.

 

We already had the Giants nonsense where they had what looked like 3 different guys doing personal fouls to our one and saying they offset, now this?

 

Does anyone have an explanation on what happened there?

It’s the smoking man, he throttles the Bills potential at every opportunity…

[frostbitmic]

He'll get a hefty fine this week but you'd think swinging a helmet would be at minimum a penalty and should've been an ejection.

[SoCal Deek]

Just now, Einstein's Dog said:

I agree, I thought he would get kicked out.  Didn't something happen like this with Cleveland.

It might have happened anywhere. That’s the problem. The NFL has become an officiating laughing stock where everything is now open for interpretation by the referees. It long ago ruined the NBA and under Goodell is doing the same for the NFL. 

[Einstein's Dog]

1 minute ago, frostbitmic said:

He'll get a hefty fine this week but you'd think swinging a helmet would be at minimum a penalty and should've been an ejection.

Also the little guy wasn't even part of the original scrum -which was according to the announcers something T Settle was involved with.  But I couldn't see anything out of the ordinary from Setttle, but did see the Tampa guy have a personal foul type reaction.  They didn't even cover that well.

[gordong]

he not only swung it,  he hit groot in the head for the life of me I dont know how that is not an ejection if he meant to do it or not makes no difference. 

Edited October 27, 2023 by gordong

[Warriorspikes51]

Refs….” Oh nevermind it’s just the punter”

[frostbitmic]

After the whistle the Tampa  O-lineman pancaked Settle and was taking his time getting off of him. Settle decided to help him get up which upset the lineman resulting in pushing and shoving. No need for a flag on both sides there even though the Tampa player started the issue. #5 on the other hand took off his helmet and swung it at a Bills player, that should be an instant ejection.

[Einstein's Dog]

9 minutes ago, Warriorspikes51 said:

The broadcast pretended it never happened. A flag was thrown and player was going to be ejected….then nothing.  It may have resulted in better field position for us to start next drive and Allen not having a ball tipped for the int

Certainly seemed like the Broadcast just covered up for the inept non-officiating there. 

 

They weren't even able to highlight the original supposed offset - they didn't show what Settle did to get the violent reaction from the center.

 

Even with Settle/center offsetting, swinging a helmet is a different level of Personal Foul.

[RJ (not THAT RJ)]

2 minutes ago, Einstein's Dog said:

Certainly seemed like the Broadcast just covered up for the inept non-officiating there. 

 

They weren't even able to highlight the original supposed offset - they didn't show what Settle did to get the violent reaction from the center.

 

Even with Settle/center offsetting, swinging a helmet is a different level of Personal Foul.

 

The broadcast was especially terrible on explaining things like that. Even more than broadcasts these days have been terrible when it comes to discussing penalties. Al Michaels showed no interest in explaining or discussing much of anything.

[Warcodered]

Maybe after the broadcast openly called out the ***** officiating of the Chiefs O-line they got a memo about talking about bad officiating?

[DallasBillsFan1]

From a reverse angle you can see it was a Bills player that lifted the helmet off the TB player.  The punter raised his hands to the ref signaling he wasn't doing it.  That's why.

Edited October 27, 2023 by DallasBillsFan1

[WhitewalkerInPhilly]

Refs needed a backdoor cover for the oddsmakers

[dave mcbride]

Why are people complaining about this?