Actually Patriots had 10 penalties for 83 yards while the Ravens had 14 penalties for 135 yards.

The big penalty should be heading Belichick's way this week for grabbing the official. No excuse for that.

Agreed about the Belichick penalty. Ravens should have had more penalties :p

Spoken like a true Patriot fan. :icon17:

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Either way it's not like the Patriots played poorly and have anything to worry about. We kicked azz and just came up a little bit short. Like the Giants proved last season, you only have to do good towards the end of the season to get to the playoffs and win the Super Bowl. Both of our teams should be much better by that time with Hernandez and Suggs playing again.

lol this is not the league of old lol where if Tom Brady stomped his feet, he got the flag, no. the times have changed. and i must say despite the rediculous amount of penalties..... it was a TRUELY epic.game. that even ended with a Coach grabbing the offical! lol

reports are that Mr Bill is facing a pretty big fine. and a potential suspension. BUT its all rumors till it actually comes out.

Fine I'd expect but I don't think he will be suspended.

I wouldn't be surprised if they suspended him to send a message. They know we'll have the replacement refs for a while and they don't want coaches to be manhandling them.

I agree with Steve. The NFL came out last week very strongly and told the coaches to back off. Even during normal times, touching the ref is taboo, but after the warning last week, I would be surprised if he didn't receive a one game suspension.

Early reports on NFL.com say that he will not be getting suspended, just fined.

im thinking a potential suspension to send a message. although for how long? not sure.

heck the game even had a streaker on the field! lol this game had it all! lol even tho these teams are not in the same division, these types of games are quickly becoming rivalry status. lol.:tiphat:

He shouldn't be suspended, a fine is in order but not a suspension. Under normal circumstances yes, he can sit for a few games but given that these refs have crossed over from being comically bad to dangerous (Darius hayward bay) I think the NFL would be in the wrong to hand down a suspension.

I find letting 3rd string refs handle these games and getting people hurt to be much more offensive to the game of football than a coach putting his hand of a ref.

For the record, i'm a Bengals fan. I hate the Ravens and the Patriots equally. If both teams could have lost that game I would have been happy.

:iagree: and I'm a Ravens fan. I don't think Belichik should be suspended. He did what I was thinking.

Just heard the same thing, about 50k in fines but no suspension.

All good points.

The NFL should use all these fines to pay the real refs.