
But if your argument is that GB played a clean game and shouldn't have been flagged as much as they were, I'm not sure I can agree with that. A lot seems to have been made about that one drive where they got flagged on three straight 3rd downs (or whatever it was). But in the moment I didn't really think that any of those were egregiously bad/phantom calls. I remember particularly the hold on Bullard, and going "Yeah, he did - grabbed on and never did let go". And had a similar reaction to all the others on that drive.
A lot of people complaining about the McClellan hit, but per the rules, that's exactly how they're supposed to call that (at least to my understanding of the rules) - he landed right on top of the QB with his full body weight. Now, if you say "then what's he supposed to do", then I would tend to agree - but that's a "the rule is bad" issue, not a "they called it wrong" issue.
Again: I don't think there's a lot of room to complain about the 13 flags GB got in and of themselves - I think the vast majority were well earned. But if your argument is that MN got away with a lot of things that GB got called for, that I would agree with 100%...
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