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Message: <blockquote data-quote="FanOfTheGame" data-source="post: 267155" data-attributes="member: 1798"><p>The refs are not to blame for this loss.  Sure there were some bad calls or some non-calls, but it definitely wasn't one sided.  How about that horse collar penalty against Arizona?  It wasn't a horse collar.  As for the "facemask"... well it did not occur until after the ball was knocked out of Rodgers' hands.  Adams' hand knocked the ball out of Rodgers' hand and as his hand kept moving forward it got the facemask.  I believe that had it been called the ball still would have belonged to Arizona and the penalty would have been assessed at that point giving Arizona a 1st and 10.  Doesn't really matter, the facemask did not cause the fumble.  That's not on the refs, unfortunately it's on Rodgers.  And if the facemask had been called the refs would have had to penalize Rodgers for intentionally kicking the ball after it left his hand.  If you watch the replay you can see that Rodgers was trying to kick the ball away from the defender.</p></blockquote><p></p>

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