Clay basically placed him gently on the ground like a little baby.

Cousins was not even looking for a flag and the ref threw the flag after the play if it was blatant he would have thrown the flag right away. Vegas wins again .

Watch the replay the ref does not even move his hand to the flag , a little voice in his ear piece finally told him to .

Clay has good reason. Seems like the whole of the NFL community other than the official who made the call agrees with him.

The aforementioned “vexed” piqued my interest, so I peeked at the article. Good job!

Flat out bullshit call!!!

Nobody is going to want to play defense anymore. Put flags on the QB's, then we'll see roughing the flag penalties.

These rules are getting ridiculous. I don’t care which team you cheer for. If it happened against Rodgers I’d say the same! This is the NFL. It’s very physical to say the least. They might as well just say you can’t touch the QB.

Clearly the on field judges are not capable of determining these personal fouls at game speed. IMO, they have to be reviewable. It's just so stupid that the hardest calls to make, Holding, Personal Fouls and Pass Interference are not reviewable

This might have something to do with last week. If you’re Zimmer, you’re telling the officials before the game, “did you see what Matthews did to Trubisky last week? He’s going to try to take out Cousins. Got to keep an eye on Matthews!”

My wife brought it to my attention mid way through the second Quarter that gambling on NFL games was now legal as I had paid it no mind. In the third quarter she astutely noted that the Queens were favored in this game and a Packer win would be a loss for Vegas odds makers, but a Vike win would be a win for Vegas and a Tie would be the best case for Vegas as they take all bets in that scenario. Two ties in 2 weeks for the NFL, wonder how many more tie games this year where Vegas takes all? I bet there will be more tie games with a few during some primetime games.

Watching SNF Cowpokes up 13-3. Cowpokes got a first down then back to back holding calls, ended up 3rd and 20. hmmmmm.

These referees are garbage--they stole the game from us. Don't you love how they defend their calls after the game, even when they know they're wrong? Despite our defense reverting to a sieve in the second half, the team played well enough to win this time. Nothing but sour grapes here, even though there were some bright spots. Loved that blocked punt.

It doesn't look like this defense is going to change from a frog to a prince anytime soon. It only took one injury in the secondary to give up a bomb. And to state the obvious, we need players who can disrupt the QB consistently. Impact players don't grow on trees, but the Packers need to find some if they want to beat the good teams--like the one they just played. Sometimes the officials have to be overcome, with this being an extreme example.

This link is a perfect view of the hit. Corrente or whatever his name is, is a lying sack of trash when he say's Clay picked up Cousins and slammed him in the turf. Clays feet never stopped moving as to pick up Cousins and drive him in the dirt. It would be damn near impossible to pick up a 220 lb man while bending over to make a tackle and drive him in the dirt without stopping your feet or carrying him several yards past where you first hit him. None of that happened and Corrente [the ref] was staring right at it and still lied through his teeth. Clay hit him at the 15 1/2 yard line and dropped him one yard back. Running full speed and lifting a guy off the ground as you hit him would surely cause the QB to land 3-4 yards from where he was hit. It was total fabricated b.s. by Corrente.

Right or wrong, Clay needs to take a leaf out of Mack and Miller's book and play for the ball not the man.

I commented this after last week and while I'm not saying whether I agree or not, but the NFL is clearly against smashing the QB and the ramifications of running that risk are very, very apparent!

Question: I wonder, if Clay had played more for the ball than upending the man (and had "incidental" contact of the QB) would he have still been called?

Rodgers took three or four more vicious hits than the stupid call on Mathews including a full fledged fist to the face on the first sack and a facemask on a later sack, but nothing was called.

There was a poor roughing called earlier on Minny, but they already had a five yard penalty against them on the same play so it had no impact on the game. Short field goal either way.

And while where at it why wasn't that d-back tossed out of the game for leading with his helmet and hitting Devante in the head. Bad officiating today on both sides of the ball. Weez wuz robbed.

Both roughing flags were equally wrong. The issue is which hurt more and I don't mean the QB's.
Rodgers sack in the 2nd quarter didn't have the same effect as to the outcome.This is understandable from a fans point of view but Refs aren't flagging based upon possible outcome but when obviously equally at occurrence.. They did this fairly to both and it happens that Matthews did his at the wrong time. Both were and still are bad calls and that's is that.....Tissue anyone.

One might actually think that a non-hobbled Rodgers could have offered different play calling. The kind that gets him hurt vs Minn etc and a loss instead of a tie.

Despite the shitty calls, the Pack is in 1st place.

People are only focusing on the one bad call. I watched CM3 closely all game and Pettine is using him the same way Capers did in 2017. CM3 needs to be moved inside for a straight line shot on the QB. He's taking a roundabout way to get to the QB that's causing these late hits.

Once again he was a step MN or 2 away from Cousins when if he started closer he might have gotten there. Once again he was on the turf a few times during the game. It wasn't just 1 play that was frustrating about CM3's performance. Pick up another rusher in FA or finally give Gilbert a real shot. We've seen what we have in CM3 and so far it's not pretty.

A younger Mathews would have been there before the ball was released.

This is the new what is a catch rule. Even Zimmerman said he doesn't know what defenders are supposed to do. Daniels said he thought the QB got rid of the ball and didn't want to fall or get knocked into him and get a penalty. Almost every so called expert has said it was BS.

I'm still F***ing pissed about this!

Its going to take a while to get over this one.

NFL better change its rules so that it oversees refs from making game changing decisions on the field.

Its not just the Mathews hit either although that was by far the biggest one.

The OPI on Adams was absolutely terrible. The called back TD on the Taylor pancake block is another one. And yes the roughing the QB on Kendricks was also bad. Regardless of that penalty it gave the Packers a first and 10 rather then first and 5, as there was an offsides penalty on that play.

NFL needs to be ashamed of themselves for allowing complete bullshit calls change outcomes of games.

Even Cousins said it was a generous call , that says it all right there.

The NFL has created a situation where there is no turning back from. With the new rules and "emphasis" on QB safety it is virtually impossible to make a play on the QB. Hit too low...penalty. Hit too high... penalty. Hit just after he releases the ball...penalty. They forget the game is played at full speed. Not at replay speed. I find it laughable people trying to determine if he "left his feet" or "picked him up" or "came down with full body weight" He did none of these things. Yet here we are with every Zabruder film conspiracy theorist trying to figure out what we just saw. A simple, clean hit to a QB in a physical game played by strong physical players. Of course, the cursory NFL denial of reality is coming from some nerd in the NFL office telling us what we saw is not what we think we saw. Sad. Let's play two hand touch.

I've made the comment before about how quickly the refs are calling roughing the passer penalties this season. Taking away the competitive edge of a great play such as the hit Matthews put on Cousins, takes away credibility from the game of football. There needs to be reviews on these kinds of calls, especially when there is a change of possession, or a touchdown is called back because of a penalty. I've seen roughing the passer called in other games that was totally bogus. When one ref can determine the outcome of a game with a lame call then there should be ways to prevent such enormity in the sport.

Ray Nitschke is spinning in his grave watching this "mamba-pamby" NFL football. Pro-wrestling here we come. Thanks, Since '61

Based on the errors made by the referees - the missed PI on Graham followed by the OPI on Adams, the phantom holding call, the roughing - the game was simply too fast for them. It reminded me of the replacement refs, in how overmatched they were. It underscores the need for clearly defined rules - the new protections were designed to prevent an egregious case of driving the QB into the ground, but are applied to cases where the tackler simply lands on the QB. If the refs are having trouble keeping up with the speed of play, the application of that rule becomes arbitrary. It will be interesting to see if the refs show more restraint going forward - it will tell us that the NFL rule people realize that they created a problem.

I still don't know what a catch is. Seeing Davante Adams catch the ball, lay down in the end zone with the ball in his hands, then seeing it ripped out and called incomplete left me going REALLY?! Having them uphold the call was even worse.

Sadly this will continue because the NFL wants and needs QB's to stay on the field. And more so when you have hits that still happen like the hit on Luck last week and Cam N this week. What's interesting CM didn't get fined last week and he won't get fined this week.