They went on to score six plays later and finished the game outscoring Washington, 30-2.
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Jason Hatcher’s claims that refs are unfairly targeting the Redskins based on their name continued onto Twitter. Washington defensive end Jason Hatcher vented some to media following a 44-16 drubbing from the Carolina Panthers and his primary concern seemed to be the officiating. Five plays after the penalty, Carolina scored a touchdown. Blah blah blah. We put in work too just like everyone else. We players and we work our butt off too.
“Don’t single us out”, Hatcher said. “At the end of the day, it’s the name”, Hatcher said. Just be quiet don’t say nothing.
“We should not have to be punished for that. It’s just not right”.
Hatcher had some more thoughts on the matter even after speaking to reporters, and he shared them on Instagram in a post that included: “We done being slaves to this league”. We got a team, too. We’re players and we work our butt off too. I do not give a crap about the name.
Hatcher said that this kind of thing happens every game. We’re players. We got a team, too. That play was wiped out because of a penalty for hitting a defenseless receiver near his head, a ruling that dominated much of the postgame discussion. But I’m not a referee, and I don’t get paid to do that, so it’s not my decision.
Refs get a lot of hate.
That frustration carried into the locker room.
Redskins defensive tackle Chris Baker criticized officials earlier in the year when he was penalized twice for personal fouls against the Philadelphia Eagles.
“I’m not sure man. We’ve just got to check ourselves”, he said, according to The Post. The play featured above may have been called correctly by the letter of the law (as outlined here), but the spirit of the law was not upheld. “This is the new soft National Football League”.
All teams get miffed at calls, of course, and plenty of outside analysts disagreed with the call against Culliver.
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I’d be more inclined to believe someone like Greg Hardy or Michael Vick if they said that their past influenced a ref’s bias against them but saying the “Redskins” name is costing you calls? In a series of minor moves Monday, the Redskins signed TE Je’Ron Hamm from the practice squad to the active roster, waived TE Anthony McCoy, signed LBs Derrick Mathews and Lynden Trail to the practice squad, and released CB Deveron Carr from the practice squad.
