Flex-Off Between Sedrick and Davon?

When Sedrick Ellis did this against Arizona State last week, it was a 15-yard penalty (photo actually from a game last season -- he does it a lot).

When Davon Jefferson did this against Southern Illinois three nights later, it was just a cool photo-op.

Actually, the penalty against Ellis was pretty ridiculous and Pete Carroll made it clear yesterday that he wasn't happy about it:

"I challenged the officials about the call because I thought it was out of line and it was too quick and without warning ... I was told that it was in the rules and written that way. So I went right to the source ... and it wasn't written that way, so they were misunderstood a little bit about that. It doesn't say you can't flex your muscles."

He later added, "That was an extremely significant play in the game. Look what happened after that. They went bang, bang, bang, we get 15 yards on a face mask and they are in the end zone ... that's a huge, huge decision to be made right there."

Carroll spoke to the league about the situation and got an explanation. He was "satisfied with what they said -- almost."

Photo by Wally Skalij / LA Times

Comments

[Bobak]

Craig James, Doug Flutie and Chris Fowler were also on the same page with Carroll. i.e. "WTF, SRSLY?"

[Gerrrg]

They say Justice is blind and unfortunately for the Pac-10, the zebras seem to be blind as well.

They're not perfect, but then why bother having a stupid replay device if you don't use it when you really should, and screw up when you do use it? I refer of course, to last year's OU-UO onside kick. I also would like to point out that the ASU player was all over Turner in the end zone, and was not called.

[PK-IN-THE-MESA]

Trojans are looking allright on both fronts lets keep the positive vibes going. Sed and Devo are the bomb