After the New England Patriots defeated the previously undefeated Baltimore Ravens 27-21 at Gillette Stadium on Sunday afternoon, future hall of famers Ray Lewis and Ed Reed blamed the loss entirely on the poor officiating by the referees.

“Without totally going off the wall here, it is embarrassing to the game,” linebacker Ray Lewis said while crying like a little bitch. “[Tom] Brady is good enough to make his own plays, let him make the play. When you have two great teams that are going at it, let them go at it. Both of their touchdown drives had personal fouls that kept drives alive. Did that win or lose the game? No, but it got them 14 points.”

Safety Ed Reed also commented on the officiating.

“Terrible,” Reed bitched to reporters. “Nothing to take away from anybody else’s job, but at some point, we have to be better about that. This game has evolved too much not to precise when there is a spot, when there is a penalty, when anything is going on on this field. We’re too smart as human beings.

“The history of the game — from where it’s been to where it’s come to — to not be precise … This is a game of inches. This has been a game of inches for years. Now you’re putting one person in charge, or two people in charge [of spotting the ball], and they’re making things bad. I swear it felt like 2007 almost, when we played the Patriots at home. They don’t need no help. They’re a great team. They don’t need any help from anybody. We don’t need any help from anybody. We definitely don’t need anyone taking it away from us.”

These two guys need to hold each other, drink some beer and drown their sorrows. The officiating wasn’t the best, but it wasn’t the worst either. Furthermore, the bullshit calls were equally distributed amongst both teams, so the Ravens have nothing to cry about. The Ravens didn’t lose because of the refs. They lost because Mark Clayton dropped a touchdown pass with just seconds remaining at the end of the game.