I pity them, and yet...

The New Orleans/San Antonio/Baton Rouge Saints are in a terrible situation. But I'm pretty sure Jim Haslett would have said this no matter what after Sunday's loss to the Falcons:

The play at the end, the call by the officials ... It's flat-out chickenshit, all right? It's a flat-out chickenshit call by that crew, by 95, especially, James whatever his last name is. It's a bad call because we took exactly the same play that Atlanta ran trying to block the winning field goal against New England last week and we ran that against them. They didn't call it last week, so I'm telling you it's a flat-out chickenshit call. It was the same exact play that Atlanta ran against New England to block their winning field goal. We are pulling the guy to the outside. You're allowed to pull as long as you're going forward. We pulled to get Jason Craft through. We took the play from Atlanta. Atlanta ran it last week against New England and [the officials] didn't call it last week. And again, I'll say it's a chickenshit call.

The beauty of Where's McCarver is restoring the profanities in tirades like this.

UPDATE: Here's one of the referees on the play:

"No. 92 on defense grabbed his opponent and pulled him to the inside, allowing his teammate to shoot through and into the hole."

NFL people really need some new terminology...