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WASHINGTON -- Washington Redskins coach Jay Gruden echoed Josh Normans complaints about penalty calls in the teams 27-all tie against the Cincinnati Bengals, saying Monday that the star cornerback probably is targeted a little bit by officials.Gruden said on a conference call with reporters that he disagreed with some of the flags thrown during Sundays game in London, which left Washington at 4-3-1 and last in the NFC East heading into its bye week.The Redskins totaled 15 penalties -- eight more than the Bengals -- and Gruden said: I think we gave them eight first downs via penalty. After watching the film ... some of them were not very blatant, thats for sure.Norman lashed out at field judge Brad Freeman after the game, saying, Im just going to be honest with you; Im going to be straightforward: He was terrible. I feel like he should be reprimanded.Norman drew five flags, including four for illegal use of hands, while covering Bengals wideout A.J. Green.Some of the glancing hits to the facemask on A.J. Green, I just dont understand them. There was no intent there to injure, Gruden said. It was absolutely just a glancing blow that had nothing to do with anything.Gruden also specifically questioned an offensive pass interference call against Redskins wideout Pierre Garcon in OT that wiped out a completion, and an earlier defensive holding call against substitute cornerback Quinton Dunbar.On the Garcon penalty, Gruden said: Thats not offensive PI in any realm whatsoever of the penalty that I know (as) offensive pass interference. Theres nothing Pierre did wrong. ... Some of the penalties we can clean up; some of them we cant do anything about.And heres what he said about the Dunbar call in the end zone: I dont know what to teach them. He was jamming his guy and then Andy (Dalton) threw it over the guys head and threw it out of bounds, but they called holding.As for whether Norman needs to worry about being the focus of officials, Gruden replied: Well, he cant be any more targeted than he was yesterday, thats for sure. ... He had quite a few on him that ... could have gone either way, quite frankly.Gruden continued: As far as him being targeted, he probably is a little bit, but hes going to have to deal with it.Game notes S Will Blackmon needs thumb surgery, but they can cast it up and hopefully hell play, Gruden said. On other injuries: TE Niles Paul was going to have an MRI to see the extent of his strained shoulder; WR DeSean Jackson did not get a concussion from a hit to the helmet, but his whole body was banged up, so he didnt go back in, Gruden said; RT Morgan Moses sprained his ankle. ... 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While there are new wrinkles every year -- Ryan Seacrest hosts a new late-night show, Mike Tirico joins from ESPN -- the NBC playbook and personnel remain very consistent. NBCs 170-member broadcast team includes a stable of former athletes, including swimmer Rowdy Gaines, gymnast Tim Daggett and diver Laura Wilkinson, that has combined for 59 Olympic medals.NBC executives strongly believe in how they cover the Olympics, particularly the menu of sports offered on the network each night, and consider the events ratings strength is a public endorsement. The company paid $1.2 billion for the broadcast rights.The opening ceremony will be delayed an hour before being shown on NBC because the network wants the entertainment spectacle, which was seen by 40.7 million people in 2012, to be shown completely in U.S. prime time. NBC was also reportedly upset that because the Portugese language is being used for the parade of nations, the U.S. team (or Estados Unidos) will file into the stadium relatively early.In what is becoming an Olympics tradition, the run-up to the games was filled with foreboding stories: the Zika virus, polluted water, security concerns. HBOs Real Sports aired a thorough investigation last month into the International Olympic Committee and demands placed on host countries, but dont expect something similar on NBC.The network plans to address many of the issues unique to Rio early, perhaps in a one-hour preview scheduled for Thursday night, but will turn to the competition unless something unusual happens.I think when people are tuning in to watch the Olympics, theyll want to watch the Olympics, said Jim Bell, executive producer of NBCs Olympicss coverage.dddddddddddd.Unlike previous Summer Games in Europe, Asia and Australia, the Rio games provide NBC a favorable time zone allowing it to televise many events live in swimming and track and field. With only a few exceptions, those sports -- along with gymnastics and volleyball -- get virtually all of the attention on NBCs prime-time broadcast.The rest of the sports are spread across 10 other networks, many with particular specialties.The Golf Channel, for example, concentrates on the Olympic return of its namesake sport. NBC executives expressed disappointment that several of the worlds top golfers, including Jason Day, Dustin Johnson, Jordan Spieth and Rory McIlroy, are staying away from the event because of concerns about the Zika virus, and suggested theyd someday regret it.Bravo will be the Olympic home of tennis. NBC is also setting up speciality channels for both basketball and soccer, although those sports will also be shown on other networks.The NBC Sports cable network will be the busiest, airing 330 hours of Olympics programming covering 20 sports. On most days of the games, NBCSN will air Olympics coverage from 8 a.m. to midnight. Other coverage will be spread around CNBC, MSNBC and USA. Telemundo and NBC Universo will narrate events in Spanish, focusing on sports and athletes popular in Latin America.NBC, which likes to use the Olympics as a laboratory for new technology and ideas, will also distribute 83 hours of coverage in the 4K Ultra HD format.Once again, the NBC Olympics website offers live streams of every competition. To access this material, a customer must validate an account with a cable or satellite provider.The attention speaks to the huge economic opportunity the games provide NBC in a fragmented media world. NBC is betting, and in fact has advertised the Olympics, on the idea that viewers can use a pick-me-up from a drumbeat of bad news.Theres been a lot of tough things going on in the world, Bell said. I think it will be nice, fingers crossed, if we can have a couple of weeks to give people something to cheer about.---Follow David Bauder at twitter.com/dbauder. 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