NFL officiating (1 Viewer)

[bweiser]

The NFL needs to take a look at officiating and the challenge rules. When the referee makes a moronic ruling like they just made in the Jets-Giants game, there really should be no penalty against the team that has to challenge.

I'm seeing 3-4 calls like this every week, blatantly wrong calls that aren't even debatable. I mean, I get that they're human, but they're getting worse.

Perhaps changing the rule so that a team gets two incorrect challenges before they are out of challenges would help the game. In other words, a team can challenge as many times correctly in a game as it needs to, but once it is wrong twice, it is out of challenges.

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[treat88]

At an all time low this year.

The calls against JJ Watt Thurs. night were literally the worst I have ever seen.

NFL should be embarrassed of that crew.

 

[Tony Reali]

i think i say this cause im a referee, but it's very easy to sit and watch on TV with multiple slow motion close up replays and say how bad the officials are when they're yards away from the play

 

[bweiser]

i think i say this cause im a referee, but it's very easy to sit and watch on TV with multiple slow motion close up replays and say how bad the officials are when they're yards away from the play

i don't need to see multiple slow motion close up replays on most of the plays i am talking about ... it's crystal clear the first time you see it and yet the officials are missing the calls. obviously, there are a lot of close calls that need to be reviewed that the officials are bound to be getting wrong.

 

[Hipple Long Ware & Peete]

The NFL needs to take a look at officiating and the challenge rules. When the referee makes a moronic ruling like they just made in the Jets-Giants game, there really should be no penalty against the team that has to challenge. I'm seeing 3-4 calls like this every week, blatantly wrong calls that aren't even debatable. I mean, I get that they're human, but they're getting worse.Perhaps changing the rule so that a team gets two incorrect challenges before they are out of challenges would help the game. In other words, a team can challenge as many times correctly in a game as it needs to, but once it is wrong twice, it is out of challenges. end rant

what happened at the end of the game? I missed that in the chaos of the day.

 

[FavreCo]

Scenario: 3rd down and 20, you need this first down bad. Your QB is average (or worse - Alex Smith). What do you do? Anyone? Think about it.

It has to do with awful officiating and the Thursday night game.

 

[Hipple Long Ware & Peete]

Scenario: 3rd down and 20, you need this first down bad. Your QB is average (or worse - Alex Smith). What do you do? Anyone? Think about it. It has to do with awful officiating and the Thursday night game.

he said the NYG-NYJ's game.

 

[FavreCo]

Scenario: 3rd down and 20, you need this first down bad. Your QB is average (or worse - Alex Smith). What do you do? Anyone? Think about it. It has to do with awful officiating and the Thursday night game.

he said the NYG-NYJ's game.

I was just adding to the bad officiating all across the board. Anyway, here is what it has come to:The defender had a clean sack of the QB but because the QB ducked down, they threw a penalty when the defender hit the QB in the midsection and the helmets touched.If it's me and it's 3rd and long and a 1st looks hard to achieve (Alex Smith), I send in the backup QB and instruct him to hold the ball and wait for the hit. Duck and try and get the penalty when the defender comes for the sack. Easy penalty and 1st down.

 

[ConfusedRealist]

i think i say this cause im a referee, but it's very easy to sit and watch on TV with multiple slow motion close up replays and say how bad the officials are when they're yards away from the play

The first step is admitting you have a problem... If the NFL continues to hide behind the ambiguity of their rule book and continue trying to defend the absolutely atrocious calls(the Victor Cruz fumble against Arizona is a great example or the back and forth nature of the "Calvin Johnson" rule calls, see Hernandez's TD from this year for a "drop" that was credited as a catch) then we should expect the officials to continue to half ### their jobs and make terrible calls.

 

[Hipple Long Ware & Peete]

i think i say this cause im a referee, but it's very easy to sit and watch on TV with multiple slow motion close up replays and say how bad the officials are when they're yards away from the play

The first step is admitting you have a problem... If the NFL continues to hide behind the ambiguity of their rule book and continue trying to defend the absolutely atrocious calls(the Victor Cruz fumble against Arizona is a great example or the back and forth nature of the "Calvin Johnson" rule calls, see Hernandez's TD from this year for a "drop" that was credited as a catch) then we should expect the officials to continue to half ### their jobs and make terrible calls.

You ae nuts. The hernandez td wasn't really that close.Along the same line I thought the lions should have challenged megas 'drop' in the endzone early. Once you have possession in the end zone if a receiver knocks it away it's still a TD.

 

[DA RAIDERS]

Getting rid of the ancient geezers would be a start.

 

[Anthony Borbely]

In the plays where a player is running and the ball crosses the plane, then a player fumbles after....why doesn't he have to "complete the football move"...i.e. maintain possession of the ball?

 

[Donnybrook]

Exhibit A

 

[Hooper31]

Hyperbole warp drive: ENGAGED.

 

[GregR]

In the plays where a player is running and the ball crosses the plane, then a player fumbles after....why doesn't he have to "complete the football move"...i.e. maintain possession of the ball?

Because if you previously have possession according to the rules, the moment the ball crosses the goal line it is a touchdown and the play is over. So the fumble occurs after the play.Which differs from the case of, say, a receiver who crosses the goal line in the act of making a catch, in that the receiver may or may not have possession yet according to the rules. If for example he goes to the ground in the act of making the catch, he doesn't have possession until he has controlled the ball through the entire act of going to the ground. Or another example, if doesn't go to the ground, but he hasn't yet had time to make a football move while retaining control before fumbling, then he never had possession so never crossed the goal line with possession. (Noting that "possession" and "control" have two different meanings.)

 

[ConfusedRealist]

i think i say this cause im a referee, but it's very easy to sit and watch on TV with multiple slow motion close up replays and say how bad the officials are when they're yards away from the play

The first step is admitting you have a problem... If the NFL continues to hide behind the ambiguity of their rule book and continue trying to defend the absolutely atrocious calls(the Victor Cruz fumble against Arizona is a great example or the back and forth nature of the "Calvin Johnson" rule calls, see Hernandez's TD from this year for a "drop" that was credited as a catch) then we should expect the officials to continue to half ### their jobs and make terrible calls.

You ae nuts. The hernandez td wasn't really that close.Along the same line I thought the lions should have challenged megas 'drop' in the endzone early. Once you have possession in the end zone if a receiver knocks it away it's still a TD.

That's strange because sometimes, according to the NFL, it is not a TD. Like I said, the first step is admitting you have a problem with poor officiating. Instead, the NFL chooses to keep trying to defend the blown calls by hiding behind unclear rules. I didn't think the Megatron TD was that close either, I thought any rational human being could obviously see the guy let go of the football after clearly making and completing the catch. The NFL continues to try to defend that call and the Victor Cruz fumble call though rather than addressing the fact that their referees blew calls. You saw the results this season with some truly awful officiating all season. There is zero reason to expect the referees to suddenly start doing their jobs better when people keep making excuses for them or flat out refusing to acknowledge they are doing their jobs poorly.