The Replacement Referees (1 Viewer)

[duaneok66]

People complained just as much when the "real refs" were on the field. I see no difference.

 

[griff321]

People complained just as much when the "real refs" were on the field. I see no difference.

Really!? You couldn't be bothered to go to the second page to find a 3 page thread on the refs, or are you just that narcissistic that you had to start a new thread with that amazing sentence of enlightenment for the rest of the peons?

http://forums.footballguys.com/forum/index.php?showtopic=655251&st=0

 

[duaneok66]

I actually didn't see it. My bad.

 

[duaneok66]

Actually,I thought you were referring to a different thread. My point was different and not meant to be prideful.

My apologies.

 

[solorca]

The Seattle/Arizona game was stopped for about 10 minutes with 30 seconds left on the game clock, on 4th down (I believe), with the game winning/losing play getting ready to happen.

That's an example of why there is an uproar.

They've been lucky so far this week, but a replacement ref is going to cause someone a win soon. Hopefully it's an NFC East team, because then it will ensure that the NFL does what it takes to get the real refs back.

 

[DesmondBishop]

People complained just as much when the "real refs" were on the field. I see no difference.

Really!? You couldn't be bothered to go to the second page to find a 3 page thread on the refs, or are you just that narcissistic that you had to start a new thread with that amazing sentence of enlightenment for the rest of the peons?

http://forums.footballguys.com/forum/index.php?showtopic=655251&st=0

That was uncalled for, as far as I can tell this is an open forum and anyone can start a thread at anytime at no cost or harm to ANYONE. I would rather skip over a thread I don't care to read, then read junk from some sarcastic twit like yourself. And now for something completely different, just heard the replacement officials have been signed or whatever through week 5. yipppeeeee!

 

[death of the cool]

They've been lucky so far this week, but a replacement ref is going to cause someone a win soon. Hopefully it's an NFC East team, because then it will ensure that the NFL does what it takes to get the real refs back.

kind of like how the regular NFL refs miss something or mess a call up that leads to someone getting beat? It seems to happen at least a few times a year.Frankly, I don't see a huge difference in the replacement refs and the actual refs...and I think the NFL refs were hoping for a huge blow up this week...and it just didn't happen. I think we will see the NFL refs concede in the next few weeks.

 

[solorca]

They've been lucky so far this week, but a replacement ref is going to cause someone a win soon. Hopefully it's an NFC East team, because then it will ensure that the NFL does what it takes to get the real refs back.

kind of like how the regular NFL refs miss something or mess a call up that leads to someone getting beat? It seems to happen at least a few times a year.

Nope, not like that at all. The regular refs miss calls all the time and there is an outlash when they do so. I'm talking about something happening where they completely miss a major rule (or get it entirely wrong) and it causes someone the game. With a group of trained NFL refs, they get together and will figure it out if it's something that is a basic rule of the game. With the replacement refs, it's very likely that the entire combined group will not be trained well enough to get it right.I'm sure these guys would be fine refs if they had years of experience calling the NFL game (or even the college game, trying to work to the NFL in the future), but we're talking about high school and lingerie football quality refs.Plus, just by the nature of the situation, if they blow a major call, the outlash will be massive. Hopefully the outlash will be against the NFL and the holdout refs. They are equally at fault from what I've seen.

 

[jon_mx]

I thought the replacements did a fine job, at least at the Lions-Rams game. That was about the least I ever recall the refs interfering with the play of the game. They called the obvious calls and did not call any nansy pansy nit calls.

 

[Chaka]

The Seattle/Arizona game was stopped for about 10 minutes with 30 seconds left on the game clock, on 4th down (I believe), with the game winning/losing play getting ready to happen.That's an example of why there is an uproar. They've been lucky so far this week, but a replacement ref is going to cause someone a win soon. Hopefully it's an NFC East team, because then it will ensure that the NFL does what it takes to get the real refs back.

Ed Hercules blew a major call in the SD/Den game. Triplett (I think) blew a coin toss for OT possession. Vinny T was given a TD when clearly only his helmet crossed the plane. Etc. Bad calls happen.I agree that the league is playing with fire with the scrubs but they will get better, the calls will hopefully even out and there have been a lot of egregious calls made by the regulars. So far, no big deal.

 

[Novice2]

People complained just as much when the "real refs" were on the field. I see no difference.

Really!? You couldn't be bothered to go to the second page to find a 3 page thread on the refs, or are you just that narcissistic that you had to start a new thread with that amazing sentence of enlightenment for the rest of the peons?

http://forums.footballguys.com/forum/index.php?showtopic=655251&st=0

I like this thread better.

 

[shredhead]

People complained just as much when the "real refs" were on the field. I see no difference.

Really!? You couldn't be bothered to go to the second page to find a 3 page thread on the refs, or are you just that narcissistic that you had to start a new thread with that amazing sentence of enlightenment for the rest of the peons?

http://forums.footballguys.com/forum/index.php?showtopic=655251&st=0

That was uncalled for, as far as I can tell this is an open forum and anyone can start a thread at anytime at no cost or harm to ANYONE. I would rather skip over a thread I don't care to read, then read junk from some sarcastic twit like yourself.