NFL Officials

[tomwvr]

How does the NFL fix the very poor officiating this season, this year there were so many missed, blown or just awful calls.
How would you all fix this - my thoughts are

1) make them full time NFL employees with yearly reviews.
2) Rate therm for missed calls, wrong calls, one way calls, good calls and and good no calls after each game - poorest rated officials at the end of the season should be let go.
3) Give them a decent pay rate and then allow them to get bonuses for good work and have fines for poor jobs

 

[DWinzit]

They should tar and feather them for flagrant poor calls!

J/K...They need force review for certain type of calls that have a large impact like personal fouls and ass interference. Similar to what they d on turnovers or inside the two minute warning.

They are also going to need to dive into certain officials calls to see if there is a misinterpretation of expectations on certain calls or questions of favoritism of calls.

 

[burgold]

I think all of that is good. I also think you need every play reviewable, chips in footballs, and either more challenges or more upstairs overrules. We also need for there to be the ability to during a challenge fix a wrong. How many times during a turnover review a clear uncalled facemask is spotted and can't be addressed? If a clear penalty is visible then it should be addressable. Likewise, if the ref gets it wrong like on all those holding calls where the O lineman just shoves the defender to the ground, but there was never any holding that needs to reviewable and corrected. Players shouldn't be penalized because a ref had a bad angle and couldn't see the facemask or a clear and ultra obvious PI is ignored because Hocculi is corrupt, on the Eagles' payroll, and places bets on the games.

 

[burgold]

College football has done a pretty good job of keeping the game moving while using video to review everything. You don't want endless pauses and delays, but you also don't want the kind of ridiculous bad calls and obvious bias we see game in and game out.

 

[skinzplay]

Repercussions - there need to be serious penalties for botching calls. And instead of handling it as a wholly internal matter, the names of the officials and the designated sanctions should be released each week by the league. The quality of officiating has steadily deteriorated, and it has done so to an unacceptable level. What we have now are a lot of officials who believe fans tune in to see them (not the linesmen, umpires, etc., but the arrogant crew leaders like Biceps' son). I miss the good ones!!

 

[SkinsFTW]

Year after year the refs do the same things and over the past few seasons it has kept getting worse. The NFL makes more and more ambiguous rules, very selectively changes calls from NY while missing dozens of no brainer calls. Etc.

Let's just admit that the refs are more than likely doing exactly what the NFL, and Vegas with all that money on the line, wants them to do.

When there are no changes made, tell me that I'm wrong while wearing earplugs and a blindfold.

 

[skinzplay]

The good officials - the ones likely to have been supervisors and trainers - have retired or left because of things that were going on with officiating at Park Avenue. One of those things was Al Riveron taking a senior leadership/oversight role in the league office. He wasn't even a top 10 crew chief, let alone suitable for that role. Anyway, the precipitous decline in officiating (the systemic stink we now see) started under his watch. He's gone, but the damage lingers.

 

[Kel Varnsen]

Yeah, Al Riveron was one of the worst officials I can remember. When he got promoted, it seemed clear he was promoted to get him off the field. I don’t know the repercussions and if what you say is true skinzplay, but his promotion was a joke when it should have been a demotion.

 

[skinzplay]

Without a doubt, Kel Varnsen . He was easily one of the worst of all time. I feel sorry for the ACC. He's now their coordinator of football officials.

 

[Chris]

 

[SkinsFTW]

Nobody is saying that they're assisting one team, but they change the direction of almost every game.

Let's not pretend that Vegas doesn't have a stake here.

 

[SkinsNumberOne]

Nobody is saying that they're assisting one team, but they change the direction of almost every game.

Let's not pretend that Vegas doesn't have a stake here.

He is responding to the widespread complaints about the Chiefs, I think. There are a lot of people pretty much saying all of the NFL's referees favor the Chiefs.