I Can't Handle The Officiating Any More

[poprocksncoke]

Heel hovering but not touching.

Possibly, but would it be enough to overturn the call?

 

[Judge Fudge]

I agree the refs are getting a little full of themselves. Since when is this wrong?


Earl just showing the ref some love

 

[PDay8810]

Possibly, but would it be enough to overturn the call?

call on the field requires clear and concise evidence to over turn unless you're Dez Bryant in a playoff game.
Just mighta been a week old make up call for the detriot game. Getting more NBA like by the year

 

[Calm]

Watching officials spot the ball in an NFL game drives me nuts. The worst has to be when a punt goes out of bounds and an official standing 20 yards away gets to run up and guesstimate where the ball crossed the boundary.

I agree with the thought that there has to be a better way in this technology age. But that means the league would have to actually spend some money on something other than the Ginger Hammer's salary.

 

[DHoey]

better?

Where's the defense at?

I can't tell if he's in or out. What was called?

 

[Darrell Green Fan]

Possibly, but would it be enough to overturn the call?

Obviously not seeing as they couldn't get the spot on 4th down right even with a review.

 

[poprocksncoke]

 

[redseat]

Is it me or does it also seem that every time there is a flag every official huddles now to "make sure" they "got it right" and yet they still don't

 

[richig07]

I think 9 times out of 10, it's just fans being fans and bitching.

Last night, was that one time where the fans were right though... That was fucking breathtakingly awful. Those two spots honestly weren't even close. Holy shit.

 

[PDay8810]

I think 9 times out of 10, it's just fans being fans and bitching.

Last night, was that one time where the fans were right though... That was fucking breathtakingly awful. Those two spots honestly weren't even close. Holy shit.

YEP...spotting the ball shouldn't ever be an issue

 

[richig07]

YEP...spotting the ball shouldn't ever be an issue

Especially in those instances. Sometimes things are real tight, and I see how you could miss it in real time. Then, in review you may not have a good angle.

However, last night... it wasn't even CLOSE! Even on the 3rd down play, Miller had the ball nearly a FULL YARD over the marker when his knee touched the ground.

Brutal stuff.

However, it does appear Hopkins was out of bounds...

 

[FaCe-LeE-uS]

 

[NWPATSFAN]

In fairness to the part time refs....they are being asked to officiate a game on the fastest, most elite level. And on this level they have mucked with the rules too much...and tried to enforce new rules for safety that can be subjective in real time and hard to enforce at the speed they are played.

It is not the game they were asked to call a decade ago. While I think there is merit to full time refs, I am just not sure even full time employment can make this easier to do. Maybe a good start would be to reinforce more universal application of the calls.

For me this is the absolute reason I have watched less NFL this year. And it's not even close.

I think many of us agree there will always be missed/bad/wrong subjective penalties called or not called. What really irks most of us are the time, down and distance penalties that get screwed up. Those are not subjected and should be corrected on the spot. A simple buzz from NY telling the officiating crew to move the ball to the correct spot. Or reset the clock.

 

[NWPATSFAN]

Agreed, it happens every week and to every team eventually. Except maybe the Patriots.

Funny Belichick was the one arguing for these angles a couple years back. The competition committee didn't approve them? Yet haters want to keep hating.

 

[fastforward]

Watching officials spot the ball in an NFL game drives me nuts. The worst has to be when a punt goes out of bounds and an official standing 20 yards away gets to run up and guesstimate where the ball crossed the boundary.

I agree with the thought that there has to be a better way in this technology age. But that means the league would have to actually spend some money on something other than the Ginger Hammer's salary.

I bet you're waiting for a punt to 'appear' to be out-of-bounds in the air but be blown back in play by strong winds before it's caught and returned for a TD.

 

[Darrell Green Fan]

Watching officials spot the ball in an NFL game drives me nuts. The worst has to be when a punt goes out of bounds and an official standing 20 yards away gets to run up and guesstimate where the ball crossed the boundary.

I agree with the thought that there has to be a better way in this technology age. But that means the league would have to actually spend some money on something other than the Ginger Hammer's salary.

How about the long run that looks like a TD but was ruled the knee was down or foot out of bounds with the ball inches short? Watch how often the ball ends up being spotted a full yard short. It's really amazing.

 

[kramer1]

In this thread we have people citing evidence of rigging. We have officials and media colluding (gee, when did that last happen?)???? Yet, people will say I'm crazy and a multi multi billion dollar industry has no need to rig their "contests." Nooo,would never, ever happen.

 

[Darrell Green Fan]

Claiming it's rigged is idiotic, I have been addressing incompetence not corruption. Too much time spent discussing the Hopkins play, as I said in my OP it was a close call. There is no excuse for two consecutive bad spots with a replay of one of them.

 

[PDay8810]

In this thread we have people citing evidence of rigging. We have officials and media colluding (gee, when did that last happen?)???? Yet, people will say I'm crazy and a multi multi billion dollar industry has no need to rig their "contests." Nooo,would never, ever happen.

you missed the point of the thread by this much....

 

[Hank Kingsley]

Is it me or does it also seem that every time there is a flag every official huddles now to "make sure" they "got it right" and yet they still don't

Nope, it isn't just you. It's fubar.....