What do you think of the officiating in the NFL?

[Arm of Harm]

19 hours ago, Spartacus said:

you assume the league disagrees with calls the refs are making that you think are wrong. 

likely the league supports those calls as they are pushing a league mandated narrative for the games in question.  

 

hard to be held "accountable" when the refs are doing what the league directed

 

 

 

Well, there’s that. In a perfect world the NFL would want officiating to be fair. By fair I mean blind to the player and blind to the player’s uniform. Roughing the passer, for example, should be called the same way for all QBs, regardless of whether it’s Tom Brady or Nate Peterman. That’s being blind to the player. 
 

As you hinted there are excellent reasons for the NFL to not want fair officiating. A big market team winning lots of games might produce a bigger uptick in television ratings than a small market team winning those games. Some Super Bowl matchups would result in much higher ratings than others. 
 

Then you have organizational politics within the NFL. Some owners wield more clout than others. More clout might mean better calls. 
 

So, you have what the NFL wants to do with officiating, which might not involve making it as fair as possible. Then there’s what it figures it actually can do. If it openly tells officials which teams it wants to win, that risks officials speaking out and getting exposed. Of course, the television networks have strong financial incentives for the NFL to look good, and it’s not as though those incentives are going to be counterbalanced by any sort of journalistic integrity. The television networks would likely hush up any officiating scandal. Even so, the NFL might be (and probably is) too cautious to try to be as overt in its influence as I’ve suggested. 
 

It’s also worth remembering the NFL is not the only entity with incentive to influence officials. If officiating is biased, which it is, it could be that others are influencing officials to be biased, and the NFL’s lack of accountability mechanisms make it less than fully effective in pushing back against that. We don’t know what’s happening behind the scenes. All we can say with certainty is that the quality of officiating is low, and that officiating favors some teams over others. 

[Nanker]

Maybe if Brandon gets his 45,000 new IRS agents they could put about 1,000 of them to look into the bank accounts of the NFL officials. Just sayin’. 

[Ann]

Tony Corrente will retire after the season
 

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During what will be his final season in the NFL, Corrente found himself in the middle of an avoidable controversy, after flagging Bears linebacker Cassius Marsh for taunting during a Monday night game in Pittsburgh. Marsh impermissibly (in Corrente’s assessment) “posturing” to the Steelers sideline.
 

As Marsh passed Corrente, the referee threw a hip in Marsh’s direction, a bizarre move for which the NFL did not (as far as anyone knows) discipline Corrente.
 

The controversy became a welcome one for the NFL, given that it drew attention away from a horrendous low block call by Corrente that negated a touchdown.
 

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[Foxx]

More proof our perceptions are validated.

 

[Crap Throwing Clavin]

3 hours ago, Foxx said:

More proof our perceptions are validated.

 

 

Keep in mind there's a sort of auto-correlative bias at work there too, in that good teams are more likely to be strongly affected.

 

Since, y'know, bad teams like the Jets, Jags, or Texans have such low win probabilities that penalties can't really help or hurt them as much.

[Ann]

Inadvertent whistle

 

 

[Foxx]

1 hour ago, Ann said:

Inadvertent whistle

 

 

That was tough. Always seems he needs air time. He's getting a little portly too.

[Sig1Hunter]

20 hours ago, Ann said:

Inadvertent whistle

 

 

Wow..some transparency? I like it!

[Alaska Darin]

3 hours ago, Sig1Hunter said:

Wow..some transparency? I like it!

The bigger question is "how is Jerome Boger still an NFL official?"

 

I don't remember 5 NFL Official's names, but it seems like EVERY SINGLE GAME this clown officiates is a shit show.

[Ann]

Pool report from #SFvsDAL:

[Foxx]

7 minutes ago, Ann said:

Pool report from #SFvsDAL:

There were a number of officiating issues in this game yesterday. This, however, was not one of them.

 

The focus should on the idiot Dak who slid in the middle of the field with 9 seconds to play and them needing a Hail Mary to win

[Sig1Hunter]

1 hour ago, Foxx said:

There were a number of officiating issues in this game yesterday. This, however, was not one of them.

 

The focus should on the idiot Dak who slid in the middle of the field with 9 seconds to play and them needing a Hail Mary to win

That contract was a mistake…poor Jerry

[Nanker]

1 hour ago, Sig1Hunter said:

That contract was a mistake…poor Jerry

Couldn’t happen to a nicer narcissist. 

[Foxx]

2 hours ago, Sig1Hunter said:

That contract was a mistake…poor Jerry

One thing I will give Jerry (maybe it's his son, dunno) is he (they) can identify talent in the draft.

[Ann]

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[B-Man]

 

NFL

Report: NFL Changes Lowering-Of-Helmet Rule

 

 

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[IDBillzFan]

So I've never been one to think he had a better idea for rules, but the dumbest penalty is when non-uniformed players celebrate in the endzone after a touchdown, and then refs assess the penalty on the ensuing kickoff.

 

They should assess that penalty on the extra point. Add 15 yards to that kick. Let's see who's wearing their civies to celebrate after that.

[Ann]

In this week's Bills by the Numbers podcast presented by FanDuel, Chris Brown and Steve Tasker take a look at what penalties were the biggest problems for the Bills in 2021 and if there's any consistency to those calls during the Sean McDermott era. The pair discuss if the Bills style of play on offense and defense lends to being a benefit or problem with the new points of emphasis for officials. In ‘The Numbers Game’ we quizzed Steve on who drew the most penalties on the Bills last season. FOX Sports/NFL/NCAA rules analyst and former NFL head of officiating Dean Blandino discussed which penalties are points of emphasis this season and which could increase or decrease. We also examine more penalty specifics in “These Three Things”. 

Which Penalties Will Increase or Decrease in 2022? | Bills by the Numbers Ep. 37 | Buffalo Bills
 

 

[Ann]

A fine?