Ref Crew from Bengals/Raiders Game Expected to be Benched

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Referee Jerome Boger and the crew that worked the AFC wild-card game between the Las Vegas Raiders and Cincinnati Bengals are not expected to officiate again this postseason after their problematic performance Saturday highlighted by a controversial whistle.

The NFL grades officials after each game, and Boger and his crew are not expected to receive high marks for Saturday, when they ruled that a whistle occurred after Cincinnati's Tyler Boyd caught a touchdown from Joe Burrow -- although replays appeared to show otherwise.

The league usually takes officials assigned to the divisional round -- not the wild-card round -- to work the Super Bowl. But officials that earn high grades this weekend could and would be under consideration for the Super Bowl.

One league source did not express surprise at Boger's performance; others around the league have commented on it during various points of the season, and the NFL has received mixed reviews for mixing its officiating crews in postseason games, taking officials from different crews and assigning them to work together.

Read More: https://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id...s-game-not-expected-work-again-nfl-postseason
 

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Referee Jerome Boger and the crew that worked the AFC wild-card game between the Las Vegas Raiders and Cincinnati Bengals are not expected to officiate again this postseason after their problematic performance Saturday highlighted by a controversial whistle.

The NFL grades officials after each game, and Boger and his crew are not expected to receive high marks for Saturday, when they ruled that a whistle occurred after Cincinnati's Tyler Boyd caught a touchdown from Joe Burrow -- although replays appeared to show otherwise.

The league usually takes officials assigned to the divisional round -- not the wild-card round -- to work the Super Bowl. But officials that earn high grades this weekend could and would be under consideration for the Super Bowl.

One league source did not express surprise at Boger's performance; others around the league have commented on it during various points of the season, and the NFL has received mixed reviews for mixing its officiating crews in postseason games, taking officials from different crews and assigning them to work together.

Read More: https://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id...s-game-not-expected-work-again-nfl-postseason
Good to see that they're being held accountable....
 

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Referee Jerome Boger and the crew that worked the AFC wild-card game between the Las Vegas Raiders and Cincinnati Bengals are not expected to officiate again this postseason after their problematic performance Saturday highlighted by a controversial whistle.

The NFL grades officials after each game, and Boger and his crew are not expected to receive high marks for Saturday, when they ruled that a whistle occurred after Cincinnati's Tyler Boyd caught a touchdown from Joe Burrow -- although replays appeared to show otherwise.

The league usually takes officials assigned to the divisional round -- not the wild-card round -- to work the Super Bowl. But officials that earn high grades this weekend could and would be under consideration for the Super Bowl.

One league source did not express surprise at Boger's performance; others around the league have commented on it during various points of the season, and the NFL has received mixed reviews for mixing its officiating crews in postseason games, taking officials from different crews and assigning them to work together.

Read More: https://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id...s-game-not-expected-work-again-nfl-postseason


Something else the league will reactively address after it costs a playoff game. That’s how they operate.
 

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There was no reason for the whistle to begin with because he was clearly not out of bounds when he threw the ball. The rules guy doing the telecast knew rather quickly what the correct ruling should have been, seems like "New York" should have known and corrected it.
 

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That 1 second prematurely blown whistle would not have prevented the TD. The nearest DB to the WR who caught the TD was at least 3-4 yards away, not close enough to disrupt the catch.
This.
Not sure why they kept harping on that.
For drama, I guess.
The whistle was blown almost immediately before a catch by a wide-open receiver.
 

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Raiders fans will be talking about this for years on the RaidersZone…..
don't agree

the inadvertent whistle or not the players played, and the play shouldn't have been whistled dead so in the long run it was the correct call to let the td stand,.it was in fact td and Burrows did not step out of bounds or stopped playing. it would have been worse mistake calling that td back IMO.
 
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