Video: Blandino tells officials only the Dallas coaches don't understand the catch rule

[percyhoward]

To complete the catch process, the new rule for 2016 (same as the 2014 rule) states that a receiver must have control + two feet + time enough for a football move. Yesterday at the annual NFL Officiating Clinic, Senior VP of Officiating Dean Blandino spoke to the league's 124 officials about the catch rule, among other topics. It's important to add that this meeting was held in Dallas, Texas.

Blandino: "Control plus two feet plus time. And the time element, in the exercise we've done with all the coaches -- I know I've had them, and the other guys that have done this meeting with the coaches --we've had this 'Aha!' moment in the meetings with the coaching staffs, except for this one staff that is near here...um, in this city...But, this 'Aha!' moment, 'Oh, we get it now. We understand.'"

That's the transcript. To hear it for yourself, go to 1:30 of the video.

 

[AsthmaField]

Blandino can go **** himself.

 

[InDakWeTrust]

Pretty obvious he was putting his bias up there on display..

I know what I saw and I'm still angry about it to this day.

 

[nathanlt]

He's delusional. The only thing he's good at is PR, trying to convince the public that this rule is somehow obvious. As part of that, he sneers at anyone who doesn't understand the nonsense kicking around in his head, trying to make them feel foolish for not understanding. If he can't write it down in a way that makes sense, that's his problem.

I'd bet 80% of fans wait for the officials to decide if an attempted catch was a catch, then say.... "Uh yeah, I knew it all along!" When, in reality, this fool decides what he thinks it is on a whim.

 

[GoCowboysGo]

Control, 3 steps plus lunging at the goal line....what's that in any era?

He's just trying to cover is _ss.

He's the only one in the room with no NFL refereeing experience!!

 

[Jarv]

Said the man with no officiating experience...

The 42-year-old Blandino has never officiated a game. A 1994 graduate of Hofstra University on Long Island, he used to play pickup basketball with Jets players whose training base was at the school. He joined the NFL's officiating department in 1994 as an intern, working under Jerry Seeman, the longtime head of officials.

 

[Tabascocat]

That is like a nurse telling a surgeon that he doesn't know how to remove a gallbladder

 

[Stash]

Why does this idiot still have a job?

 

[Vero_F250]

But Fitz's "catch" was ruled ok...lmao.

 

[dogunwo]

It's just too hard for him to admit that officials just got it wrong.

 

[slick325]

The call on the field was a catch...it shouldn't have been overturned. Had they called it incomplete on the field there would not have been irrefutable evidence to overturn that call either.

 

[percyhoward]

You're an NFL official, and your boss just told you that one team's coaches don't understand all the rules.

Now go out and officiate that team's games.

 

[blindzebra]

It's just too hard for him to admit that officials just got it wrong.

The officials didn't get it wrong, Blandino did. That summer he road the party bus with Stephen and got caught on TMZ. When they picked up the PI flag against Detroit all he heard all week was party bus and he favored Dallas. We were not getting a review in our favor in that game. First they didn't overturn the Cobb "catch" that hit the ground that gave them a FG, then the Dez overturn that ended the game. This was a planned fix and he has spent two years lying his *** off and altering the rule to try to make it fit with the overturn.

 

[Daillest88]

The officials didn't get it wrong, Blandino did. That summer he road the party bus with Stephen and got caught on TMZ. When they picked up the PI flag against Detroit all he heard all week was party bus and he favored Dallas. We were not getting a review in our favor in that game. First they didn't overturn the Cobb "catch" that hit the ground that gave them a FG, then the Dez overturn that ended the game. This was a planned fix and he has spent two years lying his *** off and altering the rule to try to make it fit with the overturn.

I'm glad someone mentioned that Cobb bs catch that obviously hit the ground, I'm still heated over that

 

[Arkyvarminter]

anyone got a vid of Fitz's catch?

 

[Arkyvarminter]

Found one...

 

[DogFace]

**** him.

 

[cowboyblue22]

blindzebra your post is spot on if I could would give you more than one like as they you the whole truth and nothing but the truth.

 

[percyhoward]

You're an NFL official who's a little confused by the catch rule, and needs clarification. Your boss just told you 31 of the league's 32 coaching staffs understand the rule.

You gonna tell him you don't?

 

[hornitosmonster]

He needs to be fired