NFL Officiating Scandal

McKDaddy · Mar 28, 2018

jwooten15 said:
The NFL often officiates games with specific agendas, so why would this garner national attention?

But doesn't this put proof to that point?

gimmesix · Mar 28, 2018

Jenky said:
Changing rules in the middle of the season...I don't think that's supposed to happen.

Well, it wasn't in the middle of the season, but I don't know why it can't happen. It's the owners' league. They can pretty much do what they want as long as it doesn't violate the CBA.

Jarv · Mar 28, 2018

gimmesix said:
I'm going to guess that the owners gave the go-ahead to do this, probably to try out the possible rule change. Now, it might have only been a handful of owners. I doubt there's any scandal to it.

Some gamblers may disagree although they take their own risk I guess. I'm not a fan of changing the rules, not sure if the teams knew or not but an interesting story none the less. Let's see if it grows legs.

Jenky · Mar 28, 2018

Jarv said:
Some gamblers may disagree although they take their own risk I guess. I'm not a fan of changing the rules, not sure if the teams knew or not but an interesting story none the less. Let's see if it grows legs.

Good point. More of a reason to deem stuff like this as being corrupt.

GenoT · Mar 28, 2018

Wonder if the vote was unanimous for the pre-SB rule change? If that’s true, then no one among the owners has a gripe coming.

But if the catch rule had been necessary during the SB, can you imagine the explanation they woulda had to have made about why the rule had been changed, and went publicly unannounced, before the biggest game of the season?

diefree666 · Mar 28, 2018

The fact that this is the first hint of this argues that no one but whoever decided this and those officials were the only ones that knew. The more people that know of something the faster it gets out.

McKDaddy · Mar 28, 2018

gimmesix said:
Well, it wasn't in the middle of the season, but I don't know why it can't happen. It's the owners' league. They can pretty much do what they want as long as it doesn't violate the CBA.

No, there are guidelines & procedures that are supposed to be followed to enact rule changes.

Besides, its a business, there are unwritten rules about what you do & how you do it without alienating your customers.

If you choose to be fine with it, that is your choice. For me, just another step toward a vote of no confidence.

EST_1986 · Mar 28, 2018

DBOY3141 said:
heard that too. Sheftter even said that the Clement and Ertz TD's would not have counted under the "old rule".

Hate it worked out for the Eagles but those were catches to me

mugsybows · Mar 28, 2018

phildadon86 said:
And it wont be. No one will talk about it

yup, the NFL is WWE and Roger Goodell is Vincent K Macmahon.

Irvin88_4life · Mar 28, 2018

Guess refs operated under different rules when Dallas played this season because those non holding calls were actually not holding.......hmmm makes sense

Jarv · Mar 28, 2018

GenoT said:
Wonder if the vote was unanimous for the pre-SB rule change? If that’s true, then no one among the owners has a gripe coming.

But if the catch rule had been necessary during the SB, can you imagine the explanation they woulda had to have made about why the rule had been changed, and went publicly unannounced, before the biggest game of the season?

Could be that the Rooney's and cousin Mara were upset about the Jesse James "no catch" and got their wishes taken care of immediately. Guess JJ doesn't have the muscle after being furious about the Dez "no catch".

gimmesix · Mar 28, 2018

McKDaddy said:
No, there are guidelines & procedures that are supposed to be followed to enact rule changes.

Besides, its a business, there are unwritten rules about what you do & how you do it without alienating your customers.

If you choose to be fine with it, that is your choice. For me, just another step toward a vote of no confidence.

Produce these guidelines and procedures the league has to follow for rule changes. If the rules are unwritten, then they can be altered without the need to explain it. Businesses do it all the time.

ThreeandOut · Mar 28, 2018

Irvin88_4life said:
Guess refs operated under different rules when Dallas played this season because those non holding calls were actually not holding.......hmmm makes sense

Yeah, that’s the real scandal.

Point-of-the-Star · Mar 28, 2018

Irvin88_4life said:
Guess refs operated under different rules when Dallas played this season because those non holding calls were actually not holding.......hmmm makes sense

Yeppers, that's the real scandal. Officiating being punitive toward the "upstart" Cowboys as directed by Goodhell at the behest of the Old Guard (Mara, Rooney, et al). Don't think this didn't affect a game or two's outcome. (Not that we were advancing anywhere in the playoffs).

This is the basis for Booger's fine too.

LittleD · Mar 28, 2018

Hennessy_King said:
I can't believe Goodell hasn't been assassinated yet.

Really...The Owner's just love him and rewarded him with an ocean liner full of money just a few months ago. Goodell
is going to be here for a long...long time.

Hennessy_King · Mar 28, 2018

LittleD said:
Really...The Owner's just love him and rewarded him with an ocean liner full of money just a few months ago. Goodell
is going to be here for a long...long time.

Who cares if the owners like him. They would like a baboon if it meant them making more money. He's awful for the game.

Cowboys22 · Mar 28, 2018

I don’t really beloeve anything that comes out. There is too much secrecy and underhanded crap going on behind closed doors, that nothing reported can be trusted. They could just have easily tweaked the new catch rule simply to make both of those controversial calls in the super bowl legal catches under the new rule. How can a ball that is still moving at all and not secured as you go out of bounds be considered a catch? It’s laughable but they needed the catch in the super bowl to be a catch.

Jake · Mar 28, 2018

Hennessy_King said:
I can't believe Goodell hasn't been assassinated yet.

jwooten15 said:
The NFL often officiates games with specific agendas, so why would this garner national attention?

Bigdog said:
So there should be asterisk next to the Eagles SB win in the history book.

lostar2009 said:
Yup a lot goes on behind close doors. Roger has killed the NFL.

Only 29 days until the start of the draft.

jwooten15 · Mar 28, 2018

Jake said:
Only 29 days until the start of the draft.

Thank God. We need something tangible to talk about

Miller · Mar 28, 2018

Sydla said:
The Clement one gets me. His foot was clearly on the line and he was moving the ball.

Ertz was a TD old rule or new rule, IMO. That just seems like common sense. But Clement's TD was a joke IMO.

Yes, let’s not go here again. There was nothing controversial about it. Catch, run, cross plane

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