Hoofbite;3088775 said:
The issue seems to be that the league wants to let as much play unfold on the field rather than in the booth.
I think the call sucks but I understand why it is there. I thought the Jets got hosed BIG TIME, worse than Dallas.
They don't want to review mass scrambles and this just gets caught up and left out because of it. Personally, I kind of like premise if only because it leaves LESS up to the officials who from what I can tell are completely and utterly misinformed and mistaken all too frequently.
They should have some sort of "uncontested" clause in that rule that says possession can be reviewed if 1 player is clearly ahead of the pack in terms of recovering the ball. But again, who determines what is "ahead of the pack". It's messy.
IMO, the biggest problem in the league is the inconsistency from crew-to-crew and from week-to-week. Sometimes plays are called in a certain manner and sometimes they aren't.
The officials need to be full time and they need to spend as much time as possible getting on the same page. I didn't get to read all of the thread where full time officiating came up but I fully believe that having guys who work year round would improve the performance on the field.
One argument I saw was that they wouldn't have enough to do throughout the year because the season is only a few months. Why couldn't the officials become fixtures at training camp? Rotate these guys around the league during training camp. I know they are there sometimes, are they there at all times? Have these guys spend a week with a team and go to another team and during the regular season, don't let them officiate for the teams they visited (for those worried about favoritism developing). For the other 5 months, have them review every single penalty called for the previous season and have them go in depth on every challenge. You could find enough for them to do.
Full time officiating needs to happen. Part timers sure as hell are getting as much right as they are getting wrong. What could it hurt to get some committed guys doing the job?
They are there at teams training camps, and OTAs, but not all the time in other words. Like one day in OTAs they will visit one team, then another team next day, then in training camp they will visit all teams in a week or two, then off till preseason games start. Thats what ive been told. I do agree they should be hired full time, and on the same page. But this again has to come from fans towards the commissioner goodell, not mike p.... because all he does is say yes to goodell, the owners, competition committee.
Thats why i tried to ask about getting a petition together, and sending that to some other cowboys boards and to all other NFL teams top boards. Say for instance, you got 100 signatures from cowboys boards, with 100 from each all other teams, that would be 3,200 votes telling of disapproval of poor officiating, forcing the NFL, owners and competition committee to do something. Then after all of the petition is documented with videos of blown calls, the yes answer from mike p... etc you take that to Fox sports, espn, and other top football writers, spread it all over the internet, etc. Then, you would have ammunition that would get to the owners and competition committee to force goodell to do something.
I still dont see why you cant fine someone or suspend him like the commissioner does to players, coaches and owners. Again, the commissioner tells the players, etc that you should set an example of high integrity in the NFL, but when you mess up, I will fine you or suspend you.
Isnt it a low standard of integrity when refs continue to blow calls, and not have the same type of calls.
I do agree with you about they should all be on the same page. Thats like parcells said you have to know each ref crew and what they like to call.
Thats the problem right there, till that is enforced to be on same page, we will continue to get the same ole responses of mike p... the yes man for goodell.
To me, its just like any corporation, if enough people complain about their product, eventually it gets to the owner, in this case, those persons would be the owners of NFL teams and goodell.
In other words when enough fans gripe and are like crawling up their rear end, the owners are going to crawl up goodell's rear end to fix the situation.
To me, with the new labor agreement coming whenever that is, you should take a percentage of whatever the players and owners are complaining about and put in a full time NFL Ref college like baseball has, and hire refs full time. The full time Ref in charge would have the right to fine refs, suspend them or fire them. Not goodell because he tries to cover up the poor job refs do.
