Nfl officials incompetent

Good, frick Minnesota

I could see if they missed the call, but they threw the flag and then said no penalty.

Pure garbage.

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could see if they missed the call, but they threw the flag and then said no penalty

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That's the big thing for me. They didn't miss it, they threw the flag for it and then decided nah, frick Minnesota.

It’s troubling watching how bad it’s getting every week. If you’re in a close game, you can bet it’s going to get swung by the refs with a few calls. Might as well flip a coin.

Some of these good defenses, as deemed by the media, just mug the shite out of the offenses with PI every play and physical helmet to helmet hits. NFL let's it go more than 50 % of the time.

I just want fair calls both ways. That Dallas game was pure BS. Thomas was getting mugged with no calls, yet WRs we’re running into Apple and he’d get a PI call against him.

With the refs getting full time gigs, I hope the calls become better. I could see the NFL starting to fine them and things like that in the future. Hell, they’ve already fired and suspended one this year.

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It's very easy for us to criticize a "missed call" from our couches with the perfect camera angle

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But they literally have the same camera angles we have

Nobody bitches about the close calls, the 50/50s. Here's what pisses people off:

- Missing a completely obvious one that the refs are looking directly at, like the Kamara hits
- Inconsistent enforcing of rules that change game-to-game, even from play-to-play. If a ref crew decides they're going to be really stingy with PIs, then fine, both teams have to adjust. But when one two CBs, one on each team, are both mugging a receiver the same way, but only one draws flags, it's BS. When the classic "Is it a catch and fumble, or incomplete pass" definition changes every game, it's frustrating.
- The fact that there's NO recourse for a horribly botched call. Refs don't get suspended. Teams don't get compensation for it later in the game. Teams just have to "live with it" when an objectively bad call causes them to lose. The "Oh well, that's football. Move on" line is such a pussy mentality. The complaints need to be loud and clear that this isn't what the fans want. And I wish more head coaches would call their asses out in post-game instead of playing politics and trying not to get fined. If a call was BS, call them out, apply some pressure, anything

Priority #1 should be for games to be decided by the play on the field. Penalties should be secondary, just a means to keep egregious penalties in check. I know nobody wants to extend games by adding more booth reviews, but I believe teams should get at least one challenge of a penalty per game. In addition, they need to rethink the current coach's challenge system because if you successfully win both your challenges, does it make sense you only get one more rewarded to you? Why do you have to pay for the refs getting so many calls wrong? And if you only win one of them, you're shite out of luck rest of the game? I think as long as you win a challenge, you should get it back.

While I'm ranting, I think they need to do away with the deference to the call on the field when reviewing replays. If a play is reviewed, then go with what it looks like on replay, not it has to be clear and convincing to overturn. The replay is almost always going to be a better resource than what the ref thinks he saw bang-bang live.

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Also, this is frustrating from an official's standpoint too. If the crew last week officiated a team incorrectly and my crew calls things appropriately this week, it hurts our credibility. The teams say things like "they allowed it last week". And we have to respond with something like, "well, I'm sorry about that, but they did it wrong. We have to officiate the rules the way we've been told to".

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That's a good point. I think my gripe there is moreso with the league office's definitions and particularly with the rules that seem to change every year like what counts as a catch.

Most of my grief is stemming from LSU's troubles with the refs this season . It's so hard watching something you love be shite on by something you perceive to be unfair, but there's nothing anybody can do. Just grin and bear it.

Didn't realize you were a ref. I do respect that job and remark most weeks I don't envy being the one that has to make a tough call under that pressure. I'm sure it's annoying getting yelled at one day that you threw too many flags, then the next week you didn't throw enough. I try to be as impartial as I can when watching a replay for one of my teams and see it from both perspectives. That MT13 snag that got reviewed this week I would've been fine being ruled either way...was actually pretty surprised they gave us that one. But every now and then you get an LSU @ TAMU game that gets my blood boiling