NFL Officiating: What's The Solution?

It starts at the top with Roger Goodell. Since the owners don't have the guts to do anything about him since they are all making so much money, nothing will happen & there is no accountability for him. It is a vicious cycle & nothing will be done unfortunately.

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It starts at the top with Roger Goodell

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This to begin.

But they're should also be a committee that grades each and every ref's performance on a week-to-week basis and those reports should be made public.

Make them full time but they need to be swapped out roughly every 10 years or so.

There seems to be a combination of things which none of them are good.

1. They are incompetent
2. They are jaded after doing this for so long
3. Their ego got hurt with the new PI rule.
4. They favor certain teams/players

Regardless....they need terms.

Seeing refs have to go and answer media questions is a great idea

1. Full time refs
2. Consequences for egregious misses (I'm talking paychecks or portions of it). Reviewed weekly by an independently hired group

It's too subjective and inconsistent. Refs let their biases affect the calls.

If the NFL wants to get serious about it, they need to use technology and take some of the guesswork out of it. Sensors in the ball and kneepads to mark forward progress and when a player is down. Sensors on the sidelines combined with sensors in shoes would help with in-bounds/out-of-bounds calls.

For PI, contact with a player for more than 2 seconds would trigger a sensor. And so on.

Eliminate holding calls because it happens on every play. Penalty only for chokeholds.

Take as much leeway as possible away from the refs.

They are doing exactly what they are instructed to do. Results are predetermined, and since even those owners Roger fricks over are receiving millions of dollars in revenue and the value of their franchises continues to escalate, they DGAF. It’s entertainment, pure and simple. No different than the WWE, just higher pay for the actors and more at stake financially.

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So if the “full-time” official gets fired what does he do for a living then?

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What does anyone thats not competent at their job do if they get fired. Get another one. Go to another league or do something else

Saints need to put bounties on officials. Let players start knocking down and running over officials on “accident”.

Heck Carolina can shove officials and nothing happens.