NFL Could Give Some Officials Full-Time Status Next Season

theyre going to “think” about getting full time officials…

If making this a full time, highly paid position encourages younger, and hopefully more committed, people to become referees, then fine. But in the short term we are stuck with the same incompetence for another five years or so.

And 99% is not tremendously impressive when you consider how many refereeing decisions are made every play of the game. Football is a game where action away from the ball is just as crucial as what is happening with the ball. Based on how many terrible calls get made or not made around the ball, I shudder to think how poorly the off ball stuff is being called.

I’m on board with what Brian Billick was talking about in one of our last games with incorporating replay/review into everything. If the telecasts can show the replay one second after a play happens and see it from five angles, why can’t officials in a booth? I can’t for one second think that there should be, under NO circumstances be instances in the rule book that call for anything that is wrong, not to be correct. This bullshit about “non-reviewable calls” has got to go. I don’t care if Joe Blow Official got whistle-happy or not. If it’s a fumble, dammit… it’s a fumble.

While I like the idea of full-time officials, I think the flaw is inherently in the system. Wholesale changes to the way games are officiated are needed to get the game up to the digital era. If NBC can “NBSee” it and show that a mistake is made to the millions watching, then it is now the time to get this shit right. I refuse to listen to those that think this would slow the game down or take away the human error portion that’s been in the game since the beginning. The goal should never be to let a game be decided by an official’s mistake, but only by the play on the field.

I also think that penalties should be reviewed. We may be hard-pressed to ever see that, but a hold should be a hold, pass interference should be pass interference, etc. The replay booth should be able to quickly convene on a 58 yd pass interference play and say… “yeah, he got that call right” or “this one needs to be looked at for a second”. The technology is there, but the NFL refuses to move forward. IMHO, the stakes are just too high. With only 16 regular season games, one loss because of a bad call can be the difference between home field advantage throughout and being a wildcard team and having to play every game on the road. It’s the difference between a playoff game and sitting home on wildcard weekend. It’s people’s livelihoods and families. If a mistake is made because of gameplay, different. Again, officiating should never dictate the outcome of the game, only assess penalties that ACTUALLY occur and guide the game so that the calls on the field are correct… that’s it. That should be the goal… making sure that what happens on the field is called correctly.

and this may sound paranoid, but if anyone thinks for one second that the way games are called is gonna change they are living in a dream world. Any league that REQUIRES an injury report so that Vegas and the mob can set their point lines wants variability for the purpose of influence. It’s why coaches only get 2 challenges, it’s why there are “non-reviewable” calls and it’s why when one team fumbles the whistle gets blown and when another team fumbles the whistle stays in the pocket.

The only thing that can be done is to kick butt in all 3 phases and go to championship games with a good looking star quarterback to become media darlings and get on the side of the whistle that the Pack, Saints and Pats live on. I was rooting for the Pack against NY and the non fumble made my stomach turn, but I knew it was coming because we’ve seen it all year.

He will call BS or not call obvious penalties on the other team I’ve seen it to often where the same douche ref screws us the entire game who’s to sa yit will change if that guy becomes a full-time douche.