Dear Refs: Go **** Yourselves

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jetstream1066 said:
Shhhhhhhh...by the way....do you like beer?
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Uh-oh... this is like a candy-offering stranger in a windowless van...


Claremonster said:
Even Pats fans are guests here, when you get down to it. I'm not sayin', I'm just sayin' :coffee:
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Does this mean I have to take my Pink Floyd posters down and move out of the server room?
 
ManningRules said:
My mom passed away, but thanks for bringing up that memory.
Stay classy!
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I don't think officials are too concerned about getting calls right the first time, since the opportunity is there to overturn many calls by challenge and replay.

It's like a worker knowingly performing his job sloppily, and passing an inferior product on to quality control for them to discover, then pass or reject.

Maybe replays should be viewed before making a debatable call on the field?

With every season comes new points of emphasis. Why? Shouldn't calls be made by refs with equal emphasis on infractions? Of course they'll miss a bunch every game, but to highlight certain infractions over others seasonally is ridiculous, IMO.
 
Beaglebay said:
I don't think officials are too concerned about getting calls right the first time, since the opportunity is there to overturn many calls by challenge and replay.

It's like a worker knowingly performing his job sloppily, and passing an inferior product on to quality control for them to discover, then pass or reject.

Maybe replays should be viewed before making a debatable call on the field?

With every season comes new points of emphasis. Why? Shouldn't calls be made by refs with equal emphasis on infractions? Of course they'll miss a bunch every game, but to highlight certain infractions over others seasonally is ridiculous, IMO.
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Completely. Belichick meets with officials prior to every game so that they can tell him what they are planning on calling that week.

Why? Because they take direction from Park Ave. and those guys are trying to keep the pumps primed while believing that no football fan would ever get so tired of seeing incompetent officiating that they would just walk away from watching the sport.

I personally feel stupider every week for following this sport. Right now, I'm torn between my love for the Pats and my hatred of the NFL. The Pats are winning, but I'm not sure if I can continue on indefinitely the way shit seems to be eroding.

I'd also like to emphasize that while the refs take all the blame -- the league office doesn't get nearly enough credit for contributing to the mess with contradictory and/or senseless rules designed to protect them from litigation which are almost impossible to enforce and frequent changes in emphasis, not to mention an obscenely stupid method of hiring part-timers as their fall guys to perpetrate fraud on the people who care.

I hate it so much that I'm afraid if I start to rant I won't be able to stop.

Watching that game Sunday night was a torturous experience. I'm watching my beleagured team getting jobbed time after time and I'm listening to Al and Chris tell me that it's all completely legit. It's Orwellian. Or something. I felt like I was in a nightmare.

At times, the sport of football is barely recognizable.
 
Hawg73 said:
Completely. Belichick meets with officials prior to every game so that they can tell him what they are planning on calling that week.

Why? Because they take direction from Park Ave. and those guys are trying to keep the pumps primed while believing that no football fan would ever get so tired of seeing incompetent officiating that they would just walk away from watching the sport.

I personally feel stupider every week for following this sport. Right now, I'm torn between my love for the Pats and my hatred of the NFL. The Pats are winning, but I'm not sure if I can continue on indefinitely the way shit seems to be eroding.

I'd also like to emphasize that while the refs take all the blame -- the league office doesn't get nearly enough credit for contributing to the mess with contradictory and/or senseless rules designed to protect them from litigation which are almost impossible to enforce and frequent changes in emphasis, not to mention an obscenely stupid method of hiring part-timers as their fall guys to perpetrate fraud on the people who care.

I hate it so much that I'm afraid if I start to rant I won't be able to stop.

Watching that game Sunday night was a torturous experience. I'm watching my beleagured team getting jobbed time after time and I'm listening to Al and Chris tell me that it's all completely legit. It's Orwellian. Or something. I felt like I was in a nightmare.

At times, the sport of football is barely recognizable.
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Agreed. I wrote this in the "Perspective" thread.

Between what goes on behind the scenes that I'd rather not know about (injuries, narcotics, parental intervention, arrests, false accusations, NFL lies, domestic violence, etc.) and Roger Goodell, I feel like my love for NFL football has been tested the last 2 years. The SB win brought me back for this year but I wonder if that's a temporary thing. IDK.
 
The rule book is a problem.

You can't legislate every damn little thing, it's starting to look like the tax code or an ordinance that attempts to strictly define pornography.

The way they re-wrote the rules after BB used tricky formations to trick the Ravens was ridiculous. The formation was intended to deceive, that's the whole point.

Let's not even get started on the "Personal Conduct Policy".

This league is choking on it's own success and the owners (including ours) are too short sighted to see the problem. When they finally figure it out it will be too late to do anything about it.
 
Darth Despot said:
The rule book is a problem.

You can't legislate every damn little thing, it's starting to look like the tax code or an ordinance that attempts to strictly define pornography.

The way they re-wrote the rules after BB used tricky formations to trick the Ravens was ridiculous. The formation was intended to deceive, that's the whole point.

Let's not even get started on the "Personal Conduct Policy".

This league is choking on it's own success and the owners (including ours) are too short sighted to see the problem. When they finally figure it out it will be too late to do anything about it.
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I think it would be less of a problem, if they didn't change a bunch of rules every year or change the interpretation of said rules from week to week.

This league needs to get it's head out of it's ass, because despite what these owners think - people will start to find other things to do..

I used to watch every game I could, this year I'm pretty much only watching Patriots games..
 
The problem is compounded by establishing new rules in the the name of 'balance', when a more effective remedy would be to tweak existing rules.

Does the DPI rule go too far? Scale it back instead of adding or enhancing OPI rules for 'equity'. Can't decide what constitutes a catch? Rewrite the rule so it's clearer.

I have nothing positive to say about the NFL FO; typical managerial incompetence meddling with employee productivity and product quality.

The whole system reeks. I find solace in the fact that I've got dozens of tapes from the past decade to watch if the NFL doesn't clean itself up. Not a bad option, for a NE fan :)
 
http://boston.cbslocal.com/2015/12/...ing-new-heights-with-no-improvement-in-sight/

BOSTON (CBS) — We watch our sports because we enjoy seeing the greatest athletes in the world compete on the grandest stages. We marvel at their feats, at the spectacular plays, at the unforgettable and unbelievable moments. We watch because we know that at any point, history may be written on the field.

One thing that is never the reason for our viewership is the officiating. We do not tune in on TV or shell out hundreds of bucks for tickets in order to see The Referee Show.

Yet the NFL has itself an officiating problem, one that’s popped up more often than not in the league’s prime-time games this season, and one that’s receiving more attention than ever before.

While complaining after the fact has always been a part of consuming sports, we’re now at the point where we know so much about the men in stripes that folks are preemptively complaining about bad officiating that has yet to happen. And those concerns are legitimate.

The issue this week is that the NFL deemed referee Pete Morelli and his officiating crew to have done a poor job last week in the game between the Cardinals and 49ers. Such a poor job, in fact, that it became necessary to remove that crew from the prime-time game on Sunday night. Considering we’ve seen botched calls on Monday Night Football (Detroit losing on a non-call of an illegal bat in the end zone in Seattle; the Bills being robbed of a Hail Mary opportunity in a game that also featured an inadvertent whistle; 18 seconds vanishing from the clock in San Diego; the Ravens’ getting hosed when the referee failed to notice a player declaring himself as an eligible receiver; the Ravens later getting the benefit of being offside on the game-winning field-goal block, to name a few), and considering this past Sunday night’s game included far too much involvement from Tony Corrente’s officiating crew (the same crew from the Seahawks-Lions controversy, not-so-coincidentally) in what would have been a marvelous Patriots-Broncos game without overzealous and inconsistent officials, Dean Blandino figured the best way to quiet the national conversation about his inept officials is to take them off the night-time games, sweep the problem under the rug, and hope nobody notices.

In other words: Standard operating procedure at 345 Park Avenue.

The issues in prime-time games only accentuate what has been a league-wide issue throughout the year. Just last week, Yahoo’s Eric Edholm tackled the ambitious task of listing the five worst calls of the season in the NFL, a list that became instantly obsolete just a few days later. On Monday, he had to write about all of the controversial officiating from Sunday night’s game, and on Tuesday he had to write about the Browns potentially getting hosed at the end of Monday night’s game as well as an article on Morelli’s crew getting yanked from prime time.

That is the life of an NFL writer these days — you’re forced to spend as much time discussing the officiating as you spend on the game itself.

That’s not how this is supposed to work.

And in the case of Morelli’s crew, the NFL’s decision to reassign them will certainly prove to be a counterproductive move, as a giant spotlight will now shine upon Gillette Stadium on Sunday afternoon when the Patriots host the Eagles. This is the same crew that last week forgot how to keep track of what down it was, and they performed so poorly that the winning head coach and a losing player felt compelled to discuss just how terrible they really were.

“I’m not really too worried about getting fined. I thought those refs sucked,” 49ers guard Alex Boone succinctly stated. “It’s guys like that, working in this league, work on this field, and we have to deal with it. You know, whatever. It was a terrible call. They’ve had terrible calls all game. I don’t care what the league says. I don’t care what Roger [Goodell] says. It’s the truth. You don’t like it, get the hell out of here.”

Cardinals head coach Bruce Arians wasn’t any more pleased with the officiating, despite the victory.

“The officials were struggling … mightily. They can’t count to three,” Arians said. “It was a FUBAR on their part. They can try to explain it. They’re wrong.”

If this were a one-time thing, then it might be excusable. But this is the same officiating crew that was in charge of what was arguably the most poorly officiating playoff game in NFL history — last season’s Lions-Cowboys game.



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I like the SF G.

You're gonna be made available to the media post game and also filter what I'm saying?

F u Rog.
 
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