stethant Posted September 10, 2012 Share Posted September 10, 2012 When you have a broadcast team that is interested in cataloging the errors, like Collinsworth and Michaels are doing in the PIT/DEN game, the number of officiating errors becomes much more obvious. The average fan is not going to pick this stuff up, so unless the teams raise holy hell this replacement ref business will continue. I agree with the idea that the replacement refs may be here to stay, although I don't think this is best for the game at all. It's going to take a bigger screw-up than we've seen so far this weekend to move ownership to make a deal. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ajh2 Posted September 10, 2012 Share Posted September 10, 2012 I hope that the refs and the NFL come to the collective senses and realize that each needs the other and that NFL's concerns about fulltime refs and new refs is legit and they work something out. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Grits and Shins Posted September 10, 2012 Share Posted September 10, 2012 Bad call in the DEN/PIT game, PIT gets timeout after clock reaches ZERO. Shoould been delay of game. Yeah ... that never would have happened with the regular refs ... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sunday Couch Potatoe Posted September 10, 2012 Share Posted September 10, 2012 So you are saying when the ref.s blow a call ... the team who suffers should just quit then? I mean if the game hinges on a bad call and the ball call goes against you then the game is over ... Ya that's exactly what I was saying Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CaptainHook Posted September 10, 2012 Share Posted September 10, 2012 Refs called everything in the secondary in the Colts at Bears game. Tons of defensive pass interference and even an offensive pass interference . . . however there was murder going on in the trenches that was going on unseen . . . I want the regular bad refs back. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Grits and Shins Posted September 10, 2012 Share Posted September 10, 2012 Ya that's exactly what I was saying If the whole game hinges on one play .. it seems to me like it is pointless to continue the game after that play ... right? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Papajohn Posted September 10, 2012 Share Posted September 10, 2012 If the whole game hinges on one play .. it seems to me like it is pointless to continue the game after that play ... right? No Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Grits and Shins Posted September 10, 2012 Share Posted September 10, 2012 No Then the whole game doesn't hinge on one play? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cunning Runt Posted September 10, 2012 Share Posted September 10, 2012 You can't be serious. I've seen some of the worst officiating in my life today. And this is week 1. Very serious. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sunday Couch Potatoe Posted September 10, 2012 Share Posted September 10, 2012 No If the whole game hinges on one play .. it seems to me like it is pointless to continue the game after that play ... right? Yep stop the game from there and just forfeit Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Papajohn Posted September 10, 2012 Share Posted September 10, 2012 Then the whole game doesn't hinge on one play? You point is pointless and stupid and you know it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Grits and Shins Posted September 10, 2012 Share Posted September 10, 2012 Yep stop the game from there and just forfeit Well everybody that says the game was decided on one play ... isn't that their line of thinking? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sunday Couch Potatoe Posted September 10, 2012 Share Posted September 10, 2012 Well everybody that says the game was decided on one play ... isn't that their line of thinking? I said yep stop the game from there and forfeit what more do you want from me Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Grits and Shins Posted September 10, 2012 Share Posted September 10, 2012 You point is pointless and stupid and you know it. Really ... I think it is stupid to single out a single play ... or even 3 or 4 plays and say the whole game hinged on those plays. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Papajohn Posted September 10, 2012 Share Posted September 10, 2012 Well everybody that says the game was decided on one play ... isn't that their line of thinking? You should get a hobby. You seem to be bored. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Grits and Shins Posted September 10, 2012 Share Posted September 10, 2012 You should get a hobby. You seem to be bored. You defend your position well .... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ditkaless Wonders Posted September 10, 2012 Share Posted September 10, 2012 I noticed the continuity of the Broncos game and the Packers game was negatively impacted by the officiating. BTW, Why isn't harbaugh flagged when he spends so much time out on the field. I noticed this last year and again today. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sunday Couch Potatoe Posted September 10, 2012 Share Posted September 10, 2012 I noticed the continuity of the Broncos game and the Packers game was negatively impacted by the officiating. BTW, Why isn't harbaugh flagged when he spends so much time out on the field. I noticed this last year and again today. There scared of him He is crazy you know Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ditkaless Wonders Posted September 10, 2012 Share Posted September 10, 2012 (edited) There scared of him He is crazy you know He is wound up pretty tight. In a few of his close ups I thought he might lose control and either have his head explode or that he might chew the face off an official. Edited September 10, 2012 by Ditkaless Wonders Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sunday Couch Potatoe Posted September 10, 2012 Share Posted September 10, 2012 He is wound up pretty tight. In a few of his close ups I thought he might lose control and either have his head explode or that he might chew the face of an official. Seriously he gets heated and I love it Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gilthorp Posted September 10, 2012 Share Posted September 10, 2012 Refs called everything in the secondary in the Colts at Bears game. Tons of defensive pass interference and even an offensive pass interference . . . however there was murder going on in the trenches that was going on unseen . . . I want the regular bad refs back. On one side of the ball, or both sides? What exactly were you seeing? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bronco Billy Posted September 10, 2012 Share Posted September 10, 2012 (edited) The regular refs make mistakes all the time ... we gripe about them every year. I'm not sure I believe that the regular refs make any fewer mistakes ... everybody and their mother is LOOKING for mistakes made by the replacements. Yeah, but half the time with the regular refs the griping here is because people don't understand the rules. IMNSHO, the regular refs are much better at legislating the game than the replacement guys, and understandably so. And given the capital at stake and how much effort/time/capital the NFL spends in doing everything it can to enhance/maintain its credibility, I'm shocked that the NFL doesn't seem too concerned about the performance of the replacement refs, and have always been shocked that the refs aren't full time guys who work on film/rule study all week. Edited September 10, 2012 by Bronco Billy Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
delfamdelfam Posted September 10, 2012 Share Posted September 10, 2012 anyone else think the rule where Seattle should of lost a timeout is stupid? I mean it was an incomplete pass so the clock is stopped anyway, why should they be charged a timeout because of an injury? I can see if say it was a completed pass but an incomplete? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bronco Billy Posted September 10, 2012 Share Posted September 10, 2012 anyone else think the rule where Seattle should of lost a timeout is stupid? I mean it was an incomplete pass so the clock is stopped anyway, why should they be charged a timeout because of an injury? I can see if say it was a completed pass but an incomplete? Didn't see the play. Was the player administered to by team staff, or did he get off the field before the play clock ran out on the next play? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
detlef Posted September 10, 2012 Share Posted September 10, 2012 I think the expectation that these guys are going to be blowing calls has a lot to do with the vitriol. People are even complaining about them missing penalties in the trenches. It's been said that you could call a penalty down there on every play, and we allow the real refs the leeway to just call the really bad ones and let the flow of the game continue. Not these guys, it seems. Because we're going in looking for screw-ups. And if we go in looking for screw-ups, we're certainly going to find them. I obviously didn't catch every game and, unfortunately, got only the last few minutes of the Niner game, which many seem to be complaining about. Of the games I caught, I saw about as many blown calls as I normally do. Perhaps a few more, but not enough to detract from my enjoyment of the product on the field. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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