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<blockquote data-quote="sjb12681" data-source="post: 816138" data-attributes="member: 8865"><p>Both games last night had glaring, poorly reviewed mistakes by the refs that had a game altering impact.</p><p></p><p>The obvious one in the saints game, which to me was the worst one since our replacement ref fail Mary play.</p><p></p><p>The pats had 2, although much more subtle: the phantom roughing the passer that extended the pats scoring drive late in 4th, and the edleman whiffed punt overturned on replay.</p><p></p><p>It just seems like most times they bring in the NFL officiating analysy, they come out hat in hand like "yup, they got that wrong". A LOT.</p><p></p><p>I don't think the NFL is explicitly asking refs to alter games, but they are becoming far too invloved in the end result. They are meant to be invisible on field and have now regularly become a factor within the game.</p><p></p><p>I don't know what a solution is. They have created many rules out of player safety concern, which isn't going away. In the process, they have whittled such a narrow definition on every minutia of the game while allowing broad in game personal interpretation by the ref on the call, these outcomes almost can't be avoided. It's also why it seems to get worse every year: as they add/alter rules to "fine tweak" them, they more narrowly define and hence more broadly create room for missed/blown calls.</p><p></p><p>Either way, the NFL is walking a fine fine line here...</p><p></p><p>They see a bump in viewership by having these games stay closer and more of a "toss-up" late into the game, but eventually, they are going to have their fanbase turn on them if it begins to feel forcibly altered.</p><p></p><p>Yesterday *FELT* forcibly altered.</p><p></p><p>That's just my take.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="sjb12681, post: 816138, member: 8865"] Both games last night had glaring, poorly reviewed mistakes by the refs that had a game altering impact. The obvious one in the saints game, which to me was the worst one since our replacement ref fail Mary play. The pats had 2, although much more subtle: the phantom roughing the passer that extended the pats scoring drive late in 4th, and the edleman whiffed punt overturned on replay. It just seems like most times they bring in the NFL officiating analysy, they come out hat in hand like "yup, they got that wrong". A LOT. I don't think the NFL is explicitly asking refs to alter games, but they are becoming far too invloved in the end result. They are meant to be invisible on field and have now regularly become a factor within the game. I don't know what a solution is. They have created many rules out of player safety concern, which isn't going away. In the process, they have whittled such a narrow definition on every minutia of the game while allowing broad in game personal interpretation by the ref on the call, these outcomes almost can't be avoided. It's also why it seems to get worse every year: as they add/alter rules to "fine tweak" them, they more narrowly define and hence more broadly create room for missed/blown calls. Either way, the NFL is walking a fine fine line here... They see a bump in viewership by having these games stay closer and more of a "toss-up" late into the game, but eventually, they are going to have their fanbase turn on them if it begins to feel forcibly altered. Yesterday *FELT* forcibly altered. That's just my take. [/QUOTE]
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