To be an NFL Referee...

[FRPLG]

I think if some things are challengeable then everything should be challengeable. It is toally inconsistent to have the ability to overturn some calls while not others. Every call can cost a team a game and to say basically that you trust the officials to make some calls but noth others sounds ludicrous.
I think there also needs to be something done about this crap where they decide to arbitrarally enforce some rules and not others. Why the hell have the chuck rule for a decade before you even start to enforce it? Makes no sense at all.

[Gmanc711]

Originally Posted by footballfan

Like I said quit bitching and complaining thier nothing you can do about the refs in Denver TIME TO MOVE ON TO KC

No there is nothing you can do about Denver, I agree. Hell, we might not have won the game if it was called perfectly, who knows. But we need to bitch, because this garbage is getting rediculous. Not just during Redskins games, but in the NFL in general. These guys decide so much in every single NFL game and it shouldnt be like that and I'm pissed off about it. Especially with intsant replay, you should be able to review some of these game changing, major penalites. Especially when they have phantom calls...whatever I'm pissed about it.

[RedskinRat]

Yup, so am I Gman.

We as a team have been on the wrong end more than just about any other team (possibly the Raiders).

[monk81]

I saw a piece about the refs...they explained that after each game the coach gets to grade the officiating crew, if there are complaints, then the head ref reviews the game...they get demerits for poorly officated games and if they reach a certain point level for poorly called games, then they are fired.........

I hope Gibbs scored them an "F"

[Daseal]

Unless, as fans, we rise up and challenge the NFL to change their rules they'll continue to have poor reffing. It really hasn't cost the NFL a damn thing because we're all watching next week regardless of how pissed off we may be.

Many of the major penelties are open to interpretation you really need to look hard at how to review them fairly, any little touch could be called pass interference. They also may not have the camera angle(s) necessary for a lot of these challenges.

On a side note -- If a coach challenges a play and the ref doesn't have any type of video to show the play, or at least clearly (players in the way) does the challenging team get to keep that challenge and timeout? Or are they charged automatically?

[Luxorreb]

Refs were awful in the MNF game as well. Ward's 46 yd TD catch that was overturned was one example of a game officiated almost as bad as the Redskins game.