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Click bait. More garbage. The sad part is when what should be reputable Packer sites are stupid enough to carry articles about it, and indicate they believe it. The NFL rarely admits their officials made mistakes, and if they do, they say, "Sorry!", and move on without doing anything to rectify what was done. How would they? Replay the whole game, or strip Detroit of the win? Not on your life. Never going to happen.
As for suspending officials, or firing them, if that was the case, they'd lose a crew nearly every week, because there are some dumb decisions made by them. It goes with the territory. Part time employees that make over $200,000 a year, and that doesn't include bonuses from working playoff games, and Super Bowls. For a Super Bowl, it's in the $40,000 average for the Head Referee, and goes slightly lower for other positions.
If you want to see how wobbly the NFL is with it, watch the network "experts" who were officials as they waffle their comments in a way that seems to cover up almost all the mistakes they made, then they use "legalese" to buffalo their way through sticky ones. It shows just how poor a job they do.
So tell me this. They are pretty darned good about catching a guy's toes dragging in bounds on a catch, and getting those close observations right, but at the same time, these guys can't seem to see a DB grabbing the arm of a receiver, and throwing them off balance, so they can't make a catch, when it happens in plain view, right in front of them? Those same officials also have a problem in seeing face mask penalties at times, but still are so astute that they can call illegal contact, helmet to helmet, when the defenders helmet barely brushes the QB's, in making a tackle.
I believe they read too much into what people suggest to them happens with teams, and they automatically go with that flow. If someone says the Lions don't commit that particular penalty, and it occurs in front of them, they don't call it because..... after all........ someone said they don't do that.
Then I hear comments from announcers who say; "Let them play! Reviews take up too much time!" If that's the case, why bother to play the game, or if you do, why bother to have rules if they aren't going to be enforced.
The one that always gets me is the 7 men on the line of scrimmage, and you see OTs back far enough that their at least as far from the line as the wide outs. How can that be? A jagged LOS? I don't think so!
As for suspending officials, or firing them, if that was the case, they'd lose a crew nearly every week, because there are some dumb decisions made by them. It goes with the territory. Part time employees that make over $200,000 a year, and that doesn't include bonuses from working playoff games, and Super Bowls. For a Super Bowl, it's in the $40,000 average for the Head Referee, and goes slightly lower for other positions.
If you want to see how wobbly the NFL is with it, watch the network "experts" who were officials as they waffle their comments in a way that seems to cover up almost all the mistakes they made, then they use "legalese" to buffalo their way through sticky ones. It shows just how poor a job they do.
So tell me this. They are pretty darned good about catching a guy's toes dragging in bounds on a catch, and getting those close observations right, but at the same time, these guys can't seem to see a DB grabbing the arm of a receiver, and throwing them off balance, so they can't make a catch, when it happens in plain view, right in front of them? Those same officials also have a problem in seeing face mask penalties at times, but still are so astute that they can call illegal contact, helmet to helmet, when the defenders helmet barely brushes the QB's, in making a tackle.
I believe they read too much into what people suggest to them happens with teams, and they automatically go with that flow. If someone says the Lions don't commit that particular penalty, and it occurs in front of them, they don't call it because..... after all........ someone said they don't do that.
Then I hear comments from announcers who say; "Let them play! Reviews take up too much time!" If that's the case, why bother to play the game, or if you do, why bother to have rules if they aren't going to be enforced.
The one that always gets me is the 7 men on the line of scrimmage, and you see OTs back far enough that their at least as far from the line as the wide outs. How can that be? A jagged LOS? I don't think so!
