A referee who calls more penalties for defensive holding and roughing the passer has a far different impact on game flow than a ref who focuses more on offensive holding and false starts. Referee style one week may hide a team's weakness (defensive backs), but a different official who lean...
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Referees aren’t perfect and often important plays can be misjudged. This is why the coach’s challenge exists to prevent bad calls from ruining a game’s outcome. NFL head coaches are allowed a limited number of challenges that they must ration throughout the game. This is why calling a ...
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BOSTON -- It feels like it's been a while since America has gotten a full-fledged botch job from an NFL officiating crew on a prime-time game. Referee Brad Allen and his officiating crew in Green Bay made up for that absence in spades on Sunday night. ...
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To focus on the Lions settling for a number of field goals instead of scoring touchdowns on Monday is to dismiss the reality that if not for two bad calls (and a notable missed call), those field goal drives would have been more than enough to secure a hard-to-come-...
When high-profile referee Ed Hochuli visited the Seahawks' training camp in the months after that Super Bowl, he and his crew took good-natured ribbing from players. "The Super Bowl was one of those games where it seemed the big calls went against Seattle," Hochuli said in August 2006. ...
Not in the sense that the calls are bad or blown; but in the way officials so frequently and inelegantly intervene in the game. They are full on participants. And nobody wants to see it. As an entertainment product, pro football is significantly harmed by referee interference. If I were...
That might be the worst roughing the passer call in the history of roughing the passer calls. — Matthew Bové (@Matt_Bove)October 15, 2024 A.J. Epenesa with his second sack of the night - again on third down - but it's negated by a roughing the passer penalty. This referee crew...