Ron Torbert has been a solid under referee the past four seasons, on par with Bill Vinovich in this category. However, he was 10-7 over the total in 2024. The new starting field position has resulted in higher scoring games in 2024, and Torbert wasn't immune from that shift. That sai...
Under one interpretation of the term, “grabbing an opponent to restrict…a defender” is literally the action taken by 100% of blockers on 100% of blocking assignments, for example. What does “away from the point of attack and not within close line play” really mean? What is the ...
referee Jerome Boger are both in the NFL. There is precedent for fathers and sons working together. If Tra is not on the same crew as his dad, I’m sure the NFL will pair the two together in a preseason game.
He makes the Patriots' line calls and makes them well; Tom Brady stands unruffled in the pocket, brushing his hair, in part because New England has fewer botched blocking assignments than any other NFL team. Koppen was a key to New England's record-setting 2007 offensive season and has ...
The cameramen's assignments differed depending on the opponent. For instance, Walsh told investigators that against Indianapolis he was directed to take close-ups of the Colts' offensive signals, then of Peyton Manning's hand signals. Mostly, though, the tapes were of defensive signals. Each vide...