We tend to only focus on NFL referees after a controversial decision or bad no-call. Yet, each head NFL referee and his respective crew interprets the game differently. Gaining insight into the way a game will be officiated can have immense value in the betting market. A referee who call...
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Some Browns Backers will rationalize this pathetic season by saying that the Browns have had to deal with a lot of injuries and bad calls, that the Browns were hit especially hard by COVID protocols and lost two games as a result, that the Browns were one dropped punt snap here and one ...
making bad calls against them. I’m not of the opinion it’s a conspiracy, just that referees have an expectation of mistakes when dealing with bad teams and fulfill those prophecies with bad calls. Also, bad teams usually don’t get the best officiating crews and this also leads to ...
Every Sunday, social media is full of excuses for the Chiefs’ success: The referees are helping them with big calls in their favor at clutch moments; Mahomes draws penalties in an unfair way; the NFL is fixing the games to get Kelce’s girlfriend Taylor Swift on TV to spike ratings, ...
Everyone's piling on the replacement refs in the NFL, but perhaps the most hilarious spoof of the series of bad calls is Replacement Google.
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Maybe it’s because I’m a boxing fan, but I’ve accepted the reality that NFL referees are going to get in the way of most games, similar to boxing judges who tend to be the story of most championship fights due to heinous scorecards. It’s just part of the sport. I’m not say...
Let’s hope none of it will be caused by the referees. Our US sports blogger Alex Ferguson looks at the four play-off showdowns, and has his questions... Are they going to referee the games properly? Live NFL Get Sky Sports Get a NOW Sports Membership It was...
“There’s still going to be arguing with referees,” he said. “They’re still going to make bad calls. But now we’re going to know that it’s coming from a base of knowledge. These guys know what they’re talking about and they’re going to have an argument for why they do ...