Get ready for replacement officials in the NFL

[ChiefsandO'sfan]

Adam Schefter ‏@AdamSchefter

Talks between NFL and officials for new deal have broken off. NFL has advised all teams it is now working to hire replacement officials.



Adam Schefter ‏@AdamSchefter

NFL looking to hire officials from anywhere but BCS: Elite retired college officials, ones from small college conferences, even Arena ball.

[vailpass]

Originally Posted by Deberg_1990

Could they be any worse than the real officials?

Careful what you ask for.

[Mother****erJones]

Awesome maybe now these refs will call a ****ing holding penalty on the LT that holds Hali!!!

[frazod]

Originally Posted by dtchiefs4life

Awesome maybe now these refs will call a ****ing holding penalty on the LT that holds Hali!!!

Only if he gets traded to another team.

[The Mayor]

PFT
Goodell doesn’t seem concerned about replacement refs
Posted by Michael David Smith on August 1, 2012, 1:42 PM EDT

With the NFL and its officials at a standstill in negotiations on a new contract, and with the league poised to begin the preseason using replacement officials, Commissioner Roger Goodell doesn’t seem particularly concerned about the matter.

“We had discussions recently,” Goodell said at a visit to Packers camp, via the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel. “Hopefully, we’ll have more in the near future. But as you can see we’re preparing for the season and we will [have] officials on the field. We hope our officials from last season will be on the field this season.”

At the moment, it doesn’t appear that they will be the same officials from last season. Instead, the NFL is training a couple hundred replacement officials, most of whom have no experience at the NFL level or even at the highest levels of college football. Goodell acknowledged the concerns about player safety if novice officials aren’t properly enforcing the rules designed to keep players safe, but he said that wasn’t a problem the last time the NFL used replacements.

“That’s why we’ve been training them for the last two months,” he said. “We had this experience in 2002 [editor's note: It was actually 2001] and the big impact in 2002 was you didn’t get the holding calls and some of the other calls. Safety is such a focus for us. They’ve been training on that basis.”

Goodell said the proposal the NFL has made to the officials is fair. The officials don’t agree. Which means there’s a good chance those replacement officials will still be in place when the games start to count for real.

I mentioned this in the "Get ready for female officials" thread, but I remember the replacement officials in 2001 being horrible. I also recall that the NFL and officials compromised right after 9-11.

[Bo's Pelini]

That sucks. NFL referees were the best out of any sport.

[frazod]

Originally Posted by Bo's Pelini

That sucks. NFL referees were the best out of any sport.

Apparently you're not a Chiefs fan.

[Bo's Pelini]

Originally Posted by frazod

Apparently you're not a Chiefs fan.

Yeah I don't give a shit that Hali never gets holding calls. Every good pass rusher gets held.

[frazod]

Originally Posted by Bo's Pelini

Yeah I don't give a shit that Hali never gets holding calls. Every good pass rusher gets held.

Well, the ones from small market midwestern no superstar teams certainly do.

I'm glad that works for you.

[KC_Lee]

Originally Posted by ChiefsandO'sfan

Adam Schefter ‏@AdamSchefter

NFL looking to hire officials from anywhere but BCS: Elite retired college officials, ones from small college conferences, even Arena ball.

Somewhere...Herm Edwards' head just exploded...

[Bo's Pelini]

Originally Posted by frazod

Well, the ones from small market midwestern no superstar teams certainly do.

I'm glad that works for you.

Stop with the victim bullshit. Every good pass rusher gets held you don't think the refs could call holding every time DeMarcus Ware rushes the passer?

[frazod]

Originally Posted by Bo's Pelini

Stop with the victim bullshit. Every good pass rusher gets held you don't think the refs could call holding every time DeMarcus Ware rushes the passer?

Are you really ****ing naive enough to believe there's not a pattern to it?

I've said it before - go back and watch the Chiefs/Packers game from last year. Two blatant, obvious holds, both of which happened directly in front of an official, which weren't called. These two plays directly resulted in 10 Green Bay points.

[lcarus]

Originally Posted by Bo's Pelini

Stop with the victim bullshit. Every good pass rusher gets held you don't think the refs could call holding every time DeMarcus Ware rushes the passer?

I would agree, but some of them are soooo ****ing god damn obvious that it blows my mind how often they get away with it.

[Bo's Pelini]

Originally Posted by frazod

Are you really ****ing naive enough to believe there's not a pattern to it?

I've said it before - go back and watch the Chiefs/Packers game from last year. Two blatant, obvious holds, both of which happened directly in front of an official, which weren't called. These two plays directly resulted in 10 Green Bay points.

[Discuss Thrower]

Originally Posted by Bo's Pelini

Stop with the victim bullshit. Every good pass rusher gets held you don't think the refs could call holding every time DeMarcus Ware rushes the passer?

It's one thing to be held in a manner that is technically violates the written rule.

It's an entirely different thing when the player is in a headlock, tackled from behind, or face masked,..

[durtyrute]

Originally Posted by boogblaster

hopefully the new ones will call afew more holding calls on who ever tries to block hali .....

this