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Originally Posted by smithandrew051
Correct. The league could fix the issues with officiating whenever they want.
Are we really naive enough to believe the League can’t see what we see?
The league could easily afford to make refs full time, station more refs around the field of play, have 2-3 booth refs reviewing plays in real time, implement more technology to help with the human element, etc.
They could do all of this any given season. They don’t.
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And, if they were inclined to have some sort of balance in their game, they wouldn't continue to hamstring the defenses with more and more rules that fall under the heading of "player safety" while also seemingly having no issue with arbitrary standards for what constitutes a hold in the secondary as opposed to pass rushers. On the player safety side it's amazing how a RB can almost always deliver a blow to a defender's head, often times on the facemask, and it's all good. Add that leading with the the crown of his helmet is fine when a RB plows into a defender, but if the defense does it..."Crime of the century". In before "defenseless"....
But what gets lost in this minutia is where the officials get their power to influence outcomes of games. We can all agree that there's a hold on every play (see, I just said it), but it's when an official decides to "let them play" vs "a hold is a hold" - that's where their power is. Subjectivity... A kissing cousin to bias...
Next up, the rarely called push-off... If a WR uses his hands to create separation, that's a push off. But let's not quibble of details... In a league with an interest in games with lots of scoring, they're not going to make the offense's job any more difficult than they have to.
But it is what it is, and we'll all be back next week to reassure the WWFL that they can do anything they want and we won't go away.