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Originally Posted by GloryDayz
I appreciate the sentiment, but I'm not sure how the Refs get excused because we didn't play a perfect game and win despite them. Seems like you're looking for a way to excuse their part of the shit show. I'm NOT saying I don't agree with the parts you pointed out where our team ****ed up, but I'm not sure that's a reason to absolve the officials for calling a shitty game (too).
As for Fenton "calling him out", if that's such a terrible thing, why didn't it ****-over Brady and Manning all these years? It seems like even there it seems like certain players can get into official's faces and get them to look for things that they're whining about, but only a select few. That seems wrong too. All players should have equal access to air their grievances with the Zebras, not just a select few.
And if it was really a tough job, as tough as I think you're implying, wouldn't they reserve it to fulltime staff? Laugh at that all you want, but that's because you don't have a really good explanation for why the exceedingly rich sport can't make the people who officiate their product fulltime staff members.
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Not giving the refs a pass. Just was giving insight into how a red can subconsciously get into a flow of calling things over and over against the same team.
NFL is one of the most profitable companies in the world. Not having FT referees is beyond stupid.
I have no idea how the NFL handles referee evaluations but if they don't do full debriefs after every game they need to start.
In pro soccer, even the lower levels like the USl the refs get reviewed after virtually every game.
Referees will even be sent home and no longer assigned games for a period of time.
No reason for the NFL to not do the same sort of thing.
NFL could gain back a lot of trust from fans if they did this.