Blandino taking personal control of post-season officiating

[rochrist]

Not just in challenge/replay situations.

NFL announces 'limited adjustment' to postseason officiating

Supposedly, there are some limitations on his role. And given the speed of the game, I believe as a practical matter that in most (not necessarily all) cases they will adhere to those limitations. But still ... blech.

A guy who's never officiated a football game at any level ever in his life. What could possibly go wrong?

 

[YOUGOTMOSSED]

Officially denigrating the NFL into the "sports entertainment/reality TV" zone.

 

[PatsWickedPissah]

Watched that SB at a neighbor's house, an MD who thought he knew everything about everything but was butt ignorant about football. He thought I was batshit crazy with my vocal objections to the egregious calls. Never got invited there again. No loss.

 

[DaBruinz]

In other words, despite roger's recent ball washing of the refs, they realize this year's reffing has been the worst ever.

I don't know about worst ever. The officiating back in 2005 was horrid.. Especially the SuperBowl when the Seahawks got screwed bad.

And then you have the replacement refs that were ridiculously bad..

But, yeah, things have been pretty close to those two years..

 

[oldrover]

Super Bowl 50 preview:



Blandino's the guy on the right.

 

[YOUGOTMOSSED]

Hes been a replay official at a couple of Super Bowls (one was 2005 ) .

Sheesh! What's next? Are they going to contact that NBA officiating crew from game 6 of the 2002 Kings Lakers series to see if they want to try a new sport?

 

[Jackson 2]

Can we preemptively ban Joker from this thread? No good can come of it.

Bull sh*t! I can't freaking wait!!!

 

[Tuck]

There goes our margin for error. You can assume every close call is going against the Pats.

Paging Mr. Kraft...

This was my first thought as well. Now the league office has a mechanism to control the outcome of games.

 

[Jackson 2]

Watched that SB at a neighbor's house, an MD who thought he knew everything about everything but was butt ignorant about football. He thought I was batshit crazy with my vocal objections to the egregious calls. Never got invited there again. No loss.

"...batshit crazy..." He evidently knew a little bit about psychiatry...

 

[The Brandon Five]

This was my first thought as well. Now the league office has a mechanism to control the outcome of the games.

#integrity

 

[RobertWeathers]

Sheesh! What's next? Are they going to contact that NBA officiating crew from game 6 of the 2002 Kings Lakers series to see if they want to try a new sport?

Tim Donaghy is looking for work....

 

[Geezer Butler]

The wording on that really isn't that bad, and if competent officials were behind this it would be fine.

But this is the NFL. I have zero faith this will be implemented in any other way than to further their agenda.

 

[JarOfMayo51]

Not just in challenge/replay situations.

NFL announces 'limited adjustment' to postseason officiating

Supposedly, there are some limitations on his role. And given the speed of the game, I believe as a practical matter that in most (not necessarily all) cases they will adhere to those limitations. But still ... blech.

This news is actually quite frightening to me. Park Avenue trying to get their sniveling little hands into live game officiating for the playoffs... Yikes!

 

[turkeyneck]

Quis custodiet ipsos custodes?

I want every feed they look at archived and I want the room they work in wired for audio and video which also are archived. Archived footage from any game and from Blandino's Bandits' analysis have to be made public if 1/3 of owners request it.

 

[Tuck]

This makes me very nervous because Blandino can initiate his own review whenever he wants and remain silent at his own discretion as well. I would rather the calls be left up to the refs who at least do not have any agendas.

 

[YOUGOTMOSSED]

Tim Donaghy is looking for work....

Nah! He's a whistle blower . . . Not the kind of guy Goodell is looking for.

 

[QuantumMechanic]

One thing I've never been clear about is how the "centralized" replay stuff is supposed to work (if it were fair and there weren't league executives favoring and disfavoring certain teams).

• Does the on-field ref "go under the hood" anymore? Or does he not look at anything and just waits for NY replay central to tell him what do announce?
• If he still does go under the hood what happens? Does he and NY converse about what they are seeing?
• If he still goes go under the hood, who has the theoretical final say? The ref or NY?
• When there's an automatic review (last 2 min, score, etc.) who decides if the ref needs to go under the hood (if refs still do that)? A replay official in the stadium? NY? NY in concert with the on-site replay official? Who has the final say?

 

[RobertWeathers]

The wording on that really isn't that bad, and if competent officials were behind this it would be fine.

But this is the NFL. I have zero faith this will be implemented in any other way than to further their agenda.

Exactly. Lets dissect it.

For the 2015 Postseason, consultation may occur between the Referee and the VP of Officiating or his designee located in the league's officiating headquarters in New York regarding the correct application of playing rules. In addition to the VP of Officiating's current role in Instant Replay, this consultation will only include the appropriate assessment of penalty yardage, the proper administration of the game clock, the correct down, or any other administrative matter not currently reviewable.

OK so a ref on field needs to double check with someone who has NEVER officiated a game before to review the rules??? Is Blandino Mr. Quality Control now?

When has the NFL been successful in implementing anything that didn't have a long drawn-out debugging process?

Playoff games will go to dawn and ball PSI will never get written down.

The world will end.

 

[Jackson 2]

One thing I've never been clear about is how the "centralized" replay stuff is supposed to work (if it were fair and there weren't league executives favoring and disfavoring certain teams).

• Does the on-field ref "go under the hood" anymore? Or does he not look at anything and just waits for NY replay central to tell him what do announce?
• If he still does go under the hood what happens? Does he and NY converse about what they are seeing?
• If he still goes go under the hood, who has the theoretical final say? The ref or NY?
• When there's an automatic review (last 2 min, score, etc.) who decides if the ref needs to go under the hood (if refs still do that)? A replay official in the stadium? NY? NY in concert with the on-site replay official? Who has the final say?

This is how it will work in the playoffs: the replay official will communicate with the head official thusly just before kickoff: I'll give you on every replay the quickest, easiest ruling that will f### NE. You take it from there.

 

[chasa]

Looks legit- Blandino