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Such an awful day for officiating, and probably the worst year I can ever remember in terms of the Pats getting hosed again and again.
While more cameras and sensors could undoubtedly help, some common sense changes would help more:
- have a ref upstairs and another watching TV, who can immediately call attention to a bad or missed call, and if it's clear let them overrule without replay, no matter what it is (penalty, catch, ball placement). The NCAA has some form of that.
- this ridiculous rushing to the LOS to get off the next play on a muffed reception has to stop. Like baseball let the coach ask for a pause so the team can look at replays.
- the refs also get a lot of ball placements wrong - I must have seen 10 of those yesterday which all mattered, a yard short of the first down.
- the clock between plays causes so many delay of games - a 30 yard pass and the team has to sprint down the field or they can't get the next play off, or the ref SOMETIMES puts another 25 seconds up there - come on!
- give the refs some discretion on late hits and other personal fouls so some can be 5 or 10 yards, not always 15 yards for an accidental touch out of bounds, and really none of them should result in an automatic 1st down.
- fix what's a catch, whether in the ez or not. The rules at the front of the ez are so different than the sides or back - just insanity.
- blow the freakin whistle immediately when a runner is ganged up on by 3 or more players
The probIems are partially the officials on the field, but it's mainly the league office.
While more cameras and sensors could undoubtedly help, some common sense changes would help more:
- have a ref upstairs and another watching TV, who can immediately call attention to a bad or missed call, and if it's clear let them overrule without replay, no matter what it is (penalty, catch, ball placement). The NCAA has some form of that.
- this ridiculous rushing to the LOS to get off the next play on a muffed reception has to stop. Like baseball let the coach ask for a pause so the team can look at replays.
- the refs also get a lot of ball placements wrong - I must have seen 10 of those yesterday which all mattered, a yard short of the first down.
- the clock between plays causes so many delay of games - a 30 yard pass and the team has to sprint down the field or they can't get the next play off, or the ref SOMETIMES puts another 25 seconds up there - come on!
- give the refs some discretion on late hits and other personal fouls so some can be 5 or 10 yards, not always 15 yards for an accidental touch out of bounds, and really none of them should result in an automatic 1st down.
- fix what's a catch, whether in the ez or not. The rules at the front of the ez are so different than the sides or back - just insanity.
- blow the freakin whistle immediately when a runner is ganged up on by 3 or more players
The probIems are partially the officials on the field, but it's mainly the league office.