After the Ravens game, Vinovich is probably the one best suited to effectively adjudicating the crazy formations that the Pats are running, so the NFL would be nuts not to have him out there. He'll have marching orders from the league regarding how much consideration to give the Hawks defenders, but so would anyone else, so that won't make much of a difference. The fact that he won't be as likely to be confused and reactionary is the biggest thing.
The one thing that concerns me about Vinovich is his use of instant replay. I usually can tell what an official is seeing, but with him, I often wonder if he is watching a different game under the hood. It's like he has middle-age man eyes, like me, and needs glasses for the up-close viewing, even while his on field vision is fine. Factual speculation aside (and homerific value judgments front and center, where they belong in these situations), I think he goes under there and simply makes the easiest call, rather than the right one, and that bugs me most of all.
