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Referee Jeff Triplette, who worked yesterday's #Titans-#Chiefs Wild Card game, has told folks around him he's retiring from @NFL officiating. And the heartfelt hugs he exchanged w/ his crew after dinner last night? Def looked like good-byes.
2:54 AM - 7 Jan 2018 |
I hope the door hits his ass on way out. Most incompetent official of my lifetime, and sealed his career of ineptitude with the Mariota "forward progress" call last night when it was clearly a fumble. How this clown got a playoff assignment is beyond me.
The list of leaguewide offenses is plentiful, but for us he singlehandedly tried to steal games from our beloved Giants, particularly against Green Bay. GFY, jerk.
There is plenty of terrible officiating, but I think most fans attribute it to refs sucking at their job. Interested to hear if people think it is planned and malicious, and why they would do that.
There is plenty of terrible officiating, but I think most fans attribute it to refs sucking at their job. Interested to hear if people think it is planned and malicious, and why they would do that.
Agreed. The "the ref has it out for my team" people are the absolute worst
I was a high school and college ref and one of my teachers is a NFL ref and he always mentioned how certain NFL referees just want to be on tv and make calls to be on t.v. they want to be talked about the next day on sportscenter..
I think NBA has a bigger problem with officiating than the nfl...
Officiating is still a huge problem for the NFL.
Here's something to chew on though. How bad is officiating, when Triplette graded out well enough to get a playoff game?
Here's something to chew on though. How bad is officiating, when Triplette graded out well enough to get a playoff game?
Id love for them to make the grades public. It would be interesting to see who he was graded higher than and why.
They annually put the worst refs in playoff games and they should have to justify their reasoning. Too often it seems they simply put the recognizable names out there instead of the best guys.
Personally I don't notice any difference in the "quality" in the last 25 years.
The truth is, with everything that goes on during every single play and 22 guys to keep an eye on, it's the toughest sport to get right.
Where Triplette stands out in his incompetence is that he often loses control of a game, ends up having a lot of conferences that disrupt the game, and he makes poor interpretations on the rules. Messing up rules is inexcuseable.
By calling forward motion stopped on a play where Mariota was hit immediately and not held up or in the grasp is just a terrible ruling, and unfortunately, it can't be challenged. That's indicative of some terrible calls he's made over the years.
He is remembered primarily for his mistakes, including accidentally injuring Browns offensive tackle Orlando Browns eye with a weighted penalty flag, and making a replay error in a 2013 Bengals-Colts game, leading the NFL to change the replay process to give the league office input.
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Triplette blew the play dead immediately when Chiefs linebacker Derrick Johnson hit Titans quarterback Marcus Mariota, ruing forward progress had stopped and the play was over. Replays appeared to show that Mariota had fumbled.
On Mariotas touchdown pass to himself, Triplette wrongly announced that Mariota was an eligible receiver because he was in the shotgun formation. In reality, the ball had been touched by a defensive player, which means every player on the field was an eligible receiver.
After one penalty, there was a long delay while the officials conferred repeatedly, trying to figure out the right place to spot the ball.
On a Titans first down, the ball was spotted about three yards short of where it should have been, forcing the Titans to challenge.
Triplette announced that one Titans penalty was on No. 11. The Titans didnt have a No. 11 on the field because the player with that number is Alex Tanney, a backup quarterback who is on injured reserve and wasnt suited up for the game.
In the final minutes, Derrick Henry tackled, was clearly down and one official blew a whistle. But after Henry went down the ball was stripped from Henry and Johnson picked it up and ran to the end zone, and the other officials allowed the play to keep going even though one had blown it dead. Replay eventually got it right, but once one official had blown it dead, it should have been over there.
Triplette has long had a reputation as the NFLs worst referee. That was on display to a playoff audience on Saturday.
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Replay mitigates most of them, and a few slide by. It's the nature of a game, on a huge field, with limited officials and complex rules.
If there's a villian in any of this, it's the rules committee for creating insane levels of rules, then instructing officials yearly on points of emphasis. Emphasis? Get the eff out with that shit.
Triplette has long had a reputation as the NFLs worst referee. That was on display to a playoff audience on Saturday.
If you took a poll of players, coaches and fans, Triplette would likely rank very high as the worst ref in the league.
So how the hell does he get to work a playoff game?
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Triplette has long had a reputation as the NFLs worst referee. That was on display to a playoff audience on Saturday.
If you took a poll of players, coaches and fans, Triplette would likely rank very high as the worst ref in the league.
So how the hell does he get to work a playoff game?
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Not calling the Mariota play a fumble likely allowed the Titans to win.
It had as much of an impact as any replayed play.
Jeff Triplette doesn't know the rules
Remember him overturning a replay without any evidence whatsoever?
Are there rankings available to understand this?
Remember him overturning a replay without any evidence whatsoever?
correct, still a horror show
I believe that was the first start of Eli's career.
Knew the writing was on the wall?
Maybe a demotion?
Anyway Goodbye Jeff..you were a ........special..kind of referee.
Steratore is even worse as a college basketball ref, IMO. A two sport suck.
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Steratore is up there too.
Steratore is even worse as a college basketball ref, IMO. A two sport suck.
Tony, you know I agree that Steratore is much worse in the Big 10, where he is turning into the King Karl Hess of the conference. His crew is bad.
He brings back bad memories of Lenny Wirtz.
GTFO, Jeff.