Let the league and the Commish know that the crappy quality and lack of consistency of these refs is putting in jeopardy your continued interest in the NFL! The league is HEMORRAGING fans between the concussion cover up/issue and the national anthem debate. They’ve commissioned studies into fan retention and hired professional marketers to remediate the drops in ratings. LET THEM KNOW there is a third issue that they can actually control - quality and consistency of officiating. Tweet @NFLcommish and @TroyVinvent23. Instagram the same. Let your voices be heard, BBI!
You all know this already, but we are not alone in our frustration and anger at the crap officiating. Let’s start a movement and FORCE change. Voice the easy questions: how is it that college football (“amateurs”) can get it right but the “professionals” (NFL) constantly don’t? Where is the public accountability and transparency when errors are made? We fans invest too much - money, pride, spirit - to continue to be taken for granted!
Twitter and Insta are platforms to get the message across. The Giants fan base is one of the biggest! Let them know - @NFLcommish and @TroyVinvent23.
Nothing can be done about it.you get bad calls, it's been the history of the game..just take the good with the bad and move along
Nothing can be done about it.you get bad calls, it's been the history of the game..just take the good with the bad and move along
micky if they get enough complaints, especially valid ones, they will listen. Wasn't long ago that they admitted to refereeing mistakes. Now it is quashed. That was a disgrace yesterday.
Change the rule where those penalties are reviewable as well as roughing the passer calls
Missed face mask, holding, etc are missed every game, however the others are game altering plays.
The rules change against the defenders are so drastic, the least the league can do is have it backed up. If college can do it the NFL can. Penalized for doing it correctly is not an outcome that is positive
Take human error out of equation. The technology is there.
Players risk a lot and deserve to have refs get it right.
To see such incompetence in almost every level of the NFL is commonplace now.
I don't care anymore, frankly.
Football on Sunday is basically a crapfest and is clearly upstaged by college football.
So, Goodell and the NFL....Have fun! Because like the millions of other fans who have liberated themselves from this shit, add me to the list.
This anger by fans and the media was all predicted going into the season:
• New helmet to helmet rules that were implemented with not much explanation and no thought on how to enforce them
• At least 3 or 4 experience refs retiring in the off season so you have new crews that need to figure this out on their own
• A believe by Park Ave that the loss of a QB to injury is the biggest short term detriment to game. Casual fans won’t watch when the backups are playing.
Moreover, the NFL has made the calculation to incur the wrath of their fans rather than risk the long term prospects of their league. The current NFL “flag football” as many call is the NFL response to the violence of the game that leads to too many injuries and possible increase chances of CTE. Without changing the nature of now defenses play, they fear in 10 or so years the prospect of either the talent base diminishing due to moms not allowing their sons to play or congress stepping and demanding changes if NFL games are seen as a blood sport. That I’m sure is what the NFL’s consultants are telling them.
Bitch and moan all you want but other than tweaking things here and there and maybe occasionally saying their sorry on Monday morning for some calls on Sunday, they are willing to ride it out and expect the players and refs will adjust.
Oh and they will never review each penalty by replay. While that would work it would slow the game to a crawl and TV wouldn’t stand for it.
And there's even a way to fix things without removing the subjectivity - get younger, better refs.
On top of that, make a standard that a penalty is a penalty if it is egregious. That way players decide the games. You don't have 3rd and 14 bailouts on a grazing bump that's called illegal contact. You don't reward a team who just threw the ball out of bounds by calling a defensive hold where two players arms touch. We are where we are partially because the Colts didn't like the Pats pushing the envelope of the rules, but guess what - the players decided the outcome of games, not the refs.
But fuck, when you have guys who miss blatant facemasks or see the facemasks and inexplicably pick up the flags, we're all screwed
And there's even a way to fix things without removing the subjectivity - get younger, better refs.
On top of that, make a standard that a penalty is a penalty if it is egregious. That way players decide the games. You don't have 3rd and 14 bailouts on a grazing bump that's called illegal contact. You don't reward a team who just threw the ball out of bounds by calling a defensive hold where two players arms touch. We are where we are partially because the Colts didn't like the Pats pushing the envelope of the rules, but guess what - the players decided the outcome of games, not the refs.
But fuck, when you have guys who miss blatant facemasks or see the facemasks and inexplicably pick up the flags, we're all screwed
This is spot. The league has become so flag happy. Even there is any doubt, don’t blow the whistle! I understand they want to enforce the game a certain way, but it’s shifted too far. I truly believe it is killing the game.
All of those elements are in place and the customer is watching.
Until that changes, just keep doing what we’re doing...
Otherwise, you all are just chasing your tails...
It used to be that team had to draft well in order to acquire talent but the invent of the salary cap and free agency has created a situation where more teams are very close in talent so we have closer games, hence the officials are being more and more involved in the outcome of games.