The ref assignments are out for the playoff games this weekend, and the NFL has rewarded Walt Anderson and Tony Corrente with assignments.
Anderson and Corrente have been on the field for several controversial calls this year and are rewarded with postseason games. Anderson's game is note-worthy to us because it is the Cowboys-Seahawk game. Corrente gets the eagles-Bears. So basically, the two worst refs will get the ones involving the NFC East teams.
The other two refs this weekend - Bill Vinovich and Clete Blakeman have been two of the better crews, yet they only get a Wild Card game
But here's one thing to really look for - Walt Coleman is retiring after this year. He has botched several high-profile calls just in this year and his crew is among the leaders in throwing penalty flags (along with Anderson's).
He is an odds on favorite to officiate the Super Bowl since this 30th year of his career will be his last.
An additional kick in the nuts is that 3 of the 4 best crews are manned by rookie refs. But you know what the NFL does? Makes rookie refs ineligible to work in the playoffs. So, instead of a decent Clay Martin or Sean Smith, we'll likely get to see Jerome Boger ref a critical playoff game.
Was talking with my old man the other day who I have watched football with for almost 35 years. We were saying that the NFL has basically turned in to that old game show Press Your Luck. You run a play and when the play is over you wait to see if you "stopped on a whammy"
Fucking sucks.
Whammy!! - ( New Window )
If anyone saw the end of the Packers-Jets game, you really couldn't make up that some of those flags would fly. The Jets were called for 4 defensive penalties in OT to extend 3rd down stops, and I'm not sure a single one was legit.
Anderson will severely impact the outcome of the Dallas game.
I've never been a big fan of Coleman or Anderson and Corrente doesn't seem to be the same referee after his comeback from cancer.
If there are controversial calls made by these guys, the NFL will look bad again.
Was talking with my old man the other day who I have watched football with for almost 35 years. We were saying that the NFL has basically turned in to that old game show Press Your Luck. You run a play and when the play is over you wait to see if you "stopped on a whammy"
So damn true....my dad and I wait for the flag to be thrown after every play.
Fucking sucks.
...by any bad calls this season.
...by any bad calls this season.
the only thing that bothered me all year, and still bothers me, is the NON call on Odell at the end of the Eagle game
It surpassed "tackling by the helmet" or the moving of the ball during a measurement as one of the most unexplained penalties ever against us.
Keep in mind that Jerome Boger, who reffed that game will probably get an assignment.
But think about accountability. The female official who awarded the redskins a fumble that was clearly recovered by a Browns player who started running with the ball will work a playoff game, and was never disciplined, and even supported for making that call.
It surpassed "tackling by the helmet" or the moving of the ball during a measurement as one of the most unexplained penalties ever against us.
Completely forgot that one.
The whole targeting, helmet on helmet call is so opinionated that it is about as stupid a penalty that there is. Saturday they threw a Miss St kid out of the game when the WR was just as guilty. The WR dropped his head (hey reflex action to an impending hit) and the Miss St player grazed the WRs helmet with his. Whose fault was it? Had the WR not lowered his head, the Miss St kid would have hit the WR in the chest.
The Collins one is a head scratcher - especially since he caught the int...he has a right to the ball in the air as much as the WR.
I understand the intent. But if both players drop their heads, then either they are both gone or it is nothing.
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...by any bad calls this season.
the only thing that bothered me all year, and still bothers me, is the NON call on Odell at the end of the Eagle game
Ugh... that really SU**ED!!!
Anderson and Boger should be fired
Just in week 16, they apologized for a PI call in the Jets-Packers game, but said nothing about the ridiculous PI in the end zone in the Steelers-Saints game.
Worse yet, Blandino pointed out that the ref making the call was shielded and couldn't tell if Kamara was pushed or not - so how the hell can he throw a flag??
To me, throwing a flag for something you didn't see is far worse than anything else as the ref is assuming something - and it is rampant in today's game.
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...by any bad calls this season.
the only thing that bothered me all year, and still bothers me, is the NON call on Odell at the end of the Eagle game
Seems the refs don't look closely enough at legs as I'm still pissed at the missed trip on Tomlinson when the Giants had Brees and the Saints backed up deep.
Probably wouldn't have been a safety but I sure would've liked to see how that drive and rest of the game would've went if there was a penalty called there.
But if the league actually does this we won't have all those wonderful cartoonish fantasy stats they love to inflate. They want more scoring, more offense, extended drives. And they've totally legislated defense out of the sport to do it
I'm sure fanofthejets saw this, but in OT of the Packers-Jets game, Rodgers literally threw up a jumpball on 3rd down, his WR ran out of bounds and when coming back into play, the Jets DB and he jumped for the ball. The Jets DB was flagged for PI despite never contacting the WR.
New set of downs instead of a punt. Eventual winning TD. Game over.
As long as the NFL keeps printing money they wont make a change.
They really need to revamp the entire way the replay system is done, especially since the on-field calls are so inconsistent.
NFL officiating has gone way past incompetent. I am really beginning to think it is fixed.
You'd be hard pressed to find any one score game that didn't have a bad call influence the outcome, and it is almost always having to do with a defensive penalty - defensive holding or illegal contact that extends a drive on a 3rd down stop - even when replays show a defender either not making contact or not initiating contact.
And unfortunately, those calls wouldn't be fixed going to the college system or by modifying replay
VS the Steelers on phantom pass interference calls to start the game?
That was fun...
Was that before or after she gave the Redskins a fumble recovery that Duke Johnson popped right up out a pile with?