Thread: NFL Season to Begin With "The Replacements".....Disaster Imminent!

Originally Posted by Riczaj01

Soul, And they have gotten better each week, in one of the pre season games the announcers even mentioned it, the stealers 4th pre game. Again I'm all for the refs on this one, but I know they are bad also.

But their pre season games are their learning curve, this is where they are getting used to the rules. And they have improved each week.

BUT it was the correct ruling, they were just supposed to ask the HC; ever see a ref call that before? No so in that NY/CHI game they actually showed they knew more of the playbook then the reg refs apparently are aware of.

I complain each week about the officiating, So now w/replacements I'm not? makes no sense man. Of course these guys will be bad and worse then the normal refs, I just don't think it's the gap you see it as.

This is where we disagree. If they knew the rule as well as you say they did then the rule states that Coughlin would have that "option" and they never asked if he wanted to exercise it. It is not an automatic call at the end of the 1st Q. Only at halftime or the end of the game.

These guys are so far away from being able to competently ref at this level that certain games will turn into disasters. I'm sure of of it. Not all of them but enough that games will turn on a bad call or too.

Good officials should be transparent as far as the outcome of a game is concerned. Are they always? No. Not even the regular guys are that good but these guys have become the focal point of some games and that's not the way it should be.

The regular guys have a few legit issues and a few others aren't worth pursuing like the pension plan deal. What bothers me though is the way the NFL is handling it. They're trying to blow smoke up our collective asses about these guys like we were a bunch of twelve year olds or women who little or nothing about the game. That and the fact the owners will never move off dead center until they're virtually forced to do it.

This will be a PR nightmare for them before it's all over and done with but they simply chalk it up to the cost of doing business. It's risk a risk management basis operating system. They aren't losing $$$ because of it and until they do it won't matter to them what the overall effect is.

It's like the automaker who decides it's easier to spend $20 mil to settle some wrongful death lawsuits caused by a defective part than it is to spend $200 mil on a recall. The quality of the NFL product will suffer as far as the players and the fans are concerned but as long as it isn't costing the NFL $$$ it will continue to be the way they do business.

Originally Posted by Henry Burris

Backlash will force the NFL to either get the real refs back with a quickness, or allow unlimited challenges, making the game dull, which will be the delayed version of getting the refs back with a quickness.

in that case, Lovie might actually win a challenge or two.

I've come to the conclusion that this is one of those "life things" I can't do anything about. We'll survive the replacement refs. Life will go on.

(it does make me angry though)

Originally Posted by Riczaj01

Soul they knew it better then the full time refs who have never called it.

Maybe there's a reason it's never been called before. It doesn't make a whole lot of sense does it? I'd rather they knew the rules the govern more obvious calls like "incidental contact" isn't Pass Interference and you don't throw a flag for PI when both players are out of bounds and a ball is uncatchable.

If I were them I wouldn't be overly proud about knowing the bizarre but missing the obvious. They have to spot the ball more times during a game than they'll ever have to deal with a penalty as time expires at the end of the first Q.

Just sayin'

Originally Posted by fandace

Good job Benji!

Originally Posted by Riczaj01

Hmmm doesn't seem like these new replacement refs are near as bad as you claimed; Dungy even said they were no worse then the regular refs; which apparently is the general consensus. Missed a few calls, some obvious, but that's what the regular refs do(as I stated). Guess the world isn't ending after all....

LOL, got up pretty early to start arguing about this already didn't you? Nobody can be bad all of the time and since it WAS a nationally televised game you know the NFL had the best crew they could find covering it. Now if they can officiate 15 more just like this one I may agree with you but Sunday isn't here yet.



Hope your daughter does well following her surgery.