Yahoo Sports Report: Referees from Raiders-Bengals game not expected to work rest of playoffs

[ThPantherFan]

Looks like Boger's crew will not be officiating for the rest of the playoffs.  The controversy of the whistle blowing before the catch in the end zone.

[L-TownCat]

[TheProcess]

Boger should have never sniffed a playoff game to start with

[Mvp2014]

They need to blow up the “ref union”.  They have ruined this sport

[jbland]

33 minutes ago, Mvp2014 said:

They need to blow up the “ref union”.  They have ruined this sport

Agreed but the replacements from a few years back were worse. 

[ThPantherFan]

38 minutes ago, Mvp2014 said:

They need to blow up the “ref union”.  They have ruined this sport

Something needs to be redone.  I know they call it at full speed, but there's enough technology that calls can be reviewed quickly and change what's called on the field.  Boger is one of the worse on the field.

[ThPantherFan]

6 minutes ago, jbland said:

Agreed but the replacements from a few years back were worse. 

They were.  Something must be done to be able to change the field call when it's obvious the ref made a mistake.

[Catsfan69]

46 minutes ago, Mvp2014 said:

They need to blow up the “ref union”.  They have ruined this sport

Unions are never a good thing when it comes to work performance. 

[Catsfan69]

6 minutes ago, ThPantherFan said:

They were.  Something must be done to be able to change the field call when it's obvious the ref made a mistake.

I believe that the NFL doesn't use full time Refs.

Have full time refs. No union and make it a meritocracy. 

[Sgt Schultz]

The league has contributed greatly to this situation.  They started by making rules that were impossible to call on the field and had to be looked at on replay.  The former definition of a catch was something that it took two physicists and a mechanical engineer to determine on instant replay, and then they had to look at it frame by frame to figure it out.  They tried to fix that, but the damage had been done.

Remember when they cracked down on hits to the QB?  They followed that up by telling officials that anybody who missed one would be disciplined.  What did they think was going to happen but the worst possible outcome?  They created an environment where officials were throwing major flags on what they thought happened (but not what they saw) or what they expected to happen, but in some cases didn't.

Once they get their officials thinking "they'll just look at it on replay" or "I'd better call it or else," that is a hard trend to reverse.

Moving the umpire out from behind the DL to in the offensive backfield also left two officials looking at the same plays from only a slightly different angle, rather than from opposite angles.

Then, there are three back line officials.  That goes back to 1978, when teams were largely running two wideouts and a tight end.  Given the fact they took the umpire out of a position to provide them any help, maybe they need to look at putting another one back there.  It's not like they don't have room.

[ThPantherFan]

6 hours ago, Sgt Schultz said:

Once they get their officials thinking "they'll just look at it on replay" or "I'd better call it or else," that is a hard trend to reverse.

You make some very good points.  Roughing the passer has gotten out of line.  Brady causes many calls by his dramatics.

[KatsAzz]

The whistle shouldn't have been blown but it was blown a split second before the ball was caught.

There was absolutely no time for the defense to react to the whistle, so it in no way changed the result of the play.

If the play was overturned, the team that would have been robbed would have been the Bengals.

[Sgt Schultz]

43 minutes ago, KatsAzz said:

The whistle shouldn't have been blown but it was blown a split second before the ball was caught.

There was absolutely no time for the defense to react to the whistle, so it in no way changed the result of the play.

If the play was overturned, the team that would have been robbed would have been the Bengals.

Truth is, I would have doubts the DBs on the play even noticed the whistle.  The guys chasing Burrow, yes, but the DBs not so much, especially with the ball in the air.

[Wes21]

9 hours ago, ThPantherFan said:

Something needs to be redone.  I know they call it at full speed, but there's enough technology that calls can be reviewed quickly and change what's called on the field.  Boger is one of the worse on the field.

The league is getting the results that they want a majority of the time, so what motivation do they have to "fix" something that's making them more money?

The replacement refs made mistakes, but they seemed like honest mistakes.  The regular refs are biased and not all of their mistakes are honest.