replacement refs giving more of a home field advantage...

[rayzor]

at least in week one anyway.

saw this from rick gosselin (via darin gantt tweet)

RickGosselinDMN

Replacement refs seemed affected by crowd -- calling 26 more penalties against the road teams (104) than the home teams (78) thus far.

RickGosselinDMN

@lunger24 Last year there was a 66-penalty difference for the entire season between home and road, an average of almost 4 per week.

the missing PI calls that people were saying were effected by the crowd...not so much of an imagined thing as you'd think.

the good thing is, unless the NFL really cracks down and the replacement refs overcorrect, we should be good the next couple weeks.

[Greg Schiano]

It didn't matter with our game (Panthers @ Bucs), our crowd was large enough to fill up the local IHOP. Next time we'll put manikins with speakers attached to them out there to make you think people showed up.

[Khaki Lackey]

There was an article in SI a few years back about the home field advantage, and the biggest advantage was the calls went the home teams' way more often than not.

We would have to know the stats from week one with the regular refs for this stat to be any kind of indictment on the replacement refs.

[CRA]

at least in week one anyway.

saw this from rick gosselin (via darin gantt tweet)

the missing PI calls that people were saying were effected by the crowd...not so much of an imagined thing as you'd think.

the good thing is, unless the NFL really cracks down and the replacement refs overcorrect, we should be good the next couple weeks.

Or the reverse happens.....NFL points out what they a doing and they attempt to over correct the problem

[rayzor]

he talked a little more about previous seasons...

RickGosselinDMN

@fancred @Brad_Gagnon

On opening day in 2010 there was a seven penalty difference between home and road.

RickGosselinDMN

@toddarcher @jasonjwilde

You have to go back to 2005 to find the last time 4 road teams were assessed 10+ penalties on the opening weekend.

[rayzor]

Or the reverse happens.....NFL points out what they a doing and they attempt to over correct the problem

at least in week one anyway.

saw this from rick gosselin (via darin gantt tweet)

the missing PI calls that people were saying were effected by the crowd...not so much of an imagined thing as you'd think.

the good thing is, unless the NFL really cracks down and the replacement refs overcorrect, we should be good the next couple weeks.

[PantherBlue]

I just wish the stingy, rich, pathetic owners would pay the refs what they deserve. Instead they make themselves look like the cheap jokes they really are.

I mean come on, they pay these players ungodly amounts of money but when it comes to good officiating they don't won't to pay them squat for their skills.

Instead of the players and owners striking (or locking out), it would be nice if the fans did the same for one year. I think the players and owners would get a reality check.

[beastson]

I just wish the stingy, rich, pathetic owners would pay the refs what they deserve. Instead they make themselves look like the cheap jokes they really are.

I mean come on, they pay these players ungodly amounts of money but when it comes to good officiating they don't won't to pay them squat for their skills.

Instead of the players and owners striking (or locking out), it would be nice if the fans did the same for one year. I think the players and owners would get a reality check.

Please god damn, we need our refs back. I can't take this poo. WTF is going on with the NFL man

[Herbert The Love Bug]

all I know is the refs didn't call any holding or PI on the Bucs the whole game and they were literally doing it the whole game. But then they called a lot on the panthers

[rayzor]

all I know is the refs didn't call any holding or PI on the Bucs the whole game and they were literally doing it the whole game. But then they called a lot on the panthers

this is correct....and it was consistent throughout the league.

[Care-Oh-Linuh]

Money is stupid.

[Inimicus]

I just wish the stingy, rich, pathetic owners would pay the refs what they deserve. Instead they make themselves look like the cheap jokes they really are.

I mean come on, they pay these players ungodly amounts of money but when it comes to good officiating they don't won't to pay them squat for their skills.

Instead of the players and owners striking (or locking out), it would be nice if the fans did the same for one year. I think the players and owners would get a reality check.

Don't pay them squat?

Seriously?

Are you high?

NFL refs make between 25k and 75k per year and have retirement benefits in the form of a very generous pension for a PART TIME JOB. They have better retirement benefits than full time NFL employees for the love of Christ. Top that off with the fact that the last NFL offer would raise the ceiling for refs PART TIME salary to as high as 200k and the refs rejected it.

The party that's fuging up is NOT the NFL. Not this time.

[Ivan The Awesome]

I have a feeling that the Refs will not help us this Sunday. With all this buzz about home field favoritism. They'll call less penalties our way now. I just have a feeling.

[Khaki Lackey]

I have a feeling that the Refs will not help us this Sunday. With all this buzz about home field favoritism. They'll call less penalties our way now. I just have a feeling.

It does suck, this coming out right before our first home game. The fact that it's against a division rival and just following a loss to another division rival is just icing on the cake.