i dont know if any of you have gotten the opportunity to watch the weekly segment in which rich eisen grills perriea about the weeks questionable calls. not once can he admit that his guys in fact blew the call and comes up with half assed excuses. its just funny watching him defend calls as they are being replayed next to him that are clearly wrong such as the barton hit on leftwich and the "catch that wasnt". you would figure after all of the unnessary roughing the passer calls he would tell his men to ease up but once again this week against the pats they blow it once again. to the new commish if you have any balls whatsoever can this moron and get somebody competent enough to get these crews in line.
Actually, I love his segment because he gives insight into what the rulebook actually states specifically and what officials look for. The only time this season he seemed uneasy was with the Baker "touchdown." He should have just admitted the judgement call was poor judgemnet. Can't wait to see him tonight on the Hobson call.
On the Hobson call, he will ignore the fact that Brady jumped in the air, to get the pass off, and claim that Hobson lifted him up. I can see the Ref missing that in Real Time, but if he goes Pinocchio on us....
You think he should go on the NFL Network and roast the officials? Not going to happen. You don't know what's actually being said behind the scenes.... what's being said on TV is meaningless.
I know this is hard for people to understand, but just because the guy doenst publicly bow down to teams after bad calls does not mean he's doing a bad job. Year after year the competition comitee has had more to do with the new rules than perreira, so dont blame the messenger. No shot Goodell fires him either, hes been a mainstay at the league for too long
im not so much concerned about him publicly "roasting" his officials as i am of him getting his crews in line. the officiating this year league wide i think has been horrendous.
What % of calls do they get wrong? 1? 1.2? officiating is not horrendous. You just remember the 3-4 bad calls and not the 4000 good ones.
Absolutely. I mean, I was screaming about the Hobson call, which was terrible, but on the whole I'm amazed the officials see as much as they do. Cotchery's TD catch, for one, was a tough call in real time. Same goes for the Pats fumble up the sideline. Both were tough calls, and called correctly.
Lets cradle the QB like a Baby when he get hits....This rule is BS. I think the QBs should wear their red shirts during the game with flags on the side.
the bottom line...is money and tv ratings.....the LEAGUE knows it has to protect the quarterbacks....even on the side of making bad calls.
Did anyone see Mike Pereira's spot? He handled this play wisely. He not only explained the rule (which is the "problem", not the officiating) but he contrasted Hobson's hit with film of a Vilma sack in Jacksonville which was textbook. I'm not saying I agree with the rule, as Rich Eisen said, these guys are expected to think way to much while running full speed through the line at the QB, but it's not the call that's the problem.
yeah you hit it on the nail. me and my friend discuss it all the time because he prefers NCAA and I, NFL. we both bleed football though. but basically and as sad as it is, theyre protecting their marquee marketing puppets (QB's) keep them healthy, sell jerseys, posters, tickets, endorsements. yeah pretty lame. and I love the NFL network.( had sunday ticket since it became available) but what theyre doing now is even not showing double headers in some regions and only showing shitty matchups. strongarming people into switching to direc tv solely for a game worth watching. but hey, thats business. but now its almost to a point where its not about the game anymore and the fans have to suffer.
Hobson hit was awesome to me. Everyone knows who played the game, they taught you to hit man in the numbers and drive you legs. He never lifted Brady, and I feel the rule about bringing your weight down on the player is totally wrong.
The NFL is a business.. once you understand that, everything else makes more sense. The NCAA is a business too, as football programs fund the entire athletic department of universities. Now onto the NFL Network / Sunday Ticket thing. This is NOT the NFL's fault. The NETWORKS do not want as many doubleheaders, and PREFER it this way. It reduces their costs. Again, Network TV is a business. If the NFL wants the TV money, they have to play by their rules. Unfortunate, yes, but it's necessary. Without TV, there would be no NFL.
The most scarest thing that came out last night was that his officials can blow plays dead. They show what was a clear fumble and he say's that he instructed his crews to blow this play dead so theres no scrum on the ground for the ball. Then he went on to say that if there is a scrum that there has to be proof positive on who recovered the ball,adding that in this case that wasnt the issue because his official already blew the play dead.
Notice the other ref trying to stop the guy from ruling the ball down by contact? He was actually bear hugging him. With the amount of money the league pulls in, the NFL needs to hire full time refs who can pass the same visual tests as airline pilots, at the very least.
Well man it seemed like he admitted that the Aaron Smith call was crap. But you are right about the Hobson thing. If ti really is written in the rules that a player cannot come down with his weight on the QB then this league is only lacking a team called The Fairies. The damn guy is on the field, if he gets hit, he gets hit. How in the name of shit can someone who is moving full steam ahead and oftemtimes off their feet after contact control the manner in which they hit the ground? It is totally ridiculous. Now yes, it did look like Hobson tried to drive Brady into the ground, but it really was not a bad hit, and I thing that if he hadn;t drive him back so much but instead tried to just maek it one hard blast in the chest, he might have gotten away with it, similar to the hit Kitna took last w/e, the guy just blasted him and took him down without driving him back first.
