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Post by FredFan7 on Sept 11, 2012 11:06:18 GMT -5
NFL wants to yank under performing officials during the season which is why they want extra crews. It's not about being fresh or wanting to give officials rest. They want to fire or suspend officials in the middle of the season.
First of all, with the NFL so intent on having Thursday night games, the Thursday night side judge can replace suspended/fired side judge on Sunday.
But if the NFL MUST have a bench ready to come in, then have seven swing officials - including R. If you really want to suspend an official for three games, well then you have a swing official and or a Thursday game official to replace the suspended official.
The NFL wants to radically alter how it treats its officials. Radical change never goes over well. If the NFL wants its officials strictly under its thumb (which is their prerogative), apply pressure slowly and over 3-6 years - not the squash tactics that are being employed now.
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Post by mike on Sept 11, 2012 12:00:03 GMT -5
I think the NFL wants more than 7 swing officials because injuries happen so they do not want their only swing at a position to be replacing an injured official. The contract probably calls for number of weeks off and also usage in Thursday + Sunday/Monday that the NFL may not want to deal with unless absolutely necessary. I do not think NFL wants to suspend/fire midseason otherwise there would be too much blowback from teams that were already affected by the underperforming official. The extra crews are meant to give the NFL more flexibility in scheduling crews that are not as good to games that likely involve two teams that will not be anywhere near a playoff team and also so that playoff assignments actually mean something rather than 15 out of 17 referees getting an onfield, Pro Bowl, or alternate assignment like this past season. With 120 officials (7 crews + 1 swing) by my calculations at MOST 22 officials are not getting a postseason assignment that involves extra pay and among those 22 are rookies. That means an official in the bottom FIFTH (or if there are 5 ineligible officials the bottom 15%) who are getting extra pay for playoffs
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Post by FredFan7 on Sept 11, 2012 12:07:45 GMT -5
I think the CFL has some type of crew cutdown in mid-season where the cuttees aren't fired, but their schedule is drastically reduced.
Maybe the NFL wants to do something like that.
Can anyone from north of the border chime in on this?
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Post by zebrablog on Sept 11, 2012 12:54:30 GMT -5
If you have an officiating bullpen of 3 crews, they can't just sit all season. Otherwise, they wouldn't be a real effective substitution.
As I've said elsewhere (here, maybe). 20 crews divided evenly is 4 bye weeks. That seems to be way too many, but certainly easy to pull someone off a bye without major disruption.
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Post by FredFan7 on Sept 11, 2012 19:40:04 GMT -5
I received this reply from a Canadian football official about how the CFL handles the crews:
The CFL sends 7 guys (a crew's worth) back down to work CIS. CIS = Canadian NCAA. We only have 1 Division. Ie, No Div I, II or III.
This happens on Labour Day, in time for CIS week 1, and just past half-way through the CFL season.
Those 7 guys may or may not be back next year to the CFL. The now-5 CFL crews work Sept and Oct regular season, and Nov playoffs.
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Post by Deleted on Sept 12, 2012 9:01:30 GMT -5
The ironic thing about the extra crews/swing guys is that most of the BCS supervisors (current or former NFLRA members) utilize extra crews and swing guys on a regular basis. There are many times at least 2 crews off in a given week.
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