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Post by Deleted on Oct 7, 2015 17:43:49 GMT -5
One missed call does not end an Official's playoff chances… If this statement is true, then it is a shame for the NFL Officiating Department. When you make a big of an error Greg Wilson just made (an error that cost a team the game), there should no chance that you should be given a reward at the end of the season. Of course triplette badly screwed up the Indy Cincy game in 2013 an was rewarded with a playoff game.
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Post by FredFan7 on Oct 7, 2015 21:13:56 GMT -5
The year Ed Hochuli blew an inadvertent whistle he got a playoff game.
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Post by hank on Oct 8, 2015 0:50:29 GMT -5
The year Ed Hochuli blew an inadvertent whistle he got a playoff game. Ed was also transparent and accountable to all in his mistake.
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Post by cj on Oct 8, 2015 13:21:19 GMT -5
There of course was the Phil Lucket incident(s) where Lucket claims he was told that while his "ratings" should have given him a playoff assignment, the league simply couldn't afford the public relations hit after Lucket was unfairly blamed for two gaffes the first on a national Thanksgiving telecast and then the other in the infamous Jets-Seattle game the very following week after being the subject of derision on the pre game shows when his line judge mistook Vinny Testaverde's helmet for the football and awarded the Jets a bogus touchdown in the dying seconds of the game. Lucket got all the blame and the league simply refused to back him.
However to counter this argument, there was Jeff Triplette after a year of bungled calls getting a playoff assignment but I suspect if Wilson were to get an assignment, a big stink would be made somewhere (especially from Detroit).
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Post by I've been warned on Oct 9, 2015 0:41:11 GMT -5
A downgrade is a downgrade. There is no hierarchy or degree of downgrade. A foul missed that would only have resulted in a meaningless 5 yard penalty is no different than an egregious error that clearly costs a team a game. At the end of the year, Wilson can easily still earn a playoff spot. Nobody has played themselves in or out at this point of the season.
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Post by sullim4 on Oct 9, 2015 11:56:50 GMT -5
A downgrade is a downgrade. There is no hierarchy or degree of downgrade. A foul missed that would only have resulted in a meaningless 5 yard penalty is no different than an egregious error that clearly costs a team a game. At the end of the year, Wilson can easily still earn a playoff spot. Nobody has played themselves in or out at this point of the season. ... and I think that's a problem. If there's a critical mistake made in a game (5 downs, blatant misapplication of the rules, extra timeout, etc), that should certainly be viewed as more grievous than a borderline DPI or a poor spot. The whole "downgrade" concept is flawed, it doesn't really identify the best/worst officials at each position. It's just a count of various errors. Speaking as a fan, I would much rather have an official working my team's game that had five downgrades for minor things rather than one with a single downgrade for a very major error. Frankly I'd be furious if I were a Detroit fan and Wilson gets a high profile postseason assignment this year. If the current system isn't taking that into account, well, then it should.
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