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Post by cj on Nov 25, 2015 18:09:41 GMT -5
This is meant to be a neutral post but I've just read an article laying out that it might be time to look at Blandino and whether or not the officiating has deteriorated under his leadership. Is a man who never worked a football game in his life qualifid to have the position? Now we all knew Mike Periera was a breath of fresh air taking over for the totally stoic Jerry Seeman and I remember Art McNally from whom you could never get one piece of information. Carl Johnson, of course we would all agree, was simply out of his ballpark. Blandino's claim to fame is that he helped develop the totally illogical, flawed instant replay with the silly coach's challenges and the inability to correct obviously wrong calls under the silly rules that such and such is not reviewable. We have also begun the process of centralizing instant replay which I believe is centralized although the league likes to give the illusion that it is not (again can you imagine anybody wishing to hold his job disagreeing with his boss).
Scott Green also all but said what I just said although he was ore or less peeved about the suspension of the officials for the errors that should have been corrected.
I think everybody agrees there is something inherently wrong with the officiating. Of course most anybody can make a mistake and the game is next to impossible to officiate perfectly. But there are simply too many crucil errors, especially late in games when a team cannot recover from a bad call.
Any thoughts?
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Post by teo on Nov 25, 2015 19:35:01 GMT -5
I don't think that Blandino is qualyfied for the job, but I think that there are other problems anyone in charge would had comparing to McNally and co. and they are: all that cameras with super slow motion that a few years ago didn't existed (and undresses the mistakes any human make) and the ridiculous rule of what is a catch. I know that with all the rules benifitting the offense a NFL catch must be tougher, but i think it has to be judged in real time, not in slow motion, and get rid of the ground causes an incompletion if the receiver has the feet and posession long enough.
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Post by mike on Nov 25, 2015 21:19:40 GMT -5
Put Walt Anderson or Bill Carollo in charge. They both know a thing or two about training NFL caliber officials
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Post by FredFan7 on Nov 25, 2015 21:32:39 GMT -5
The rules are too complicated. They make a rule for a what is a catch then make exceptions to that rule so the fans can enjoy spectacular catches (the Bert Emmanuel play) and or make receivers work for the catch (the whole process ofnthe catch and football moves).
Instead of three or four interpretations of a catch, officials have several more hoops (rule exceptions) to jump through before they make the call. Even the best can get confused and may shade their own opinions into the call (remember the strike zone in baseball 20 years ago?).
Officiating the game in a computer lab will not fix it if humans interpret the video - part reason why the Blandino never officiated criticism is being made.
That's just for a catch. There are timing rules, formation rules, blocking rules, and safety rules. Those rules may change regarding the status of the ball or if possession changes in the middle of the diwn.
I have more thoughts on this matter but I think it starts with simplified rules.
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Post by FredFan7 on Nov 25, 2015 21:41:10 GMT -5
I also think that Blandino has not been in charge long to build up gravitas.
If Pereira were still in charge he'd be in his 15th year in charge and would have a long record of accomplishment to go on.
There were some "fire Pereira" threads on here in the early 2000s after a few rough weeks like this. Remember Pereira was only an NFL official for two or three years before becoming the boss of officials who had been at it five times longer.
I can guarantee you that the next boss will be a former official - whenever that opening is.
It is up to the NFL to quietly go about building the pool of candidates before the vacàncy.
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Post by Deleted on Nov 25, 2015 23:36:48 GMT -5
Thin is is blandino goodells puppet or do they not like each other? Perierra overcame his inexperience on the field to advance officiating. Blandino has screwed it all up and would likely throw a penalty flag in his own face if on the field. I'm surprised the union hasn't threatened another strike. There'll be another year of heavy turnover and veterans leaving because of how things have gone.
And dumb Dino wants to add an 8th official yet has no idea where to place this official??? Sounds like a cluster f*ck to me. If you remember back to the preseason most of the ADP officials worked a game as U2 which made no sense because of them are not refs or umps in college.
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Post by tj888 on Nov 26, 2015 1:53:09 GMT -5
I just have a question. The amount of turnover in the last 2 year was extremely high (23 officials hired and 20 officials retired/let go). Is this due to Blandino wanting a younger group of officials or is this because of this new development program and that they must hire some officials from that program every year so that the program can function. I may recall that an official can only be in the development program for 3 years only. What happens if for three years none of the umpires retired, does that mean all of the umpires in the development program gets released and new ones are selected OR does it meant that the NFL/Blandino will force some retirements to create openings for hirings to be made from the development program? I think that they are forcing still good officials to retire simply because they want to hire younger and cheaper officials and keep the development program going.
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Post by FredFan7 on Nov 26, 2015 2:09:42 GMT -5
I just have a question. The amount of turnover in the last 2 year was extremely high (23 officials hired and 20 officials retired/let go). Is this due to Blandino wanting a younger group of officials or is this because of this new development program and that they must hire some officials from that program every year so that the program can function. I may recall that an official can only be in the development program for 3 years only. What happens if for three years none of the umpires retired, does that mean all of the umpires in the development program gets released and new ones are selected OR does it meant that the NFL/Blandino will force some retirements to create openings for hirings to be made from the development program? I think that they are forcing still good officials to retire simply because they want to hire younger and cheaper officials and keep the development program going. Working on a post addressing many new officials equal lack of experience equal messy games. I think HL123 is an example. |
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Post by cj on Nov 26, 2015 3:12:03 GMT -5
...just as a counter argument and not necessarily endorsing what I'm about to say, one of the problems according to some is you have older men (and soon women) trying to keep up with world class athletes. Can a person in his or her late 40's keep up? So perhaps you have to sacrifice some experience for some athleticism. Or perhaps not.
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Post by theglenn on Nov 26, 2015 9:23:43 GMT -5
Young, old, men, women, it doesn't matter as long as they are part time.
Full time employees would be able to train together, watch film together, have meetings with Blandino (or whoever) together for longer than a day or two.
They would not be watching a video with just their crew (or by themselves). Crews would have a group understanding.
Add to that not being worried about their "real" jobs and having time to physically train for the games? How could it be a bad idea?
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Post by Deleted on Nov 26, 2015 12:41:47 GMT -5
Don't forget most of the ADP officials this year worked as U2 which made no sense. Most of them are not refs or umpires in college so few worked their actual position.
I can see more officials bein forced out so that new ones can be brought in which is pathetic. I predict at least 8 officials will retire on their own this year because of how bad things have become.
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Post by cj on Nov 30, 2015 16:43:54 GMT -5
Another bad weekend with lots of controversies. I didn't see the Arizona-San Francisco game but read Ben's assessment of the game and it is hardly favorable to Morelli and his crew including botched downs, a penalty for illegal touching a pass by receiver who failed to establish himself that should have been calle an incomplete forward pass and a phantom rtp call that helped decide the game. I did watch the Seattle-Pittsburgh game and thought they got both of the disputed completions/interceptions right ultimately although the bobble on the completion by the Pittsburgh player could hardly be seen by the naked eye but was obvious on replay. The interception play I thought the intercepter had established control and landed in bounds and then went out of bounds. Mike Carey got both of them wrong.
However, interestingly enough, Boomer Essiason both on his show on WFAN this morning and when he went on Boston CBS radio said he has heard there is a lot of growing resentment among the offficials towars Blandino. Without necessarily disagreeing that Blandino is a big part of the problem and there is no way a man should be vp of officiating who was never an official, I am beginning to think Blandino will be thrown under the bus at the end of the season. Also, as I predicted elsewhere, there will be no suspensions for the members of the Steratore crew who botched the Bills-Pats game with the inadvertent whistle and depriving the Bills of their last chance for a Hail Mary and I think the Scott Green article did raise some eyebrows to what's going on and the officiating department was forced to lay low.
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