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Post by FredFan7 on Jan 25, 2019 13:22:14 GMT -5
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Post by tj888 on Jan 27, 2019 14:04:56 GMT -5
Any suspension or fine will be at the behest of the NFL soley for PR purposes. How will suspending the officials help them become better officials? What good does this accomplish? Does it undo their error? Or, will it make then officiate scared? Will it make other officials officiate scared? These aren't officials who barely hanging on by the skin of their teeth. These are Tier I officials. Think of it this way. Say there's the number one sales executive 10-years running at billion dollar ACME Mega company. He's made the company a hundred million dollars in revenue in the past 10 years. He has the chance to land a major account for nine figures. But he wrote down the wrong day for the deadline to submit proposals. He missed the chance for his company to land a major client. This guy is sick. He's harangued by his bosses. He's ostracized by his co-workers. Industry insiders hoot on Acme's major screw up. Should the company take away his other accounts? Should they ban him from trying to land new clients and just maintain the ones he has? Should they fire him and the potential he has to be a long-term asset? Or, do they look at his record, realize this screw-up is an outlier, dust him off, have him submit an action plan on how he won't make the same mistake again, and get him get back to doing what he does best? He'll have work hard to prove himself to his bosses, his clients and himself, but he will be motivated by redemption. Now, if his production starts to wane and he commits further errors, then it'll be time to make a change. This is the kind of attitude that officials should not have. These officials are employees who are paid handsomely to do a job. Those officials in the NFC Championship game did NOT do their jobs. In any other business, if you don't do the job required of you and someone else suffers, there will be consequences. Your incredibly LAME comparison between a sales employee show the HORRENDOUS attitude of some people in this site that officials can make mistakes and we should just forgive them for any mistake they make. Well not if the mistake is extremely obvious and cost a team a chance to go to the Super Bowl. |
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Post by FredFan7 on Jan 27, 2019 16:10:46 GMT -5
Any suspension or fine will be at the behest of the NFL soley for PR purposes. How will suspending the officials help them become better officials? What good does this accomplish? Does it undo their error? Or, will it make then officiate scared? Will it make other officials officiate scared? These aren't officials who barely hanging on by the skin of their teeth. These are Tier I officials. Think of it this way. Say there's the number one sales executive 10-years running at billion dollar ACME Mega company. He's made the company a hundred million dollars in revenue in the past 10 years. He has the chance to land a major account for nine figures. But he wrote down the wrong day for the deadline to submit proposals. He missed the chance for his company to land a major client. This guy is sick. He's harangued by his bosses. He's ostracized by his co-workers. Industry insiders hoot on Acme's major screw up. Should the company take away his other accounts? Should they ban him from trying to land new clients and just maintain the ones he has? Should they fire him and the potential he has to be a long-term asset? Or, do they look at his record, realize this screw-up is an outlier, dust him off, have him submit an action plan on how he won't make the same mistake again, and get him get back to doing what he does best? He'll have work hard to prove himself to his bosses, his clients and himself, but he will be motivated by redemption. Now, if his production starts to wane and he commits further errors, then it'll be time to make a change. This is the kind of attitude that officials should not have. These officials are employees who are paid handsomely to do a job. Those officials in the NFC Championship game did NOT do their jobs. In any other business, if you don't do the job required of you and someone else suffers, there will be consequences. Your incredibly LAME comparison between a sales employee show the HORRENDOUS attitude of some people in this site that officials can make mistakes and we should just forgive them for any mistake they make. Well not if the mistake is extremely obvious and cost a team a chance to go to the Super Bowl. |
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Post by frugaldeac on Mar 26, 2019 10:25:35 GMT -5
Back again, Sgt. Hulka and friends. Hope you've had a good off season so far.
I was wondering what, if anything, had happened to the officials that screwed up the NFC Championship game. The one I believe who was at most fault is named Gary Cavaletto (according to this forum). From what I understand, he's the one who was right there in perfect position looking at the obvious PI and Helmet to Helmet contact by the Rams DB and called NEITHER!
How has the league dealt with Mr Cavaletto regarding this call?
1. Fired him for gross incompetence? (probably not)
2. Suspended him from future NFL postseason games? (maybe but not likely)
3. Suspended from 1 NFL regular season game? (possibly but the union will freak)
4. Contract extended with a hefty pay raise because he's human and he did his best. (there you go)
In case you didn't catch it, the remarks in the parentheses above are what Sgt. FredFan Hulka above and his followers probably think would happen.
Look I know officiating is hard. I've done a little bit of it myself and I had to referee a lot of scrimmages when I coached high school basketball in the 80's and 90's. But one thing has always been expected in my opinion. OFFICIALS ARE ALWAYS EXPECTED TO GET THE OBVIOUS CALL(S) RIGHT! If not, they should NEITHER be in the gym NOR on the field!
Have a great day,
frugaldeac
PS Even though I am frugal, money is running short and donations are accepted. PM me
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