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Post by Deleted on Nov 19, 2010 13:02:36 GMT -5
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Post by FredFan7 on Nov 19, 2010 13:13:42 GMT -5
Mike Periera has done more to bring officiating to the masses than anyone on the planet. Only Markbreit with his popular books can even come close.
Good move by FOX! I just hope that he can comment on Ron Winter's Super Bowl work!
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Post by cj on Nov 19, 2010 13:35:32 GMT -5
Periera was a breath of fresh air after years of sweeping everything under the table and hiding from the public when a bad call was made (remember Jerry Seeman and before him the years of Art McNally)....they only communicated with the teams and gave them an apology but if the teams ever said they had received an apology, they were fined big time.
Periera has continued that into his role with Fox Sports. It's more than just knowing the rules. It's techniques. It's positioning. It's explaining why the rule is what it is.
As I said in the other thread, I know he has only been on the job for a couple of months, but I don't sense the same openess coming from the new guy and I used the specific example of what happened this past weekend. On official review, it was just one play, the catch/no catch which has been beaten to death. What about commenting on the obvious opi in the Atlanta-Baltimore game. It was a blatantly missed call. What happened there (Periera did touch on it in his chat for the week the difficulty a deep official has with mutiple receivers).....and then there was the clearly uncatchable ball on the critical dpi call in the Ran-Niner game. Okay the second one is a pure judgment call and I can perhaps understand a desire not to question somebody's judgment. But the first one was blatant.
Now the only ones who can do the job Periera is doing might be a former referee...how about Jerry Markbreit? He wrote a cdolumn for a while in a Chicago newspaper; I don't know if he's still doing so but he has a certain degree of camera presence. But even then, he's been away from the game for a while and perhaps officiating techniques have changed just like while Periera is only one year away, as he himself said, changes are being made and perhaps in four or five years, the game will be officiated completely differently and his views might not hold as much water.
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Post by melkaman8200 on Nov 21, 2010 12:43:06 GMT -5
I think Carl Johnson will improve his TV appearances. Johnson has to deal with two big things at once, whereas MP was already experienced as the head of officiating when he took the TV role. They should have worked one year together like they originally planned.
At any rate, this might be an opportunity for retired officials. I think that the personal experiences of Ron Winter, Ed Hochuli, and Jeff Triplette...a college instructor, a lawyer, and a military commander, respectively, would make them best suited for this role. Personally, I was pulling for Triplette to get the VP role, but that's the way it goes, I guess.
In a related note, cj brings up a good point: what ever happened to Markbreit's column? It ended abruptly with no explanaiton. He ended for the year like he usually did, and just never came back. Maybe the NFL put the brakes on it because he still works with them (geez, Jerry...take a break and enjoy your retirement! I hope I'm still going that strong when I'm 75.)
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Post by becky10 on Nov 21, 2010 13:13:55 GMT -5
I think Carl Johnson will improve his TV appearances. Johnson has to deal with two big things at once, whereas MP was already experienced as the head of officiating when he took the TV role. They should have worked one year together like they originally planned. At any rate, this might be an opportunity for retired officials. I think that the personal experiences of Ron Winter, Ed Hochuli, and Jeff Triplette...a college instructor, a lawyer, and a military commander, respectively, would make them best suited for this role. Personally, I was pulling for Triplette to get the VP role, but that's the way it goes, I guess. Hi melkaman8200, I know for a fact that the NFL had budget cuts last yr and the plan was to bring in someone to mirror Mike Pereira.... So no funds last yr to do this... Becky
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Post by FredFan7 on Nov 21, 2010 16:35:14 GMT -5
I think Carl Johnson will improve his TV appearances. Johnson has to deal with two big things at once, whereas MP was already experienced as the head of officiating when he took the TV role. They should have worked one year together like they originally planned. At any rate, this might be an opportunity for retired officials. I think that the personal experiences of Ron Winter, Ed Hochuli, and Jeff Triplette...a college instructor, a lawyer, and a military commander, respectively, would make them best suited for this role. Personally, I was pulling for Triplette to get the VP role, but that's the way it goes, I guess. In a related note, cj brings up a good point: what ever happened to Markbreit's column? It ended abruptly with no explanaiton. He ended for the year like he usually did, and just never came back. Maybe the NFL put the brakes on it because he still works with them (geez, Jerry...take a break and enjoy your retirement! I hope I'm still going that strong when I'm 75.) I was pulling for Triplette too, but I have high hopes for Carl Johnson. This is just speculation but many of the of the rules questions in the Markbreit column started to repeat themselves over the years and I think either Markbreit got tired of it, the Tribune didn't want to pay him anymore, or both.....
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