The NFL isn’t the public sector, paying people full-time for part-time work value. The last thing I want to see is referees mingling with fans.
its a garbage product if the nfl onyl employs refs for 5 months a year.
most fans are not happy with the refs and this can be fixed
The refs in the NFL aren’t any worse than the refs in other sports. Ask fans what they think about MLB or NHL refs.
there are no penalties to call in baseball. there are not many judgement plays and most of them get reviewed. hockey refs are very good in general.
There’s a lot that a full-time ref can do. Training training training. Run simulations of tricky calls is a huge one. They can do case studies of past calls that were wrong and then replay them. They can train their observations to make better decisions more quickly. This week-end warrior ref shiite is garbage and has more consequences when compared to other sports. There are fewer games and the calls made and not made impact the whole season. Case-in-point, replacement refs in Seattle in 2012. That cost Green Bay a home playoff game. Another example: last Sunday in Dallas. Another example: Patriots vs. Raiders in AFC championship game in which the tuck rule is born. Complete B.S.
Instant replay was a huge upgrade, now it’s time to take the next step. This is a multi-billion dollar industry for C’s sake.
Every single pitch thrown is a judgment call and none of them get reviewed.
bvesides that there are no judgement plays. baseball can review almost anything
edit: maybe check swing also
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Hoping to see another Brady vs Manning battle, maybe for the last time.
The Green Bay Dallas game has the look of a great one. Every point that can be made as to why one side should win could also be made for the other.
· Green Bay undefeated at home, Dallas undefeated on the road.
· Rodgers is the best quarterback at home this season with 25 TDs and 0 Ints, a completion percentage of 67.1%, and a rating of 133.2. Romo is the best road QB with 20 TDs and 2 INTs, 70.6% percentage, and a rating of 121.8.
· Packers defense improved over the last half of the season. Cowboys have one of the most improved defenses this year and lead the league takeaways.
· Rodgers knows what to do in the cold. Romo grew up in Wisconsin and played in college at at Eastern Illinois.
· Eddie Lacy’s performance really improved in the second half of the season. Murray lead the league in rushing and it wasn’t really even close.
It really has the look of a great matchup. Watch it end up being a blow out.
It really isn’t a judgment call.
Either the ball traveling at 95 mph touched some part of the right pentagonal prism over home plate defined by the upper boundary of the horizontal line at the midpoint between the top of the batter’s shoulders and the top of the uniform pants, the lower boundary of the line at the hollow beneath the kneecap, and the front, back and side boundaries defined by home plate… or it didn’t.
It really is asinine that humans are still calling balls and strikes. The best you can say about a good ump is that he’s consistent which basically means he was consistently inaccurate.
You can’t tell me that if the game were invented today that we would have humans calling balls and strikes. I’m all for having human interaction in the game but the only humans involved in that sequence should be pitcher, batter, and catcher. That’s it.
There also shouldn’t be any human judgement in the checked swing. Either was checked or it wasn’t.
FTFY.
Great analysis. I’m super psyched for the game.
Fixed!
^Moreover, Green Bay was 1st in the NFL on PPG, PPG differential, and turnover differential…at home.
Dallas was 1st in the NFL on PPG, PPG differential, and TO differential…on the road.
Is there a logical explanation for a team being good on the road? It would make sense for a team to be good at home, but not so much on the road. If I had time I’d take a look at Dallas’s road games - did they just get lucky with an easy road schedule? Let’s not forget, the sample size here is relatively small (8 games), with 3 of those against crappy division opponents…
Dallas beat Seattle and Philly on the road. Those would be the good teams.
The others include the Titans (suck), the Rams (mediocre–got better at the end of the year), Jaguars (suck), Bears (kinda suck–they’ve still got a lot of talent), Giants (kinda suck) and Washington (suck).
Maybe there’s something about the field in Dallas that negatively affects Romo.
You could make the case for there being less distractions on the road than at home. I know the Spurs always seem to get their season going during their rodeo road trip.
5 teams have been undefeated on the road since the 16 game season started, and all but one made it to the SB. The 49ers lost to the NYG in the 1990 NFC Championship.
