In Sunday's Redskins-Cowboys game, Washington quarterback Jason Campbell rolled out and threw a pass along the sidelines that the officials on the field ruled came after he had already stepped out of bounds.
After a Redskins delay of game penalty, the referee reviewed the previous play and overturned it, saying that Campbell had not, in fact, stepped out of bounds before passing.
Now NFL VP of Officiating Mike Pereira says the play never should have been reviewed in the first place. The play ended when Campbell was ruled out of bounds, and nothing that happened afterward could be reviewed.
"We really reviewed and reversed a play that wasn't even reviewable," Pereira says in a video at NFL.com.
For the Cowboys, it's the second consecutive game with the referee wrongly applying the replay rule. The week before the Redskins game, the Cowboys played the Packers, and referee Jeff Triplette failed to penalize the Packers for taking a challenge they weren't entitled to take.
Cowboys coach Wade Phillips says Pereira talked to him and told him he's not pleased that his officials don't know the rules.
"Obviously he's upset," Phillips said of Pereira, per the Dallas Morning News. "When it's holding or pass interference or those things there can be mistakes in there certainly and we see them week to week. But there shouldn't be any rules that they miss and I think that's what Mike was upset about. It probably did hurt us some in the Green Bay game and could have in this ballgame."
As the Cowboys prepare to face the Raiders this afternoon, maybe we just all need to hope there aren't any replay reviews at all.
NFL acknowledges another botched replay
Posted by Michael David Smith on November 26, 2009 12:32 PM ET
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Yeah, officiating is horrible this year.
The refs:
can't count (4 TOs in one half, 3 challenges)
don't know the rules
don't enforce obvious penalties
review plays they can't
don't review plays they should
Is the rule set too complex? Maybe they need to dumb them down.
seems like pereira is talking about another referee F-up every week at this point. i mean, i know the refs are blind, but what we're learning now is that they're stupid too.
It seems like not just the ref that didn't know the rule, the replay assistant stopped the game and buzzed down to call for the review??
This suggests there are too many rules, maybe??
Maybe it's a ploy by the refs to get promoted to full time NFL employees.. 'cuz you know, it's just so hard to keep track of all these rules as a part-timer.
I commented on this when it happened, it was a disgrace they took so long to figure it out....Like 10 minutes, and now they say it was a mistake?....Too Funny....I guess when you have refs, and the job is a part time gig, you expect it to resemble a pick up game in the back yard....
odd that the officiating has been pretty bad in college football this year as well
This is Tool's responsibility, and he should shoulder the blame. Pereira should be fired mid-season.
I know I've said this over and over, but I think it says something about the marketability of a product when the people in charge of enforcing the rules can't even get them straight on a weekly basis.
I don't think anything will happen until there's a super obviously wrong call in the Super Bowl that costs one team a victory.
just review every play. let the fans vote on it like american idol.
the steelers fans would love it. they are always glued to the tee vee.
Part of the problem is that when a ref makes a mistake instead of just admitting this. The NFL just makes excuses on why they ruled correctly and the rules just get more confusing i.e. the Tuck rule, going to the ground on a completetion and reviewing an out of bounds call.
Part time employees are acting like.... part time employees.
Get a full time referee staff already.
This is what the replay system gives us. I've never been a fan of it. I'd be pleased as hell if they just junked that entire system. Bad calls will be made. Live with it.
lets just hope they dont have any punting "redos" either.
but yea, the officiating has been pretty bad this year. seems like every game i watch there are crucial calls that were missed....for example when louis murphy (i believe it was him) was going for a deep pass, was blanketed by leon hall who was going for the ball, murphy tackled him yet the PI call went on leon. call shoulda went on murphy, and if they were both going for the ball there should have been no call period.
notice how EVERY single week mike pereira is baling out his refs on some sort of bullshit call? like its a joke how much he has to validate his refs questionable calls with some unheard of section in the codex.
they need to get rid of this 'if the whistle blows, it cant be reviewed' policy (see E. Hochuli, 2008) that CHANGES THE OUTCOME OF GAMES. refs shouldnt be the ones determining games with a botched call. put more refs on the field or put in more replay leniency.
"Maybe it's a ploy by the refs to get promoted to full time NFL employees.. 'cuz you know, it's just so hard to keep track of all these rules as a part-timer."
If you cannot keep track of the rules as a part timer, I damn sure don't want to hire you as a full timer. So if it is a ploy, Ploy fail.
But not only did they go back and review a play that should not have been reviewed, they took the delay of game penalty away from the skins, like they never committed it and gave them back the yardage they lost because of it. But thankfully their kicker missed the FG anyway. Good ol' suisham.
Yes they get 100's of calls wrong each year we all know that. Since we do know that why aren't there higher standards? They should have to pass tests every year on the rule book and maybe put into game sims where they are tested on some freak scenarios.
They are calling professional games where players get paid millions of dollars. So if your a tub of lard, wearing coke bottles over your eyes or your a fossil I don't believe you should be on that field calling a game. They should be in shape and athletic. Please get a better set of standards/job requirements.
I actually think Pereira is the one F-ing up here. Replay can be used for runners going out of bounds and for QB pass or fumble and QB pass over the line. Pereira explanation is also wrong saying that the pass somehow comes AFTER going out of bounds which was not in question. The question is the pass coming BEFORE going out of bounds. Hence would be relevant. No one was arguing the pass was completed. Pereira is trying to cover up his screw up from weeks earlier with a play by Eli Manning that Pereira obviously personally vouched for.
I'd say the refs and the head of refs needs to go.
His explanation makes no sense. The pass happened before he went out of bounds, so it happened before the play was over. That means the play was challengable and Pereira is retarded.
And tho I hate to defend the deadskins..I will here. In their game against Atlanta, Laron Pansy was called for a late hit on Matt Ryan as he went out of bounds. Laron hit him before his foot even touched down out of bounds. Laron actually hardly hits anyone so I think it's sade when he is called for a 15 yarder that was actually a clean legit hit.
Raider fans have known this all along now that other teams are getting screwed it's ok for them to whine. But not ok when Raider fans complain. You hypocrites!