The new, full-time referees will be held accountable for mistakes, like the rest of the workforce in America…that non-fumble call would be a “fireable offense.”

If not for the call at the end of the Arizona game…the G-men are at home watching…bad calls effect nearly every game, and somebody should be held accountable.

If the ref who made the holding call, pass interference, and H2H calls had to tell the home audience, then you would realize and be able to put a face to the refs who make the bad calls.

Im not saying the calls in the Pack game were correct, they werent they were awful, but as the old adage goes dont shoot the messenger. Leavy isnt the one making all of the calls. All of these refs suck. The reason is because they dont have an idea on what to call.

I believe during the off season ALL refs should have to sit down as a group, and review every single game. And on every single penalty they should have to write down what they would have called, then afterward total up the results, and see just how many ruled one way and how many the other way. In that way they would see as a whole where they stand. They would have a baseline on where to begin. From there they can come to an agreement on these calls such as H2H.

Ever notice when Mike Piererra comes on TV even he is wrong 50% of the time on what the ref on field is going to call? Its because none of them have ever sat down and watched enough film and graded each other. Each ref calls it his OWN WAY.

The fumble could have gone either way. Yes, to non-players, Jennings arm was being pulled away from his body before he was down, but he still had control of the ball with that hand until it looked like his hip hit the ground, so I can see why people think it was a bad call, and why the refs called it like they did.

Second, Giants fans are the last people who should be complaining about refs because without a slew of REALLY bad/missed calls during the regular season, the Giants are watching the playoffs at home.

Also he has a tendency to harp on the air about a possible miscue by a ref and then all of a sudden its being reviewed. That tells me that someone in the review booth is listening to the game and gets a cue from him to take another look or stop the action.

When a call doesn’t go his way he subtle suggest that there is an unfairness going on and the one team is getting screwed by the bad calls as if its a plan or something?

My issue is the refs know they have replay so they are tentative in their calls. The other game the ref was standing right on the goal line and the player clearly stepped on the line and instead of calling it a touchback he called it down at the one.
The referee stepped in and called for a review and it was obviously a touchback so why couldn’t the other ref, who was right on top of it not get it right.

A serious issue is every play has an infraction, so how much time is committed to gabbing about every plaY?

Getting it right is important, but standing around waiting for this tedious process has got to go.

Maybe a simple red/green/yellow light gadget to get the booth info to the field.
Green, AOK.
Red reverses,
Yellow, we need to talk.

iPhone could have a simple app for that.
Another sponsor too.

Gotta say I was so infuriated with that call, that even with Hakeem Nicks spectacular hail mary TD catch I didn’t even muster a celebration as I thought the refs were going to cook up a plan to prevent us winning in the 2nd half.

And don’t get me started on that Osi helmet to helmet penalty……..
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Whoa, Giants’ fans. Neither call had an affect on the outcome of the game.

In the 1st quarter there was an obvious helmet to helmet hit by a Giants’ db on Finley that wasn’t called, that could have given the Packers a first down. That wouldn’t have changed the outcome either. Giants just played better on Sunday.

As an aside, the Umenyiora roughing the passer was not as bad as the other calls. Umenyiora’s helmet does make contact with Rodgers’ helmet, and that is technically a penalty. It probably should not be, but it is. I have seen worse roughing the passer calls.

All of the other controversial calls were obvious mistakes that showed how bad the officiating was.

Then Roger, please resign!!

THE GAME WAS OVER AT THAT POINT WITH THE RIGHT CALL!!!!!

The NFL is flirting with losing a lot of fans over season-ending calls. I don’t spend thousands on season tix, merchandise, and all the other BS to watch my team almost get fraudulently beaten in the final tournament.

Kick-offs also need to be returned to the old distance and adopt the college rule for pass interference. There should never be a 50+ yard penalty.

And Bill Leavy should be banned from post-season games if not fired altogether.

Bill Leavy stinks….

Will it be perfect. No. But it will be consistent when hyou have a central NFL Office overseeing the entire replay system. THey have enough money to hire a committee of 10 experts.