Comments on: Former Big 10 and Arena League ref heads replacement crew

By: mrf47

mrf47 — Mon, 06 Aug 2012 03:11:24 +0000

The replacement refs have been fine. We should remember that this is a children’s game played by men and that it’s not overly complicated.

By: mojosmagic

mojosmagic — Mon, 06 Aug 2012 00:47:00 +0000

Goodell talks about player safety and has replacement refs out there? The owners are making money hand over fist and they can’t pay these guys what amounts to chump change? Talk about hypocrisy.

By: JakeDSnake

JakeDSnake — Sun, 05 Aug 2012 23:10:10 +0000

How do they protect the players?
Does throwing a flag AFTER a play on which a player is injured heal the player? And by missing the call the player remains injured?
You are not talking about the new concussion procedures, as those involve off-field officials.
Even if officials, replacement or otherwise, continue to miss repetitive calls, will that change the players’ blocking or tackling form? If that’s true, you can take money from position coaches, who clearly wouldn’t be doing their jobs, and give it to the officials who have a greater impact on the players’ correct practice.
Or are you saying that players are so stupid that they will intentionally injure opponents on the field if they think they won’t get a yardage penalty, moronically forgetting the league review of game tapes and the monetary and suspension fines that go with those reviews?

By: panamon

panamon — Sun, 05 Aug 2012 22:34:31 +0000

They have doctors and a person up from the league who aren’t replacements and can focus a lot more on
“protecting and monitoring” the best players in the world (I guess they watch the bad ones too, but they don’t seem as important to PFT). In case you forgot the refs did very little of that until the middle of last season, their main job is to manage the game and watch for penalties. As far as the monitoring I’m comfortable the league has taught them (the basics which is all they really need to know, injury/concussion info) just as much as they taught the refs when they put the policy in during the season.