Why is Brees held to a higher standard than any other player?? Last I checked it was Jon Stinchcomb who was the saints NFLPA rep not Brees. Trying to create controversy out of nothing for Brees. Its petty.
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I guess you haven’t checked for a while. Jon Stinchcomb got cut before the 2011 regular season.

“I really don’t get it. What’s the gap between the league and the referees? 12 million over 7 years?”

You are right, you really don’t get it…

The difference is $16 mil per YEAR over 7 years – or $106,000,000.00.

You’re only $94,000,000.00 off…

And then there is the fact that the NFLRA is fighting the grading of officials.

If these guys (NFLRA refs) won’t police themselves (and they haven’t) – it only makes sense that their employer (the NFL) take steps to make sure that bad officials can be terminated.

I would guess that everyone of them even with fulltime jobs will feel the hit when that cash stops I am sure they have that money earmarked for one thing or another.

No matter what these guys do fulltime $60,000.00 not in the bank is a big hit.

Plus think of the businesses that are effected
Eye doctors are taking a hit as we know few of these refs can see.
Also the seeing dog and cane market is going to take a hit sale of the record 3 blind mice will fall off.

So this must be settled

Why is this the NFL’s issue? What about the NFLRA? Should part-time referees really make $150,000 a year on their 2nd jobs? And they’re balking at a transition from a pension plan to a 401(k) plan? Hey, 80% of American workers have already made that transition if they’re lucky enough to even have a 401(k). Media shills being the exception, the vast majority of fans side with the NFL on this issue. The part-timers should count their blessings that they make more during football season alone than 90% of Americans make all year. It’s time for them to come back to the negotaiting table and sign the NFL’s offer.

The types of errors and mistakes the replacements are making in pre-season would not be made by the regulars. The regulars make different types of mistakes on different types of calls. The replacements are blundering more basic fundamental calls.

Get the experienced regulars back on the field, didn’t we suffer enough last year with the player lock-out ?

Hopefully this thing gets settled but I’m thinking it will go a couple of weeks into the season. The minute someone gets screwed that owner will put his foot down and it will be over.

The NFL should put a drop dead date out there. If an agreement is not reached by that time, they’re fired and no longer eligible to ref NFL games. If they were to do this, they would have no problem getting the top rated college refs to accept these jobs. They won’t do this now because if they take the NFL jobs, they’ll lose their college gigs and once the regular officials come back, they’re all SOL.

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It’s not the players responsibility. There shouldn’t be some kind of union solidarity between the players and the officials. The NFL is responsible to call games properly. The handful of part time officials that are locked out aren’t the only peoplein the world that can call a game properly. That is just nonsense. The replacement officials will be just fine. There have been some absolutely horrible game-changing calls in the last few years by the locked out officials anyway, so it can’t be much worse.

Also… was that shot at Brady really called for?

Yeah, these guys (and gal) have some issues but at least they seem to be able to get out of the way and run 20 yards without getting winded.

The average age must’ve dropped 20 years and what they like in knowledge they make up for in spryness.

The money the NFL would lose from this is nothing compared to the disaster they’ll have on their hands the first time a replacement ref costs a team a game.

Sadly, it probably won’t happen until a popular team team loses a regular-season game because of a blown call.

If it happens to a team from New York, the real refs will be back on the job in fifteen minutes. The league office hates it when an angry mob shows up on their doorstep.

Let’s face it; If the regular officials, veterans of 20 some odd years of officiating games on the highest level weren’t regularly guilty of obvious, horrendous, errors (Coin flip in the Superbowl anyone?) people would probably care more.

This is why, in my opinion, being a ref should be a full time job. There are enough resources to make these guys NFL employees full time, and have a full stake in their professions. The off season can be used for preparing mentally and physically for the season.

There really is no argument that is valid as to why one group of men making obvious, blatant errors is that superior to another group of men making obvious, blatant errors. We see it all the time. Hits on the field that don’t draw flags, but draw fines. Hits on the field that draw flags but don’t draw fines. One thing Jerry Jones got right was that as long as it’s the same for everyone…Who cares? And it will be.

Officials aren’t going to stop hits before they happen. They aren’t going to stop penalties before they happen, seeing as how you could call penalties on nearly every play. The replacement officials will get better, just like every one of the regular officials got better with time, but they will never be perfect. Just like the regular officials.