Comments on: Charles Woodson sees “a lot of bad officiating”

By: chi01town

chi01town — Tue, 28 Aug 2012 12:15:51 +0000

Thats Woodson making up excuses
before the season starts cause he knows the packers are WEAK an they have a hard schedule right from the start

By: djohnson11882

djohnson11882 — Mon, 27 Aug 2012 21:09:05 +0000

I haven’t seen them screw up a coin toss yet, so I have no complaints!

By: datageek94

datageek94 — Mon, 27 Aug 2012 18:45:15 +0000

The worst trend in the NFL over the past 18 months? Don’t bother to work things out, go after LEVERAGE.

By: axespray

axespray — Mon, 27 Aug 2012 17:41:28 +0000

Guys mentioning Woodson mugging WRs must be playing madden or something…. Woodson usually spends his time in Zone near the box where he’s allowed to jump passes and blitz the Qb… He’s basically a super athletic Linebacker at this point.

By: csilojohnson

csilojohnson — Mon, 27 Aug 2012 16:50:30 +0000

Regular refs are worse on my oppinion. May not miss as many calls, but they MISS A LOT, and have NO excuse. They make 2000$ an hour to watch a game. Goodell should lower thier pay. You get a raise when you do your job correctly, not because someone could be worse.

By: farmmbig

farmmbig — Mon, 27 Aug 2012 16:43:48 +0000

I see no difference between the replacement officials and the original guys—- Calls are missed by all of them,

Difference: The media isn’t afraid to be hyper-critical of the replacement guys. If they treated the regular officials the same way, the credibility of the game would be in jeopardy.

It is what it is.

By: lambeaurules

lambeaurules — Mon, 27 Aug 2012 16:30:47 +0000

Nick Perry got an unsportsmanlike penalty for flexing after a sac! Just shows the replacements suck! They have made horrible calls like this all preseason. they better get it straight when the regular season kicks off or we are all in for a frustrating year!

By: ty46

ty46 — Mon, 27 Aug 2012 16:18:16 +0000

I saw a lot of bad officiating too. Every time Charles Woodson wasn’t called for PI and illegal contact.

By: mnpacker

mnpacker — Mon, 27 Aug 2012 16:12:28 +0000

“oh no, he said something about the refs… wait i can remember this one time there was a bad call”
C’mon now. yes the real refs made some big mistakes, but that’s going to be nothing compared to the scabs this season

By: bleedgreen11

bleedgreen11 — Mon, 27 Aug 2012 16:12:18 +0000

I’m honestly sick and tired of hearing about the replacement refs. They are doing the best that they can do. It is not THEIR fault that they are in this situation. Most of them never reffed the NFL, CFL, AFL, whateverFL, some probably haven’t even reffed in college.

It’s like the regular officials were so perfect and never made mistakes…. People just need something to complain about.

By: seandconner

seandconner — Mon, 27 Aug 2012 16:08:55 +0000

Look. Are the replacement refs perfect? Hell no. But are the real refs perfect? Hell no. Calls are gonna be missed. Bad calls are gonna be made regardless of who is officiating the games. To think that this is only what the 3rd game they have officiated. Now I am not saying that they are better than the other officials and I am sure there will be calls that end up detrimental to the game but enough is enough already. People piss and moan when the real refs screw up a game and people piss and moan when the replacement refs screw up a game.

By: manwhorzzz

manwhorzzz — Mon, 27 Aug 2012 15:52:38 +0000

i dont think they are that bad. and the NFL has a ton of leverage over the locked out refs.

in watching all the preseason games (1-2 quarters till the starters come out) i dont even notice a difference? unless one the the announcers mention it which happens every 5min for some reason.

By: radrntn

radrntn — Mon, 27 Aug 2012 15:37:40 +0000

yep charles woodson wants walt coleman back…lmao

By: rpiotr01

rpiotr01 — Mon, 27 Aug 2012 15:07:01 +0000

Players and coaches have no confidence and no faith in replacement refs. That’s a problem. League needs to address this and stop burying their head in the sand.

By: cuse6468

cuse6468 — Mon, 27 Aug 2012 15:05:19 +0000

Big deal. Fantasy is around the corner. Who cares

By: packerbadger

packerbadger — Mon, 27 Aug 2012 14:15:23 +0000

The Refereelers are nervous. Replacement refs might not help them win games like the “real refs” did. Will hurt them even worse if they somehow make it back to the Super Bowl where the refs helped them in their last two Super Bowl “wins”.

By: joekappedyourass

joekappedyourass — Mon, 27 Aug 2012 13:54:45 +0000

Two things:

First off, read the reactions to this article opposed to the article on Kluwe’s comments about the officiating. The tone in the comments is considerably different. I guess punters dont have eyes and a brain…

Secondly, I agree with both Woodson and Kluwe. I truly do not understand the take “well the regular officials make mistakes too” – - No one is saying they dont. By that logic we could have ANYONE officiate. Ya they will make mistakes. “But the replacement officials make mistakes too” Errors in officiating are inherent, they are human. It’s the type and frequency of the replacement officials mistakes that are generating these comments from players

By: dlk81

dlk81 — Mon, 27 Aug 2012 13:46:35 +0000

He was a Raider, although years ago he should be used to bad officiating!

By: shackdelrio

shackdelrio — Mon, 27 Aug 2012 13:37:25 +0000

Funny how in this battle between the league and the officials, it seems the guys catching the most flak are the replacement officials. Bizarre.

By: norseyapper

norseyapper — Mon, 27 Aug 2012 13:30:40 +0000

When the regular officials were out there we also griped about “seeing a lot of bad officiating out there.” These guys are definitely worse.

In preseason there have been hundreds of camera shots of head coaches shaking their heads and grimacing over ridiculous calls. Can you imagine what these same coaches are going to do when the games count and their jobs are on the line?

By: nflfollower

nflfollower — Mon, 27 Aug 2012 13:07:08 +0000

He must have just opened his eyes this fall.

By: somuchintheworld

somuchintheworld — Mon, 27 Aug 2012 12:53:16 +0000

Gooddell and the rest of the NFL should never complain about the integrity of the game again.

By: chuckxx

chuckxx — Mon, 27 Aug 2012 12:49:31 +0000

Glad to finally hear one of the star NFL players finally comment on this topic. Take a look at the 2 late hits Tamba Hali got called for on Russell Wilson of the Seahawks. What an absolute joke. He just barely grazed Wilson and got flagged twice for a late hit. Disgusting calls by the refs.

By: zaggs

zaggs — Mon, 27 Aug 2012 12:46:38 +0000

Thats rich considering last year his team benefited twice from atrociously called games against the Giants.

By: upyoursnfu

upyoursnfu — Mon, 27 Aug 2012 12:43:27 +0000

His eyes must be better than Emperor Goodell’s.

By: cursedvikingfan

cursedvikingfan — Mon, 27 Aug 2012 12:34:49 +0000

I guess I’m not quite sure what he is talking about. Doesn’t he get away with pass interference on every down as it is?

By: rmc1995

rmc1995 — Mon, 27 Aug 2012 12:34:35 +0000

This is something coming from a guy who wasn’t thrown out of a game after landing a punch to a Saint’s midsection.

By: kuta82

kuta82 — Mon, 27 Aug 2012 12:28:01 +0000

The regular Refs get $8k per game..I guess that’s not enough for them, so I guess whenever the league decides to pay them a lil more we shall see them return,otherwise fans, be prepared to see the replacements get more time..

By: vincentbojackson

vincentbojackson — Mon, 27 Aug 2012 12:24:55 +0000

Bad officiating didn’t begin this year. The regular officials miss huge calls every week. The difference is they’re not under the microscope like these guys.

When the regular guys come back I expect them to never miss a call again after all the piling on they’re doing.

By: richndc

richndc — Mon, 27 Aug 2012 11:54:44 +0000

Yeah, it’s easy to sit here and judge all this bad officiating….no….I mean it’s easy, they suck.