Now the NFL season feels like it has begun…..

I’d love to see some statistical breakdown on number and total yardage of penalties, by type, broken down between 2011, in comparison to say, 2001 and 1991.

It would give a true indication of how the dynamics of game officiating has changed over the years.

I will never forget the over officiating on the Tuck rule by these so called professional idiots. I feel bad for Charles Woodson having this happen again…

You mean the same Charles Woodson who illegally hit Brady to the head on that play although it was never called?

The Patriots should have got another 15 yards on that play.

After all the fining of players and coaches its nice to hear that refs, if they do a poor job, can be sent down to the “minors”. Its not a fine, but it will be intresting to see how they impose this.

As for this fluff piece, its so anti-union and transparently pro-NFL is gross.

Another article says Goodell deserves a raise after this debacle, this article says the NFLPA didn’t do enough to stop the lockout? Hilarious.

You’re argument is akin to saying a DIV III QB makes mistakes just like Tom Brady sometimes does, therefore it makes no difference if the DIV III QB is the QB of the Patriots.

Yes, the real refs make mistakes. But they’ve honed their skills and perception over years and years of officiating the game at its highest levels.

Real refs screw up questionable and vaguely defined verbiage in the rule book.

Replacement refs couldn’t spot the friggin’ ball correctly, or spot blatant PI. or spot basic false starts, or get in the middle of a scrum and pull guys off of each other, or, or, or ad nauseum…

Let’s start using our brains a little bit here!

Fact is – refs have been screwing up calls and costing teams games since the beginning of the NFL – the idea that its just the replacement officials is absurd.

Aaron Rodgers needs to stop running his mouth, he conveniently doesn’t blame himself or his offense for completely being shut down on Monday

Quite frankly, the NFL and the police forces in some places can be quite thankful that the Packers were the team, city and State that got screwed in the first place. There are quite a few locales that open gunfire might have been the result rather than the complaining and whining done by Packer Nation.

The NFL placed these guys in a no-win situation. They positioned them for failure and ridicule and that’s exactly what happened.

They should at least receive some gratitude from the league office.

I for one appreciate their efforts!

Ed Hochuli does not make worse mistakes than the replacements. He doesn’t even make AS BAD mistakes as the replacements. I’d love to see a shred of proof of this. Ed Hochuli has probably made as many bad calls in his career as the one official from the Green Bay/Seahawks game has in 3 games.

Because the replacement referees were the ones taking cheap shots at the players, hitting them in the head, ripping off parts of ears, and putting hot sauce on players to get them out of the game.

I can’t take comments like this from the NFLPA seriously when the members of the NFLPA are the ones who are responsible for a lot of the unsafe activity that happens on the field.

You forgot to add that he also makes mistakes just as bad as the replacement officals if not worse.