How can the NFL solve its officiating crisis?

Yahoo Sports’ Jason Fitz, Charles Robinson and Jori Epstein discuss how the league should approach the rising criticism of referees across the game and what has brought the increased level of scrutiny upon officials. Hear the full conversation on “Inside Coverage” – part of the “Zero Blitz” podcast – and subscribe on Apple Podcasts, Spotify or wherever you listen.

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JASON FITZ: We know that refs are graded. And we know that refs are– their percentage of calls that they make are given to the coaching staffs in advance so they know how to prep for, hey, this crew calls a lot of holdings, et cetera. Couldn’t the league simply give us transparency? Like, we’ve learned to accept what a good or a bad completion percentage is. Why not give us what the grades are for these crews when they start the game so that I know, hey, this is a B-minus crew on this game that is called accurately 87% of their calls, which is pretty good? We would then have at least have knowledge of what we’re looking at.

Like, we walk in every week being asked to give benefit of the doubt to officiating crews, when we live in a society that’s more skeptical than ever. Nobody believes anybody. Nobody trusts anything. And we just presume that every ref is incompetent. Like, if we thought every quarterback had to complete 100% of their passes, every quarterback would suck. We know now that that’s not the standard. Why not at least open up the information the officials have so that the world can start to understand better what officials are good or bad?

JORI EPSTEIN: I think because they are implementing a system with human error that they know has human error but they don’t want to out any human for that error, they end up just, like, having all of this workaround with the weird videos, with the pool reports. Another thing that you could do if you want accountability, I don’t think that the grades being out there is particularly helpful. Also, for family, like,…

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Publish date : 2024-01-03 23:16:47

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