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Arkaign on 04 December 2015
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Chris Hu said:
Arkaign said:
Yeah the refs have been more crappy than usual this year. I've seen a number of games where the outcome was either directly decided by a bad call, or close enough to essentially gift the game to a team.

We've got to be getting hopefully closer to the point where ANY play can be challenged and reviewed, but still limited in number so it doesn't make the game any longer on average.

And speaking of rules, hopefully we're closer to fixing the 'catch' mess. This rant is pretty good :

http://www.sbnation.com/nfl/2015/12/3/9837960/nfl-catch-rule-fix-it-or-forget-it-roger-goodell-referees-committee

Well the refs only played a minor role in the Lions losing last nights game.  If they actually played some defense down the strech and the special teams didn't cough up the ball they would have easily won by at least 7 points.  Plus the offense could have played better also there where a bunch of passed that should have been caught instead of ending up as incompletions. 

Absolutely agreed. Any team should be prepared to have to play through bad and/or missed calls in any and every game.

Nevertheless, it DOES still suck to see the refs so often botch things. It just makes for a lesser product.

It's been bad enough this year that I think the league is finally considering substantive changes :

http://www.scout.com/nfl/story/1615050-goodell-considers-changes-to-nfl-officiating