on Monday about the series in the Kansas City. Cincinnati
game.
That Ron torbert and his crew.
Absolutely. Yeah. But you're messed up, right? They
butchered that series. Now
I got, I've gotten a ton of emails from people. Oh, you
know, that the Chiefs are the better team. They would have.
This is not about that.
It's not about who should win.
Who wasn't going to win anything like that. It is about
the fact. Fact, they made five mistakes in one series. They
forced
the Cincinnati Bengals on defense to play for more snaps
than they should have.
They forced the coach of the bangle, Zack, Taylor
to take a timeout, at one point during this.
They were just simply disorganized in Mike, I want to
ask, you
does that say anything larger about the,
the art of a She eating the profession of officiating. In
the NFL today, we'll just underscores the fact that
the NFL needs to devote more time and more resources
to creating the impression, they're doing everything
possible to get it right. There is a limit to how accurate
the calls are ever going to be. You're never going to be 100%,
but you can create the impression, you're doing
everything, right? And you've identified, a tangible era
area where
you can expect more and if they are full-time, they run through
these examples. They know, it's second nature, I like your take
on the idea that Sometimes, maybe, they think their safety
nets out there. Yeah, too many safety nets and the problem is
the safety nets, didn't activate yes,
they didn't activate. Nobody said Durant or Bert. Oh wait,
wait, no. The clock should not start on your signal. Just
the play clock, that was one of the mistakes. It was mistake number
two in the chain of events,
but everybody needs to be more dialed in the officials need to
be more aware. The backup needs to be aware the backup to
the backup needs to be aware, but that was just a strange series
of everything
fell apart, and And that's that's something with the NFL
needs to embrace it,
not shrug at it and say how do we take this example
and keep it from happening? I'm not I don't necessarily believe
that full-time officials would improve officiating very much,
certainly wouldn't make it worse perception but it is her
time thing and they wouldn't get that rule, right? If you're
in it all
year long, right away, you're going to wait with the clock
keeps going there, guys. Come on. This is this is month 11 of
this. Yeah, that's where. I feel like little nuances like
that. That it's entirely possible but I have now become
convinced
that you do need to make the officials full-time
in part because of the perception
but also in part and you know, Mike I've heard this for a long
time. Officiating is a collection of 1,000 little
things
and the little things that were messed up in that one
from the replay official up top. Not calling in Toronto or
Birds here. Hey, wait a second, wait a The last play was
an incompletion
the game clock doesn't start,
you know, when I blow my whistle, just the play clock
because it's coming after an incompletion,
and he should have corrected it right there. So
the replay official didn't help him
Walt Anderson in New York, didn't help him.
And by the way, the other thing I learned since I wrote this,
you know, that there's an alternate referee at this game
and I forget who it was. I was told it wasn't. I just forget,
but the alternate hreflang Referee has the ability
to talk to him. So like and this is why to me when I start
hearing all, you got to be got to have a sky. Judge got have
a sky judge.
I mean, how many more safety nets do you want for the guy?
You know, you've got the replay official upstairs.
You got the officiating Command Center in New York.
I suppose it wouldn't hurt to have the sky judge but come on.
Do your F and job. Well, and I look at it this way, we have
people talking to us all the time if I was going to throw. A
break and say, coming up next.
Dallas tight end. Dalton Schultz somebody would say no
no it's Mark Andrews. I mean it do it immediately people who
are in a position to help ya are in a position to help and
they do it.
I had an epiphany on full-time officials and I was already
convinced of it but you were telling a story on a Friday
edition of the show and you were remembering the time that
you were embedded with jeans territories crew. And you
mentioned, we didn't talk about it the time
because you were still in the middle of your story and we
didn't Circle back to it. Your anecdote about Dino paganel E.
Yeah, and how he's
Working and he's putting his kids to bed and he's trying to
carve out a single dad. He's trying to carve out an hour on
a Wednesday night between 10:00 and 11:00 when he just passes
out from exhaustion. Yeah to review film if you're
a full-time employee
yeah you don't have to just you're not in school that
exactly yeah, exactly it's what you do all the time. It's
tackle Focus, your professional Pursuits, 12 months out of
the year they don't want to pay for that. I think
we know, we know, they can be a little late. Well, I'm
sure they don't want to play. Let me just ask you this.
The highest-paid officials, the most veteran officials
the referees, make high to hundreds to 300 somewhere in that race,
whatever they make somewhere else. That's what you got to
buy out, whatever they make
in somewhere else. But but, but I think
most of those guys, and I asked
a couple of
the guys who've come over to the media side. I've asked him
how many officials would leave the business if they couldn't
do their full-time job, who's making so much money
at the think and
and they all said that they didn't, they thought one of
them said, they thought it'd be less than 10.
Another said they thought it would be around 10. There's 117
officials if you lose 10 and big deal. Yeah, so
I think that it probably is a good idea but the one thing
that I just dread is
it let's say they do it in 2024.
Okay
then in 2024 season, everybody's going To say, oh my
God, the officiating still stinks.
How in the world, you get full-time officials?
How can they be making these mistakes?
Because it's hard to officiate a football game. That's why.
But, at least if we have full-time officials,
those of us who comment on the mistakes
will no longer be able to say. Well, if they were full-time
officials, they would have made that mistake. So, be another
reason for it. I still think it will improve. Its never gonna
be 100%. Yeah, right.
Right.
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