• gmb96@alien.topB
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    11 months ago

    Should? Yes. Will they? No. The official’s union holds all of the cards ever since the replacement ref fiasco.

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      11 months ago

      Exactly. This is why I laugh whenever I hear someone say how the league should do something about it. It’s not that they won’t. It’s that they can’t.

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        11 months ago

        I disagree, it is more likely they don’t care enough to change it. The current system makes more money directly and indirectly (gambling). The minuet, the net profits dip because of bad officiating they will change it overnight

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          11 months ago

          You’re ignoring the point being made here: what, concretely, do you do to improve officiating? You can’t just fire bad refs because the guys you replace them with are going to be worse.

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            11 months ago

            You could make them full time employees and compensate them based on how well they perform like most any other profession

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              11 months ago

              The refs don’t want that and the NFL doesn’t have the leverage to force them

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        11 months ago

        I think you are massively understating or just forgetting how awful the replacement refs were. As bad as things are now, it was at a whole other level. It was so bad that within a month of the season, the NFL gave them almost literally everything they wanted.