'It will never be perfect,' NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell said, in part, about the league's officiating. 'But the reality is that our officials are held to an incredibly high standard and I think they need it.' 'Will we try to get better? You betcha.'
Goodell tried to clear up one of the suspect sequences from the AFC game, insisting that there was no communication from the NFL’s command center in New York that suggested the presumably stopped third-down play in the fourth quarter be replayed.because the play-clock hadn’t been properly reset.
“That was stopped appropriately because the clock was running, by an official on the field,” Goodell said. “That happens frequently in our game. That’s not an unusual thing to have that happen.”He suggests that the scrutiny, though, has intensified because of technology that includes hi-definition television.
“It will never be perfect,” Goodell said. “We all have to realize the quality of our broadcasts, you’ve never been able to see the kinds of things you can see today. You see it in ‘Super Slo-Mo,’ you see it where you can actually stop it. Sometimes, that distorts a call potentially, but the reality is that our officials are held to an incredibly high standard and I think they need it.
star Aaron Rodgers recently, which contended that the NFL has lost too many talented officials to network television jobs. Fox Sports lured two former officiating directors, Mike Pereira and Dean Blandino; CBS hired former referee Gene Steratore and ESPN uses former referee John Parry for Monday night games.
While Goodell argued that there is no significant talent drain at work, Rodgers’ larger point, which has been raised in previous years, is that the NFL seemingly under-values the impact of top officials – and the top administrators. The theory is that with better pay from the NFL, they won’t leave.One thing for certain: The crew headed by
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