If anyone wants to say the NFL isn't rigged, please re-watch that game

[Warcodered]

I mean aren't they? I swear someone posts which ref crew we have each week.

[Bangarang]

Nobody is hiding who they are. It’s announced which crews are working the games. 
 

Take your meds and go to sleep. Sounds like you’re in a really dark place right now. 

[CorkScrewHill]

 

 

 

Edited December 13, 2021 by CorkScrewHill

[Nextmanup]

All officiating teams and performances are reviewed by the league and graded, in an effort to keep quality up.

 

Only the best crews get to work playoff games, and the Super Bowl is officiated by the "best" officials, in theory.

If an official was consistently really poorly graded, I would like to think he would not be asked back to continue working.

 

 

[Jeffbigalls]

If bills won nobody would be saying anything about officiating. 

[CorkScrewHill]

The refs had an easier time this week .. didn't have to question which ways to call it as New England, Pittsburgh, and Dallas were not playing the Bucs

 

 

Just now, Jeffbigalls said:

If bills won nobody would be saying anything about officiating. 

Yes .. yes we would .. it was egregious.

[Nextmanup]

1 minute ago, Jeffbigalls said:

If bills won nobody would be saying anything about officiating. 

Actually, I think people would!

 

Officiating is discussed here constantly, win, lose, or draw, and there is always a certain faction of fans that believe the Bills are specifically targeted as part of a conspiracy.

 

Then you have the theories about games being rigged by the NFL to promote certain Super Bowl matchups, etc.

 

 

[Jeffbigalls]

1 minute ago, CorkScrewHill said:

The refs had an easier time this week .. didn't have to question which ways to call it as New England, Pittsburgh, and Dallas were not playing the Bucs

 

 

Yes .. yes we would .. it was egregious.

At the end of the day you didn't lose because of the refs,  you lost because you didn't.make enough plays. You had a chance to go down and win in over time and it didn't happen.  Just remember the officials on the field don't have the beauty of the replays shown on tv, they see what they see, call what they call.

[Hapless Bills Fan]

The refs for each game are available to the public.   It’s not hard to find.

For example, right now on NFL.com, for each week and each game, you can open a .pdf file which contains the names of all the officials.

 

https://nflcdns.nfl.com/liveupdate/gamecenter/58708/TB_Gamebook.pdf

 

It’s not a secret

 

7 minutes ago, Nextmanup said:

All officiating teams and performances are reviewed by the league and graded, in an effort to keep quality up.

 

Only the best crews get to work playoff games, and the Super Bowl is officiated by the "best" officials, in theory.

If an official was consistently really poorly graded, I would like to think he would not be asked back to continue working.

 

Can you tell us more about the review/grading process?

 

 

[LABILLBACKER]

6 minutes ago, Nextmanup said:

Actually, I think people would!

 

Officiating is discussed here constantly, win, lose, or draw, and there is always a certain faction of fans that believe the Bills are specifically targeted as part of a conspiracy.

 

Then you have the theories about games being rigged by the NFL to promote certain Super Bowl matchups, etc.

 

 

....and then you have a portion of naive fans who see NFL officiating through rose colored glasses....

[CorkScrewHill]

8 minutes ago, Jeffbigalls said:

At the end of the day you didn't lose because of the refs,  you lost because you didn't.make enough plays. You had a chance to go down and win in over time and it didn't happen.  Just remember the officials on the field don't have the beauty of the replays shown on tv, they see what they see, call what they call.

They see what they see .. they just happen to see plays against Brady's offense as PI and plays against Brady's defense as good old fashioned jockeying with no call. I don't gripe about refereeing, but this was such a toxic dump of one sided calls .. the odds of it being not due to bias is to say the least slim.

[Bangarang]

10 minutes ago, Hapless Bills Fan said:

The refs for each game are available to the public.   It’s not hard to find.

For example, right now on NFL.com, for each week and each game, you can open a .pdf file which contains the names of all the officials.

 

https://nflcdns.nfl.com/liveupdate/gamecenter/58708/TB_Gamebook.pdf

 

It’s not a secret

 

 

Can you tell us more about the review/grading process?

 

 

Im not sure if the criteria for which the crews are graded is public knowledge. 
 

I do know that he is correct in that they are graded each week and the highest graded crews get playoff games.

The teams also get to send feedback to the league regarding calls, or lack thereof, but I’m not sure how that factors in the grading if at all. 

 

[Bruffalo]

Why do you need their names?  Are you going to personally tar and feather them? That's weird as hell man.

[Da webster guy]

I think one guys name was Roger Goodellski and UncleTommy Bradyia.

 

Seriously, whoever they were Daboll should have known as the game went on they werent throwing a flag unless its was a ridiculous mauling and Josh was breathing fire at that point.  The wrong time for a fade/,touch pass to a smallish redzone target.

[Generic_Bills_Fan]

We’ve gotten our share of official nfl apologies after the fact and I’d expect we get one more 

[Dan Darragh]

You're going to dox the refs?  Sick.

[Generic_Bills_Fan]

14 minutes ago, Da webster guy said:

I think one guys name was Roger Goodellski and UncleTommy Bradyia.

 

Seriously, whoever they were Daboll should have known as the game went on they werent throwing a flag unless its was a ridiculous mauling and Josh was breathing fire at that point.  The wrong time for a fade/,touch pass to a smallish redzone target.

The problem for me is the bucs were getting tossup dpis/defensive holding in their favor all night…what is Daboll supposed to do…normally those ‘let them play’ type games are naturally lower scoring but they only let one defensive play lol 

[Bermuda Triangle]

the refs should have to face media after the game, without having reviewed replays.

 

They've made themselves as much a part of the game as the players and coaches.

[GETTOTHE50]

i wish each owner had an opportunity to vet the refs before the game, like betting backgrounds, hometown backgrounds etc. kind of like a jury selection.

 

sports need to do away with reffing anyway, they always make the games worse. for the NFL, there needs to be on-field bouncers to stop scrums and blow the whistle to start and end the play.

 

idk im tired of these #######s determining games

[ShakAttack]

You know what bugs me the most? We’ve been at this for 20 years now with the Pats/Brady. And I feel that AT LEAST half of the games in which there have been major issues with officiating against the Bills have involved Brady’s team.
 

Now when you consider we were playing this team for only 2 of our 16 games each season (this year 1), yet at least half of our games with inexplicably bad officiating have involved the NFL’s Golden Boy, how can you argue that it’s coincidental any more? It isn’t.

 

And the WORST feeling for me as a fan is when you come to the realization that the NFL can and will force feed us with the success of whatever team they want. That in itself has made me wish I could stop being a fan. 
 

I was telling my buddy earlier. Drops cost us the Pats game. Refs cost us the Bucs game. I hate losing games because of self-inflicted issues, but NOTHING compares to refs dictating the game because that’s a situation the Bills have NO control over.

Edited December 13, 2021 by BobBelcher