NFL Referees (Officials) Week 17 2023: New England at Buffalo: Alan Eck

[chongli]

We had Eck previously in Week 11 vs. the Jets. This is Eck's first year as a referee, and his crew has never worked together before this season. The crew was formed from six different crews.

 

 

 

 

 

Pos.	No.	Name	Exp.	2022 Crew	College	Occupation
R	76	Alan Eck	8	Hussey	Bloomsburg State, Georgia State University	CPA/Tax Manager
U	110	Tab Slaughter	4	Novak	Arkansas State	COO
DJ	74	Derick Bowers	21	Blakeman	East Central	Sales Manager
LJ	134	Robin DiLorenzo	2	Hussey	Fordham	CFO, Telecommunications
FJ	117	John Jenkins	10	Kemp	St. Mary's	Sales Executive
SJ	104	Dale Shaw	11	Kemp	Allegheny	Pharmaceutical Sales
BJ	78	Greg Meyer	22	Clark	TCU	Banker
RO	n/a	Denise Crudup	4	Torbert	Wilmington	[unknown]

RA

n/a

Gerald Frye

4

Torbert

Cannon

[unknown]

 

Position changes:

Eck: U to R

DeLorenzo: DJ to LJ

 

 

Week 8 2023:

 

https://www.outkick.com/diontae-johnson-openly-bashes-nfl-referees-blames-them-for-steelers-loss-to-jaguars/

 

"DIONTAE JOHNSON OPENLY BASHES NFL REFEREES, BLAMES THEM FOR STEELERS LOSS TO JAGUARS"

 

"In Week 8, the Pittsburgh Steelers felt that the referees were out to get them. Steelers kicker Chris Boswell hit a 55-yard field goal at the end of the first half to put Pittsburgh down 9-6 heading into halftime.

 

Except, officials threw a flag on the play. “Offside,” referee Alan Eck announced. Everyone expected the next words to be “on the defense.” Instead, Eck said that the Steelers right guard lined up Offside and negated the field goal."

 

 

 

 

https://touchdownwire.usatoday.com/lists/nfl-worst-bryce-young-brian-daboll-nfl-officiating/

 

"Perhaps the league is a bit sensitive about roughing the passer after referee Alan Eck failed to call a textbook penalty against Jacksonville Jaguars defensive tackle Adam Gotsis in Week 8 in what was a textbook example of what the NFL doesn’t want you to do. Pickett was injured on the play, but perhaps the guys in Eck’s crew had the Burger King commercial theme in their heads."

 

https://clutchpoints.com/chargers-news-fans-wont-like-referees-explanation-justin-herbert-hit

 

"Chargers fans won't like referee's explanation of controversial Justin Herbert hit

 

The call didn’t cost them the game, but perhaps things would have been different had the Chargers scored a touchdown to open the game

 

On 2nd & 9 inside the red zone, Herbert scrambled out of bounds for a gain of five yards. That would have set up a managable 3rd down from inside the 10-yard line for the Chargers. Instead it ended up being 3rd & 19 after a personal foul was called on the Chargers following a reaction from the LA sideline due to a non-call on what looked like a late hit on Herbert.

 

The referee for the game, Alan Eck, said that it was a bang-bang play so it went to the judgement of him and his crew. They deemed the tackle to be legal.

 

“So, the ruling on the field was that the quarterback was trying to gain yardage. While he was still in bounds, the defender committed to the tackle,” Eck said, via Joe Reedy. “And as his foot landed out of bounds, the defender made contact. So, since the defender already committed to the tackle while the quarterback was in bounds, it was deemed a legal hit.”

 

 

 

 

Edited December 27, 2023 by chongli

[chongli]

Patrick Mahommes brownnosing Alan Eck Week 3 of this season, congratulating him for his promotion to referee:

 

[right at start of the video:]

 

 

[RiotAct]

25 minutes ago, chongli said:

We had Eck previously in Week 11 vs. the Jets. This is Eck's first year as a referee, and his has never worked together before this season. The crew was formed from six different crews.

						COO
DJ	74	Derick Bowers	21	Blakeman	East Central	Sales Manager
LJ	134	Robin DiLorenzo	2	Hussey	Fordham	CFO, Telecommunications
FJ	117	John Jenkins	10	Kemp	St. Mary's	Sales Executive
SJ	104	Dale Shaw	11	Kemp	Allegheny	Pharmaceutical Sales
BJ	78	Greg Meyer	22	Clark	TCU	Banker
RO	n/a	Denise Crudup	4	Torbert	Wilmington	[unknown]

RA

n/a

Gerald Frye

4

Torbert

Cannon

[unknown]

 

 

Kind of like the giant robot at the end of each Power Rangers episode!

[peterpan]

As long as we don’t ever get that eagles game crew, I’m good.

 

unless maybe we want the eagles game crew, and we could just pay them more!!!

[chongli]

11 minutes ago, Ryan Simpsons said:

How did Eck's crew do when we had them earlier in the year? was it the 12 man on the field crew??

 

We had Ecks for the Jets. The 12 men thing was Denver.

[Warcodered]

3 minutes ago, Ryan Simpsons said:

How did Eck's crew do when we had them earlier in the year? was it the 12 man on the field crew??

Quick glance has Jets 5(35yards) Bills 8(77)

[chongli]

 

I did some more googling. The guy is pretty ripped, very religious, and he says this when asked about his favorite food:

 

https://alittlebitofeverythingblog.com/q-a-with-tab/

 

"Favorite meal is tough and this has evolved some through the years. Growing up, my mom would make homemade chicken strips, white rice, brown gravy and brussel [sic] sprouts on my birthday because that was my favorite. I’m still a big fan but now it’s hard to beat a steak and a baked potato. Big time cheat meal is pizza and if calories didn’t matter and I only had one food to eat forever, it would probably be pizza or PB&J!"

 

[I'm a little concerned he (or his wife who wrote out the interview with him?) can't spell "Brussels sprouts" correctly, but ok.]

 

 

 

[Utah John]

15 hours ago, chongli said:

Patrick Mahommes brownnosing Alan Eck Week 3 of this season, congratulating him for his promotion to referee:

 

[right at start of the video:]

 

 

Well do you think Mahomes should have told Eck he didn't deserve the promotion??