I agree. You hear this in every sport that refs are the worst they have ever been but I think reffing has become harder than ever. In every sport, athletes have gotten faster and the rules have changed to encourage quicker play in basketball, hockey, soccer, etc. Rules have also gotten more convoluted and grey making it harder to make quick, easy decisions. Refs are asked to do an extremely difficult job where they are set up to fail.
Football is just an impossible sport to officiate well, especially at the speed of the pro game. Even if refs don’t miss a single obvious call, there will be plenty of borderline calls for people to complain about that are just a subjective decision.
Came here to say this. It is the rules and the ever increasing rules that don’t let people actually play the game. DPI is very “all over the place”. Same thing with roughing the QB.
I still think the problem is more the rules than the refs.
College refs are worse than NFL refs and yet big time college games are usually much less impacted by the officiating.
Look at the Michigan vs OSU game - the officiating was so much better in that game compared to the average NFL game from a viewer standpoint.
I vastly prefer how DBs are officiated in the NCAA - there are far less ticky tack DPIs and holds.
I agree. You hear this in every sport that refs are the worst they have ever been but I think reffing has become harder than ever. In every sport, athletes have gotten faster and the rules have changed to encourage quicker play in basketball, hockey, soccer, etc. Rules have also gotten more convoluted and grey making it harder to make quick, easy decisions. Refs are asked to do an extremely difficult job where they are set up to fail.
Football is just an impossible sport to officiate well, especially at the speed of the pro game. Even if refs don’t miss a single obvious call, there will be plenty of borderline calls for people to complain about that are just a subjective decision.
Came here to say this. It is the rules and the ever increasing rules that don’t let people actually play the game. DPI is very “all over the place”. Same thing with roughing the QB.