Don't get me wrong, I am happy the real referees are back. I am saying now get ready to boo NOT because I expect them to be inept like the replacements but because no matter what you will ALWAYS feel your team could have gotten a break. A holding penalty is gonna be missed, a Helmet to was it his helmet or his shoulder and did he duck his head changing the trajectory is gonna be called.
Here is the thing they are calling THE RULES, some of the rules many of us grew up not ever seeing be used so they are new and seem so touchy feely. Some of them you will feel are biased because(say like Donovan in his Philly hey day) not everybody is as well protected. I do know one thing, when it is time to spot the ball, it won't take 3 committees. And then afterwards they still blow the whistle and move the ball. Yes the real refs will make some mistakes, but they won't be mistakes because they don't know the rules, it will be a mistake because they are human. The human eye can't catch everything, and on some instances it may be close enough where it just depends on interpretation.
I may not always like it, but that I can live with. If the way you see it that arm going out was a shove or it looks like he had some shirt, whistle flag, pass interference. If the guy didn't turn around for the ball but just appeared to touch the offensive player okay illegal contact. Granted I can see the Eagles being in trouble, Mick Vick has been intentionally grounding a lot of throws lately so I will see a spike in those calls, but hopefully it will lead Andy Reid to "Run the Damn BALL" more in the future.
Most calls are interpretation calls, what did this or that judge see. Then when you talk to the other refs you can either pick the flag up or award the penalty, and you understand what the terminology means. You don't just say it to feel important, you say it because you understand it's importance. Personally I better see a lot of flags in Philly this week, this is the Dawkins bowl. Weapon X is about to have his number retired, vs the NY football Giants(I know stealing this from Berman) I expect to see HITTING. I mean straight up and down, in your face, not in MY HOUSE, hitting. The defense is decent this year but a lot of teams have no qualms about throwing over the middle or doing that little in the flat pass. Dawkins did not allow that, not in his house, and he was a monster sack artist.
Aaaaah memories, so yeah the real refs are back, football is actually here and we may not like the stripes but it isn't because they are incompetent, it's because we disagree with how they intrepreted the rules
This is true.
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