I am actually an official apologist of sorts....I do acknowledge they get a lot wrong but I think their job is so much harder than people realize and they actually get a ton of things right...people only talk about things that are subjective or blatent missed calls. When you can do super slow motion and see hey that guys hand hit the guy a frame earlier than the ball arrived it will always be easy to criticize. The amount of rules and the details of the rules is a huge amount of information that needs to be processed all the time. Take a minute to realize the improvements they have done. A number of years ago, all you would hear abotu on Mondays is catches that were rule incomplete cause some miniscule ball movement, they NFL did a great job of fixing the interpretation of what is and is not a catch and there will always be some that are close there are less controversial catch/no catches today. The quick booth reviews that happen that fix ball placement, determine a called TD is not a TD or a guy ruled out is changed to a TD without coach or field officials doing anything is another improvement. If anyone thinks it "is only getting worse" I challenge you to go to youtube and watch a game from the 90's when obvious INT's or fumbles or TD's are wrong and it is clear as day by replay but there was not replay to fix it. All of those they get right now.
1. Having the officials be full time will not make better officials, only technology and reviews can make it better.
2. Subjectivity is hard to remove (PI, roughing the passer etc) but any time you can remove subjectivity it should be done and generally the NFL has tried to do that but you can't get rid of all of it.
3. Make embellishing a foul, Josh Allen is one of many who should be flagged for this. The over protection of QB's and receivers has resulted in guys overreacting to minor hits trying to get the call.
4. Humans can really only look/focus at one thing, when you watch a replay 16 times you can look at many things but in real time you can only see one thing so it is unrealistic to expect these guys to be perfect. Instead they should continue to use reviews to fix mistakes.
5. They should continue to try to find ways to use reviews and other possible uses of technology like chips in balls etc.
Thanks for reading if you got this far. I know most wont agree with this but its my 2 cents...
