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If the league wanted to drop the hammer on Washington, they'd simply penalize them for the workplace issues they spent time and money investigating. Instead, they sniped Chucky.

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I have an explanation. The officials are all part time. The NFL is the only major professional sport with part time officials. They are basically incompetent on average. I believe the NFL knows they need to go to fulltime refs, but how? How do you sufficiently train 17 or 18 full crews from scratch during a single off-season? There are several competent officials currently, but how many would give up their regular careers to become fulltime. That first year of transition would be a nightmare.

It will also take an "eye in the sky" official that can immediately over turn any call on the field or quickly submit an ignored or missed call.

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Its also possible that if the officials were full time, they would be able to train year round on how to screw all the teams Goodell hates and plausibly deny it, much more severely and cleverly than they already do. I would rather emphasize independent accountable officials first and worry about full time later. North Korean judges are full time, that doesnt make them impartial as long as they protect their own and answer to the little rocket man. We have a little rocket man problem, even moreso than an officiating problem.

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After reading this I'm thinking maybe start out with 20 crew chiefs full time.
Their responsibility would be games and year round training. I'm sure with the leagues money they could easily afford it.

However that may cut into Rogers humble salary and his shack in the modest little village of Bronxville, NY (just a tad bit more affluent than the Bronx itself)

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There are a LOT of possible solutions, and the league keeps kicking the can and has been for decades as it flatly refuses to address what is a very real 'problem', unless of course they don't really want to address it.

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At least we made it to the highlight reel.

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Rigged league on full display.

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Not rigged officiating. Incompetent. As part time officials they have little true incentive to be more competent. If they lose their refereeing jobs, big deal. They still have their real paying jobs at home. Fulltime refs would have a vested interest.

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I think that’s one of the reasons Sean Payton stepped down from the competition committee… He was a big advocate for full-time refs, among other things, and they don’t seem to have any interest in making those improvements.