Except for Justin Tucker.
But to be fair, sometimes a FGA fails because of the snap and/or the hold, not to mention the footing at that particular place on the field or the weather.
Zurkerx wrote:Luminesa wrote:Can’t even criticize the refs? What’s this, 1798? And $12,500 is pocket change to these people. They’re just gonna keep saying it until something changes. Mayfield flipped off a whole crowd once in college, he’s not gonna shut up.
This seems extremely unlikely but if a significant amount of NFL Players were to go on say "strike" due to the rules and the reffing, I guarantee they would change something. Slightly more likely though would be NFL Fans boycotting the games until changes were made; hit them in the wallet they say. Again, extremely unlikely but it's the only way. Or just get rid of Goodell.
The fans/media are the only ones who players can't criticize the refs on calls. Just like if any of us publicly criticized any of the businesses where we work, we wouldn't be around long. The player can tell the ref on the field they blew a call if that's what they think, but they better not touch the ref. They can tell their teammates how they feel. They can tell their parents, wife and kids or even their dog.
More to the point, they can tell their coach who can lodge a complaint to the league office. Hell, sometimes the league office admit they made a mistake. But the league (as far as I know) does not fine the refs any money. That's the rub.
How about fining the refs? The fine could be paid to the players/team and not the league. This would create a feedback loop and I'd bet the refs would try harder to get the correct call. This I'd like to see. Fine the refs and have them pay it to the player they screwed and/or the team if it cost them a game. The latter, naturally, would be a more costly fine. Of course this would all depend on the league office admitting a lot of mistakes by the refs they hired, trained and put in charge. That's where the plan kind of goes all to hell.
