You mean the call made by the guy who retired after last year?
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what about the Ref that missed the huge offsides on the Patriots against us?
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PGM now owes my cat 3 ribs and a lung . . .


j/k - don't have a cat
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This sucks really. Guy makes one blatant mistake and he's canned. They are human...
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NFLRA is filing a grievance.
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And that's a bad fucking move in a common fan's eyes.

Guy fucked up bigly and Cruz' dismissal is a fair pound of flesh the NFL should get as a consequence.
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There are calls missed every week. Why was this ref singled out for missing a call?
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Fire them all. They all suck.
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This.
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I mean, what are they supposed to do if not that? That's what they are paid to do.
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They need to be better at their craft and not be preening jackasses like Ed Hochuli Sr.
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If he wasn't missing any more calls than anyone else, I would agree.

Or was this guy missing a lot and this was the final straw?

The NFL supposedly reviews every official for every game and gives them some type of score and feedback.

If you are going to hold refs to a higher standard, somebody has to be the first one fired. I'm not going to cry for him about that.

I believe their is a natural tendency for refs to slightly favor home teams and slightly more favor bigger stars. I don't believe they are out and out trying to fix games based on TV revenue, etc.

But I absolutely would like the NFL to try and grade the refs in the most neutral way possible and fire the ones at the bottom.
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He was on very thin ice before he missed that false start.
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Rumor is there is gambling involved but that is very unsubstantiated (read: twitter)
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Network announcer: "Let's bring in NFL rules expert Jeff Triplette to get his take on this situation."
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