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Originally Posted by CRedskinsRule
I agree with most everything said here. When they were negotiating, I heard a bunch of arguments against full time officials. None of them hold water to the crud that is put out every week across the league.
imo, they ought to have full time officials, and they ought to make sure they are physically capable of keeping up with the speed of the game (yes let Mike Shanahan run the referee conditioning tests!!!)
Then, they ought to employ virtual games in the off-season, running the critical plays of the last two years through VR headsets, purposely putting errors and bad judgement calls in, and grade the refs on the virtual games.
Otherwise, it seems like the conspiracy theories of the NFL wanting so and so to win or lose will continue forever, and the game will only get worse.
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I thought I heard Andrew Brandt on the Ross Tucker podcast saying that the officials were against doing this, while the league actually wanted this. Given the issues in officiating, I can't see the NFL having an issue making this happening now.