Sean Payton opens up about why he left the Saints (merged)

LordPoopington said

The one other thing I will add that's tangential to the point of Vinovich that I HATE about the NFL is...I know a guy who spent decades as a high school football ref. He says he's always thought the NFL going with all-star crews for playoff games is a terrible idea b/c a crew that's worked together will be less afraid about speaking up or potentially contradicting someone. They can tell when a crew member needs help with a call. All-star crews negate that.

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EXACTLY!!!:melike: This was the REAL issue with that officiating crew. If that group had been a crew who had worked together all year, they wouldn't have had a problem with working together to correct a call. What we saw on that infamous day was a group who worried about who had the right to override a call that they may have seen differently.

Cavaletto screwed up and no one wanted to challenge his ruling even though two officials had a much better angle of the infraction. And a regular crew would have gotten the call right. :hm: