Referee for Sunday Night (1 Viewer)

[OldSaintFan]

Looks as though we will have Carl Cheffers and crew.

 

[Cage1]

Here's a picture of our head referee.




Edit: And I'd still prefer him to Vinovich.

 

[Saint Spud]

Here's a picture of our head referee.




Edit: And I'd still prefer him to Vinovich.

Legit LOL

 

[jasonsw]

That picture shows a little discussed factor when it comes to refs. There are quite a few who are old. I respect their experience and knowledge, asking them to keep up with a sport that seems to move at a faster pace each year is a bit problematic.

 

[El Caliente]

Here's a picture of our head referee.




Edit: And I'd still prefer him to Vinovich.

Looks like he is already 3 sheets to the wind.

 

[Noble Saint]

Hope his cousin doesn’t own a gas station or bar in Arlington...

 

[Saint Spud]

Didn’t Cheffers call our game in Seattle? Is it a little unusual for an official to call the same team in B2B weeks?

 

[Noble Saint]

I have a habit of looking up officials that seem to put the screws to us at our home games. None of his crew jumps out at me except for one. #45 Line Judge. Can’t remember what the issue was though...

 

[Noble Saint]

Didn’t Cheffers call our game in Seattle? Is it a little unusual for an official to call the same team in B2B weeks?

Wasn’t Cheffers. Think it was a new guy.

 

[Saint Spud]

Wasn’t Cheffers. Think it was a new guy.

Ah wait, Nevermind. I got it from this article and he was talking about Seattle’s previous game in Pittsburgh.

https://www.thenewstribune.com/sports/nfl/seattle-seahawks/article235405677.html

 

[Alan12]

Cheffers’ crew has been fair to us over the years, but so was Vinovich’s until the NFC Championship so take what I’m about to post with a whole box of salt...

Cheffers has been in the white hat for 13 of our games during the Payton Era. In that span we’ve amassed a 12-1 record with splits of 8-1 in New Orleans and 4-0 on the road. Here’s the list of games in that span:

• 2009 Week 13 @ Redskins, 33-30 W
• 2011 Week 9 vs. Buccaneers, 27-16 W
• 2012 Week 5 vs. Chargers, 31-24 W
• 2013 Week 17 vs. Buccaneers, 42-17 W
• 2014 Week 5 vs. Buccaneers, 37-31 W
• 2014 Week 15 @ Bears, 31-15 W
• 2015 Week 2 vs. Buccaneers, 19-26 L
• 2015 Week 7 @ Colts, 27-21 W
• 2016 Week 15 @ Cardinals, 48-41 W
• 2017 Week 8 vs. Bears, 20-12 W
• 2018 Week 5 vs. Redskins, 43-19 W
• 2018 Week 11 vs. Eagles, 48-7 W
• 2018 Divisional vs. Eagles, 20-14 W

In recent years his crew’s number of flags seem to have gone down for the most part with the exception of the Divisional playoff game last year (which was an “all-star” crew and not his normal cronies) and more than half the games (8 of the 13) were called relatively evenly regarding penalties.
His crew doesn’t seem to be overly “flag happy”, but they also aren’t loosely officiated.

Edit: I’m just now realizing Cheffers has nearly an entirely new crew this year with the exception of his side judge so yeah, this may be a bumpy one.



Cheffers also officiates the snap very tightly (he called Brees for a false start in Week 11 last year for his hand gesture/head bob) so Bridgewater has to be on his P’s and Q’s regarding that.

With all that said, these are all generalizations and can be as worthless as the words on your screen are, but form your own conclusions.

 

[NewOrleansFan]

Good that Cavalento, Turner, Prukop, Tom Hill, Strietsky, Bayne, and Vinovich are not on that list. Those should never be allow to call another Saints game.

 

[GTSaint]

Does there really have to be a ref from North Texas on the crew?

Oh well, I guess I see every one of the NFC contending areas represented.

 

[Hey BAY BAY!!!]

What hotel Footlockers at?

 

[OldSaintFan]

Didn’t Cheffers call our game in Seattle? Is it a little unusual for an official to call the same team in B2B weeks?

No, it was Torbert's crew.