Dean Blandino Says NFL Officials Open To Expanded Repay After Blown TNF Calls

The soccer world is up in arms after two CRITICAL missed calls on the deciding play in Thursday evening’s Ravens vs. Bengals recreation. So, how does the league repair it? We requested the previous VP of Officiating for the NFL.

Dean Blandino joined Babcock on the TMZ Sports activities TV present on Friday (airs nightly on FS1) … the place we talked about every thing from the play in query (the place there precise fouls), to punishment for the refs who missed calls, to enhancing officiating transferring ahead.

“[Officials] would [welcome expanded replay],” Blandino, now FOX Sports activities’ NFL and school soccer guidelines analyst, mentioned of including further replay.

“When replay first came back in 1999, there was a little pushback because it’s like anything else. You’re doing a job and now you feel like you’ve got somebody over your shoulder. That is going to tell you, ‘No, you did this wrong. You did that wrong.’ But now the technology has advanced so far. And so you have these tools and these resources. Why not use them?”

Finally, Dean says the refs desperately wish to make the appropriate calls.

“I can tell you having spent so much time with officials and in the officiating world, nobody wants to get it right more than the officials. The officials don’t feel good. And I know everybody else, the players, the Bengals, obviously today, but the officials feel worse because they want to get it right.”

“So if there’s something, an opportunity for us to get it right and not be talking about officiating after the game, they’re going to welcome it.”

Sadly, there is not any going again to repair the blown calls on the failed two-point conversion, so the Bengals must reside with the outcomes.

And so will the refs … which begs the query, what occurs to the crew from final evening’s recreation?

“[Officials] get graded and evaluated on every call, every missed call. So I would imagine they would get downgrades. But I wouldn’t think there’d be anything above and beyond that.”

Blandino additionally believes it’d behoove the NFL to launch an announcement acknowledging

“I think sometimes you got to come out and own it and say, ‘hey, we messed this up.’ I think that lends itself to the credibility”