Mike Pereira
Mike Pereira
Mike Pereira is a former American football official and later Vice President of Officiating for the National Football League. Since 2010, he has served as a rules analyst for Fox Sports...
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We had problems distinguishing whether it was the collar of the jersey or the inside of the shoulder pad. But the result was the same.
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There's no going back, at least not in our game, so technology is something officials can't be scared of, ... It's up to them to train and work harder to meet that challenge. In that sense, I believe it's a positive and not a negative.
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What we want to do is to pick up the paper Monday and read about the game, not the officiating. We all want to be anonymous.
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If an official wants to see all the illegal contact calls, for instance, he can go to the site and watch them all, one after another.
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Nobody wants to be called the No Fun League. But we also don't want it to be ridiculous. We have to balance in here that kids do emulate what our players do. What we deem to be acceptable is not acceptable on other levels, like high school and college.
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Let's face it. We do protect the quarterback.
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I can't say it's a concern. I don't track the crews on the number of calls. I track them on the percentage of correct calls, and Johnny's crew is right in line with the percentage of the other crews. I think they've had a couple of games that have lent themselves to lots of calls.
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You have to guard that one like your life depends on it.
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To me, the mistakes we make on replay all come when we overturn when we shouldn't overturn,
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We've got great officials in this league. Now it's up to us to train them so that penalties are the same in every game. I think we need to be clear that it's impossible for every crew to get every call right. But we need to be sure that going into the game every official's definition of a penalty is the same. Judgment may overshadow that at times, but I know our guys will try to do it. We're going to win the battle.
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The on-field officiating crew, which oversees the official game clock operated in the press box, failed to recognize that the clock was improperly reset.
We want to be anonymous. We don't want to be part of the outcome. We don't want to be part of the story. But that does happen.
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As long as they don't direct it directly at their opponent or the opponent's bench, as long as it's a single-person act that's not directly facing the opponent, then we'll deem that it's not taunting, that it's cute and in some cases entertaining. It's done a lot for television. As long as it doesn't create ill will with their opponent.
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You're beginning to cross the line there. That's directed to your opponent.