Jeff Triplette - this explains a lot

[Prime Time]

Imo this guy is the worst ref in the NFL by a long shot, and lo and behold he was head of the officials’ union. For once PFT and I agree on something. Notice their scathing comment at the end.

http://profootballtalk.nbcsports.co...gns-as-president-of-nfl-referees-association/

Jeff Triplette resigns as president of NFL Referees Association
Posted by Michael David Smith on February 17, 2017

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Longtime NFL referee Jeff Triplette will no longer be the head of the officials’ union.

The NFL Referees Association announced today that Triplette has resigned as president of the organization. He will be replaced as president by Tony Steratore.

Triplette has a long history of bungling rules and needing replay protocols to be changed to keep him from screwing up. Nonetheless, he has lasted 21 seasons as an NFL ref. There’s no indication that his departure from the Referees Association could signal an impending departure as a referee.

 

[VegasRam]

Unfucking believable.
But sadly, all too believable.

Good news is Steratore is imo the best ref out there. Maybe there's hope.

 

[NERamsFan]

Steratore is the man, glad he was "promoted." Don't let the door hit ya, Triplette.

 

[Merlin]

The league is to blame. They need to invest in the refs and build a top core of professionals that ONLY do that. If they want to be doctors cya later. If they want to be lawyers get the F out. Full time pros who know the rule book backwards and forwards and pay them big money. Replace the ones who suck. Set the bar high ffs.

 

[Prime Time]

http://profootballtalk.nbcsports.com/2017/02/28/league-considering-full-time-referees-again/

League considering full-time referees, again
Posted by Mike Florio on February 28, 2017

The issue of full-time officials has percolated from time to time over the past five years. Indeed, the 2012 labor deal between the league and the NFL Referees Association gave the NFL the right to hire up to 17 full-time officials.

The NFL once again is considering whether to finally follow through on it, via Judy Battista of NFL Media.

So why hasn’t it happened yet? As PFT wrote in December 2016: “The fundamental problem, as it relates to making a part-time, seasonal employee a full-time, year-round employee, is providing the employee with enough compensation to entice the employee to ditch any other employment. Complicating matters is the fact that having other employment gives the official financial security in the event that the officiating assignment evaporates due to poor performance.”

According to the NFL Media report, “full-time referees would be gradually phased in, to give current referees the opportunity to either exit their current careers or to leave the officiating ranks.” Innocuous on the surface, that sentence carries a fairly ominous message: Referees eventually will be expected to pick one job or the other, and those who don’t want to give up more lucrative professions will have to at some point surrender their officiating careers.

The league previously has resisted forcing the best of the best officials to choose one job over the other, tolerating moonlighting because: (1) it’s cheaper to pay an employee on a part-time basis; and (2) having a really good official part of the time is better than having a so-so official all of the time. But the time apparently is coming for some officials to go all in or all out, with the NFL having complete access to them every month of the offseason — and every day of the in-season.

It remains to be seen whether the plan will be finalized. When NFL executive V.P. of football operations Troy Vincent said in November that the league will consider adding 17 full-time officials for 2017, the NFL Referees Association made it clear that the union will have a say regarding the issue.

The issue of full-time officials returned to the front burner several weeks earlier, when Saints coach Asshole Face said during a visit to PFT Live that having part-time officials is “madness.” In the aftermath of those remarks, NFL executive V.P. of football operations Dean Blandino acknowledged that the idea has merit.

 

[jrry32]

Let's hope that Tripleshit never refs another game. Fuck him. I will never forget the total screwjob against the Bears in 2015. It was clear he was not calling that game down the middle (or anywhere even approaching the middle). IMO, it was to punish us for Joyner knocking out Bridgewater.

 

[Ramrasta]

The NFL makes billions of dollars and they are worried about how much they pay officials? What a joke.

 

[DaveFan'51]

There’s no indication that his departure from the Referees Association could signal an impending departure as a referee.

We can only hope and pray!!