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Report: Mike Carey out at CBS
Posted by Michael David Smith on June 11, 2016
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Mike Carey, the former NFL referee whose botched television analysis of replay reviews became a punch line among football fans, will not be back on CBS.
Bob Raissman of the New York Daily News reports that Carey is not expected to return as the CBS rules analyst for the 2016 season.
Amid withering criticism, CBS defended Carey, claiming that he was doing good work and the criticism of him was hurtful. But CBS had to know Carey simply wasn’t up to the task: He had one job, to tell viewers what was going to happen while a referee reviewed a replay, and Carey often didn’t get that one job right.
View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k6LRFO1FfRg
That culminated in the Super Bowl, when Carey wrongly claimed that Carolina would win a challenge on an incomplete pass. After Carolina lost the challenge, CBS didn’t bring Carey back for the rest of the game.
Raissman reports that CBS is “highly unlikely” to hire another retired official. Although Mike Pereira does the job well for FOX, it’s a tough job to do well, as it requires both a thorough understanding of the NFL’s complex rulebook and a clear, concise ability to speak on television.
Both Carey and former ref Gerry Austin, who works for ESPN, have struggled to explain rulings quickly, concisely and correctly.
Carey was well regarded as a referee, but it seems unlikely that the NFL will hire him back. It’s unclear whether he has any future in football at all, or whether he’ll now just enjoy retirement.
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Blame CBS, not Mike Carey, for the failed Mike Carey experiment
Posted by Mike Florio on June 11, 2016
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The smartest (i.e., least stupid) move CBS has made in connection with the two-year Mike Carey experiment was pulling the plug on it. The blame for Carey’s failure, however, falls primarily upon the powers-that-be at CBS and not Mike Carey.
In hindsight, Carey never should have been hired. Regardless of justifications CBS management would now offer for giving Carey such a prominent role in its NFL broadcasts, it was obvious from the moment Carey first opened his mouth that, despite his ability to say “holding, 65, offense” in a clear and authoritative way while on the field as a referee, he lacks the ability to choose in real time from a broader universe of available words when discussing the decisions being made by the people currently doing the job he used to do.
This means that CBS didn’t give Carey a proper audition for the job — or that CBS did give him a proper audition but failed to properly assess his work.
View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C8o9qPUCCak
Apart from the misguided decision to hire Carey, CBS thereafter failed to coach him. The best TV producers (and I have the privilege of working with them . . . which I guess I don’t need to say now that my extension has been signed) will tell the on-air employees where and how to improve, in clear, candid terms.
And they’ll keep telling them, over and over again until it takes. If it never takes, the relationship simply can’t continue.
CBS should have been pushing Carey hard enough to improve to know that after one year the relationship needed to end. Someone decided to give him another year, which was the third major mistake CBS made.
It seemed as if CBS would opt to circle the wagons around Carey, pushing back against the criticism he received. Carey himself tried to offer up explanations and excuses for his poor performance with remarks that underscored a lack of self-awareness so complete that even Michael Scott would say, “Wow, that guy has no self-awareness.”
Ultimately, the job requires a thorough understanding of the rules along with a thorough understanding of the role. Mike Carey wasn’t hired to make guesses about replay rulings but to assess and analyze which rules applied, how they should be applied based on the available camera angles, and what the outcome should be. If the job is done correctly, there’s no right or wrong. The rules analyst is always right, and anyone who disagrees with him (including the game officials) is wrong.
It’s not an easy job, but that’s no excuse for letting someone do it poorly. The fact that Mike Pereira of FOX makes it look much easier than it is makes it hard for someone like Mike Carey or Gerry Austin or Ed Hochuli (“Ed, the game ended 45 minutes ago and we went off the air 40 minutes ago; you can stop talking”) to compete.
Report: Mike Carey out at CBS
Posted by Michael David Smith on June 11, 2016
Mike Carey, the former NFL referee whose botched television analysis of replay reviews became a punch line among football fans, will not be back on CBS.
Bob Raissman of the New York Daily News reports that Carey is not expected to return as the CBS rules analyst for the 2016 season.
Amid withering criticism, CBS defended Carey, claiming that he was doing good work and the criticism of him was hurtful. But CBS had to know Carey simply wasn’t up to the task: He had one job, to tell viewers what was going to happen while a referee reviewed a replay, and Carey often didn’t get that one job right.
View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k6LRFO1FfRg
That culminated in the Super Bowl, when Carey wrongly claimed that Carolina would win a challenge on an incomplete pass. After Carolina lost the challenge, CBS didn’t bring Carey back for the rest of the game.
Raissman reports that CBS is “highly unlikely” to hire another retired official. Although Mike Pereira does the job well for FOX, it’s a tough job to do well, as it requires both a thorough understanding of the NFL’s complex rulebook and a clear, concise ability to speak on television.
Both Carey and former ref Gerry Austin, who works for ESPN, have struggled to explain rulings quickly, concisely and correctly.
Carey was well regarded as a referee, but it seems unlikely that the NFL will hire him back. It’s unclear whether he has any future in football at all, or whether he’ll now just enjoy retirement.
http://profootballtalk.nbcsports.co...e-carey-for-the-failed-mike-carey-experiment/
http://profootballtalk.nbcsports.co...e-carey-for-the-failed-mike-carey-experiment/
Blame CBS, not Mike Carey, for the failed Mike Carey experiment
Posted by Mike Florio on June 11, 2016
The smartest (i.e., least stupid) move CBS has made in connection with the two-year Mike Carey experiment was pulling the plug on it. The blame for Carey’s failure, however, falls primarily upon the powers-that-be at CBS and not Mike Carey.
In hindsight, Carey never should have been hired. Regardless of justifications CBS management would now offer for giving Carey such a prominent role in its NFL broadcasts, it was obvious from the moment Carey first opened his mouth that, despite his ability to say “holding, 65, offense” in a clear and authoritative way while on the field as a referee, he lacks the ability to choose in real time from a broader universe of available words when discussing the decisions being made by the people currently doing the job he used to do.
This means that CBS didn’t give Carey a proper audition for the job — or that CBS did give him a proper audition but failed to properly assess his work.
View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C8o9qPUCCak
Apart from the misguided decision to hire Carey, CBS thereafter failed to coach him. The best TV producers (and I have the privilege of working with them . . . which I guess I don’t need to say now that my extension has been signed) will tell the on-air employees where and how to improve, in clear, candid terms.
And they’ll keep telling them, over and over again until it takes. If it never takes, the relationship simply can’t continue.
CBS should have been pushing Carey hard enough to improve to know that after one year the relationship needed to end. Someone decided to give him another year, which was the third major mistake CBS made.
It seemed as if CBS would opt to circle the wagons around Carey, pushing back against the criticism he received. Carey himself tried to offer up explanations and excuses for his poor performance with remarks that underscored a lack of self-awareness so complete that even Michael Scott would say, “Wow, that guy has no self-awareness.”
Ultimately, the job requires a thorough understanding of the rules along with a thorough understanding of the role. Mike Carey wasn’t hired to make guesses about replay rulings but to assess and analyze which rules applied, how they should be applied based on the available camera angles, and what the outcome should be. If the job is done correctly, there’s no right or wrong. The rules analyst is always right, and anyone who disagrees with him (including the game officials) is wrong.
It’s not an easy job, but that’s no excuse for letting someone do it poorly. The fact that Mike Pereira of FOX makes it look much easier than it is makes it hard for someone like Mike Carey or Gerry Austin or Ed Hochuli (“Ed, the game ended 45 minutes ago and we went off the air 40 minutes ago; you can stop talking”) to compete.