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The problem with NFL officiating is just how antiquated their tool kit is. They have microchips that can go inside jerseys to track all sorts of data on players, to help design plays and all sorts. Plus there are probably like a million other data tags, drone cameras, and another thousand pieces of active pieces of tech processing and capturing a game.

Yet when it comes down to a vital play call, a catch, a conversion, whatever. The refs use an eye test, they use some flag thing on a chain, shrug their shoulders and make a call. They tell us these higher power being up stairs also takes a look at the replay too and feeds a decision down to them, but I feel like this is often said just to shut people up, because the broadcast will seconds later find 12 different angles that show the call was wrong. Like it just feels so utterly absurd.

I get they don't want to slow the game down, I get that we have to trust the refs on the ground to do their job (although even this is weird, cause I am pretty sure no NFL ref is full time, they have other jobs like a billion dollar industry and we can't have full time refs?!) but I don't care about slowing the game down, I care about the calls being right. I care about games coming down to the people on the field, not down to people in black and white squinting into a pile and just deciding the fate of a team's season.

Simply using stone age technology to decide these vital, game swinging, moments where the tech exists to solve this, is actively being used elsewhere and quite often proves the refs using some sticks and rocks to make the decision got it wrong. It is like how can conspiracy theorists not look at this like its a farce.

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Which team is the stupidest, LA or Dallas? Probably Dallas, right? Like, LA are not going to win anything anyway, so it doesn't matter if Luka can't defend, but he will still be an MVP type superstar in a big market.

But Dallas, it feels