Does The NFL Have A Ref Problem? | In Football Today
The Valenti Show
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🗓️ 18 January 2024
⏱️ 11 minutes
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The guys go around the NFL, starting with Commissioner Goodell's comments on refereeing in his interview with Mike Tirico. Then, they eventually get around to Matthew Stafford's initial reaction to Kerby Joseph's low hit on the Rams' Tyler Higbee.
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| 0:00.0 | All right now. |
| 0:03.0 | It's time for a little football today. |
| 0:05.0 | Music please. |
| 0:06.0 | I think it tells you I'm right. |
| 0:10.0 | They're pushing the ombal. |
| 0:12.0 | I'm going to watch this team. |
| 0:15.0 | Can I just say ass in football today? |
| 0:18.0 | Brought to you by Hungry Howie's Flavored Trust Pizza. |
| 0:22.0 | Mike, let's start right here in the city of Detroit, |
| 0:28.0 | uh, Wednesday. |
| 0:30.0 | Mike Tereco and Roger G'dale had a sit-down fireside chat to discuss the upcoming draft down at |
| 0:36.9 | Ford Field. But one of the topics they talked about was Referene. And they said that the refs are not perfect and that they are out there trying their best and Roger Giddell just feels as if he's proud of what the refs are doing. |
| 0:54.1 | Plain and simple, you know that they're not gonna bad mouth the refs, Mike, |
| 0:57.6 | but what is the fix that the league can do |
| 1:00.8 | because they have to see what we see. Refereing is bad across the board. |
| 1:05.6 | Yeah, I mean it would be investing in your product. |
| 1:08.8 | Look, it's hard for fans to accept that you just got paid $110 million to broadcast a singular |
| 1:17.8 | playoff game on streaming. Yet, we don't want to spend the money it would take to have the highest paid officials in all of sports on a full time basis where 24-7 365 your life is football. |
| 1:32.2 | You're no longer a principal. You're not an attorney. You're not an |
| 1:35.8 | orthodontist. You are an NFL official. And I don't care what it costs. You can laugh. Go ahead. You know what the NFL minimum is for a player right now? It's like 800 grand. |
| 1:45.6 | Yeah. Pay refs a millionaire. Do whatever it takes. Your life is football. And I'll tell you the other thing. |
| 1:52.4 | I don't think you should have a bunch of 60, |
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