How to fix the officiating, Cowboys & Packers talk with Ed Werder, and Favre's first throw with Doc Emrick

The Peter King Podcast

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4.4 • 872 Ratings

🗓️ 16 October 2019

⏱️ 61 minutes

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Summary

(1:30) Peter King examines the current confusion with the state of officiating, including why it's clear that the NFL is trying to deter coaches from challenging pass interference, and why it's time for a Sky Judge to help fix some of the problems (6:40) Peter speaks with longtime NFL reporter Ed Werder to discuss the wacky Lions-Packers game from MNF, the state of the Cowboys, and Jason Garrett's job security (37:50) Legendary NBC hockey announcer Doc Emrick talks about starting his career as a teacher, getting his start in broadcasting, lessons from Ernie Harwell, his fortunate break getting hired as the Devils play-by-play announcer, and the classic story of how he called Brett Favre's first throw

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0:00.0	Welcome to the Peter King Podcast, an interesting week six to cover in the National Football League, a controversial
0:16.2	week six. We're going to get into a lot of the details of the officiating, is it too much to call it an officiating
0:24.5	crisis I don't think so but we're going to talk to Ed Werder of ESPN the once
0:30.2	informer ESPN reporter who was in Green Bay for the quite controversial Green Bay
0:39.3	Detroit ball game on Monday night and we're going to talk about officiating and we're
0:46.6	going to talk about the state of the Dallas Cowboys. He's a regular beat guy on
0:51.6	the Cowboys as well and also I'm going to play you a conversation that I had
0:57.6	recently with Doc Emmerich. The NHL season is getting off to a strong start so far this year and I had a chance to speak to Doc Emmerich when we both got inducted into the National Sports Media Hall of Fame back in June.
1:15.8	You'll hear that conversation, including his great memory of an NFL play-by-play moment that absolutely shocked me and I think you'll get a kick out of it too.
1:28.0	But first, I want to just go over two things about officiating before we start with Ed Werder that are particularly
1:38.2	bothersome to me.
1:40.7	And the first thing is that when the NFL met in March and redid the rules and basically allowed coaches to appeal and challenge pass interference calls. Both plays that they believed
1:57.8	were pass interference and were not called on the field and pass interference calls that they believed were false.
2:05.7	When the NFL did that, there was nothing written in the rule that said that we're only going to call these in playoff games or in mega games.
2:17.0	It said that if there was a clear and obvious foul or a clear and obvious reason to change an obvious
2:24.0	reason to change a call on the field,
2:27.0	then the call should be changed.
2:29.0	But what the NFL is done with Senior Vice President of
2:32.0	officiating Al Riveron, especially in the last month of
2:37.1	the season.
2:38.1	ESPN has a great stat on this in that there have been 25 challenge flags thrown by head coaches since week three
2:49.0	on the past interference rule.
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