Dean Blandino, vice president of officiating at the NFL, has released his weekly tape for the media on rules clarifications (140 MB download). Here are the...
 Ed Hochuli will be in London for the second international game of the season. The crews of Walt Coleman, Tony Corrente, Bill Leavy, and Jeff...
2 controversial plays involve new rules Football Zebras Roundtable By now we’ve heard every angle of Rule 9-1-3(b)(2) that gave the Jets a second chance to...
Week 7: Bengals at Lions Lions coach Jim Schwartz is very cautious now about launching the red challenge flag, after being burned by a since-overturned rule...
The NFL announced that the suspension of Brandon Meriweather was reduced from two games to one. This appears to have been a deliberate effort by the...
Week 7: Vikings at Giants (video) The Arkansas Association of High School Officials gets it. The NFL does not. If you are an official at any...
After delivering two illegal hits with his helmet, Washington safety Brandon Meriweather has two weeks to think about it, assuming he can still remember the blows...
Week 7: Patriots at Jets Update: The rule change is included here, which we identified as a point of emphasis, not a rule change. However, it...
NFL vice president of officiating Dean Blandino narrates the weekly media tape on calls from the previous week, which can be downloaded here. Several unusual calls...
Carl Cheffers, seen here at a game last season, will bring his crew to Indianapolis for Sunday Night Football. The crews headed by Mike Carey and...
Football Zebras Roundtable We asked our officiating roundtable to review the Patriots game-winning touchdown for a possible holding foul and a Washington punt with an interesting...
An abbreviated list of news from Week 6 games. Quick calls [Football Zebras] Multiple offsetting dead-ball fouls in 49ers-Cardinals game [Mike Pereira, Fox] Saints fans are...
We have some leftover items from Week 5, so let’s serve them up before their expiration dates pass. Bengals lost timeout Prior to a Bengals 3rd-and-goal...
The crews of Jerome Boger and Bill Vinovich are off this week. A huge assist this week from Football-refs.com in compiling the list. Thursday, Oct. 10...
Football Zebras Roundtable We had a few calls this week that were borderline judgement calls. How close were they? Former NFL officiating supervisors Jim Daopoulos and...
Dean Blandino, the NFL vice president of officiating, has the breakdown of a few calls in his “Official Review” segment on NFL Network: The Seahawks recovery...
U Dan Ferrell blamed for calls outside his keys Panthers wide receiver Steve Smith has a complaint about a specific official he would like everyone to...
The replay officials are now under collective bargaining agreement through 2020, having worked the first four weeks of the season on an expired deal. Replay officials...
Image: Dallas Cowboys photo First, our quick calls [Football Zebras] The pink penalty flags did cause some confusion with the players’ pink towels, all symbolic for...
Through Week 4 games For reference, the percentage of calls challenged by the replay officials is shown. Obviously, the replay official does not lose a challenge...