Redskins Coordinator Kyle Shanahan Chases Down and Abuses Replacement Ref after Loss
By Josh Hill
I get it, you don’t want to seem like an outsider and actually admit these refs aren’t as bad as they seem. The Wall Street Journal crunched the numbers and found that the replacements are actually officiating games the same if not better than the regular ones. Sure they fail the eyeball test but you’d never vote for Rosie O’Donnell in a Miss Universe contest even if she was the most qualified to win.
Mike Florio, in all his pom-pom defense of the NFL, blasted the WSJ audit saying it missed the point, but it’s he who is missing the point. The replacement refs aren’t deciding games, they aren’t throwing interceptions or causing fumbles and calls that determine games aren’t blown.
When it counts, the replacement refs get it right.
That’s not saying they should stick around forever, but they’re here for the time being and they deserve a certain amount of respect. If you ran down your administrator and verbally abused him for being an idiot — even if it’s true– you’d be out of a job faster than you could blink. I get it, the NFL is a macho sport and guys trying to get head coaching jobs and trying be one of the guys have to pretend they’re a tough guy.
Save that for the bedroom Kyle Shanahan, not the football field. Get a room and cry about it Bill Belichick, don’t grab an official like desperate fool. If these replacements refs are indeed so far beneath these coaches who rule the world in their minds, why are they so hellbent on letting them effect their coaching?
As Chris Collinsworth opined and observed last night, these teams just need to live with the fact that the replacement refs don’t know what they’re doing half the time and be professionals; adapt to your game or get out of it. Don’t chase them down a tunnel after games and verbally abuse them.
That’s not impressing anyone and reflects poorer on the NFL than all the blown calls replacements have made, combined.