Here’s the full list of officials for the games this week. As always, feel free to discuss any noteworthy calls in the comments below!
SUN, OCT 11
Cleveland at Buffalo – Jerome Boger
Pittsburgh at Detroit – Ed Hochuli
Dallas at Kansas City – Ron Winter
Minnesota at St. Louis – Don Carey
Oakland at NY Giants – John Parry
Tampa Bay at Philadelphia – Terry McAulay
Washington at Carolina – Walt Coleman
Cincinnati at Baltimore – Jeff Triplette
Atlanta at San Francisco – Pete Morelli
Jacksonville at Seattle – Scott Green
Houston at Arizona – Tony Corrente
New England at Denver – Carl Cheffers
Indianapolis at Tennessee – Walt Anderson
MON, OCT 12
NY Jets at Miami – Al Riveron
Does anyone know how officials are assigned to games? Do they have regional assignments, or certain team assignments, or random assignment anywhere in the country?
Random assignments anywhere in the country.
Tex
Tex is generally correct. However, referees that live in the west will be assigned more games there than those who live in the east and vice versa. For example, last year Mike Carey did games in San Francisco, Seattle, Oakland, San Diego, and Arizona, while Jeff Triplette only went to the west coast once, to Seattle. In the long run over the years, all referees go to all locations, but they don’t go cross-country as often.
By the way, Mike Carey lives in San Diego and Jeff Triplette lives in Charlotte, NC.
Regarding the Cincinnati vs Baltimore officiating.
Was it me or were some of those calls made on 2 4th downs to allow Cincinnati to fulfill’s its promise to Coach Zimmer kinda fishy?
If anything ask yourself a question, would most other crews make those same calls at those specific times in the game?
Also is it perhaps that Baltimore being more critical and voiciferous about the missed/disputed calls of NFL referrees that
makes their team more a target to what otherwise might be non-calls for other teams?
I would have to say that the officials were pretty upset in regards to the wya the Ravens complained about last week’s officiating. Word gets around from crew to crew in all sports regarding complainers.
Titans@Patriots-Gene Steratore
Thanks Russ! Page updated and a week 6 post coming momentarily.
Carl Cheffers already was assigned to Broncos games twice already. Opening game Denver at Oakland and this past week New engalnd at Denver
The opening game to which Cheffers was assigned was San Diego at Oakland, so he has only done one Broncos game.
Just to clarify a comment above, Jeff Triplette now lives in Oxford, MS.
De said:
“Just to clarify a comment above, Jeff Triplette now lives in Oxford, MS.”
Very interesting. Maybe that’s why Triplette worked a Carolina game this year. I believe it was his first Panthers game since something like 2001.