[Football Zebras] conference championship referees
footballzebras.com/2020/01/corrente-and-husse...Posted Jan 13, 2020, 9:07 PM UTC
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Corrente for AFC and Hussey for NFC
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I don’t recognize either name so that’s a good thing, right?
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These are the two best refs IMO. Too bad neither will be working the Super Bowl this season.
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Inb4 Boger
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Who is?
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Walt Anderson or Clete Blakeman
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Corrente was the ref during the chiefs titans matchup earlier in the year.
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I may need to re-watch but I don't remember any terrible calls there.
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There was that one fumble where tannehill was loosely covering the ball that I thought counted as clear possession. I know a lot of chiefs fans were upset about the blocked field goal at the end.
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I have heard Corrente's name before and have no memory of any of the NFC refs. AFC sounds worse.
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Breakdown of each of the refs thanks to this fantastic post https://www.reddit.com/r/nfl/comments/elcvja/oc_penalties_called_in_the_2019_nfl_regular_season/ by u/TroublesomeKangaroo
Tony Corrente - Above average unnecessary roughness penalties, above average holding penalties, more likely to call OPI than average while less likely to call DPI than average, high procedural penalties (are usually clearcut), below average roughing the passer calls, overall more penalties called than average.
For the Chiefs/Titans with Corrente, I feel like he's just a solid ref all around, but he'll catch whatever happens on the field, so having a lot of discipline is important. The Chiefs had a few more penalties than the Titans, so the Titans have the advantage there.
Also the Titans rarely get called for OPI but get more DPI calls than the Chiefs, so that's something else that favors them with Corrente. And the Chiefs having much, much more defensive holding penalties doesn't help them here.
John Hussey - A lot of unnecessary roughness penalties, most conduct based penalties in the league, much more likely to call OPI than average while less likely to call DPI than average, less likely to call holding, overall less penalties than average
Hussey for us sounds like it'll be good, seems like he's more likely to let a defense play which I appreciate, but I don't like ticky tacky unnecessary roughness or conduct based penalties, so just hoping none of those come in.
The Niners getting called for OPI very rarely while getting more DPI calls are in a similar boat to the Titans where the ref's relative bias to call OPI more should hurt the Packers more. The Niners have gotten a little more holding calls aginst them, so that should help them too.
TL;DR - Solid refs all around, Titans and 49ers should be happy with the ref assignments more than the Chiefs and Packers.
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Does anyone know the history of these refs and the crews? For example holding calls, DPIs, etc...
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The crews are different so those numbers aren't really relevant
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Likely Blakeman or Anderson for the Super Bowl
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Blakeman
Okay now we really need to beat San Fran
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I dunno about that one, he did call the fumble to have "no clear recovery".
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Blakeman if the packers make it?
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They usually announce the SB crew this week, so this weekend's games won't effect it
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I hope it’s not Blakeman. He has been one of the worst officials in football this year. Specifically on roughing the passer he has thrown a few flags for some weak sauce hits.
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Hope Vinovich gets it instead.
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surprised no hochuli, I thought that crew did the best this weekend
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They don't work 2 weeks in a row, and he was never going to get a CC in his first year being playoff eligible
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How is hussey?
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He's usually good.
But he was the one who screwed up the 10 second runoff way back on MNF in week one.
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Hussey's bank account just got a little...packed.
All owners make sure to deposit the requisite $3.50
I thought we double it now that we're in the playoffs?
Shit no wonder they fucked us on that fumble
Make sure to send triple for this weekend to make up for it
Goddamn Loch Ness Monster
It's actually really awesome that the NFL announces this so early in the week to give us a chance to get the check in the mail in time... and just before my paycheck hits on the 15th too!
Venmo dude