Playoffs/Super Bowl
Wild Card Weekend
NY Jets at Cincinnati – Bill Leavy
Philadelphia at Dallas – Ed Hochuli
Baltimore at New England – Gene Steratore
Green Bay at Arizona – Scott Green
Divisional Playoffs
Arizona at New Orleans – Ron Winter
Baltimore at Indianapolis – Carl Cheffers
Dallas at Minnesota – Walt Anderson
NY Jets at San Diego – Jerome Boger
Conference Championships
NY Jets at Indianapolis – Tony Corrente
Minnesota at New Orleans - Pete Morelli
Pro Bowl
NFC at AFC – Jeff Triplette
Super Bowl
New Orleans at Indianapolis – Scott Green
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Well in the past, there have been 10 different refs in the first three rounds, with one of those 10 also getting the Super Bowl. If I had to choose the best 10, I’d go with Walt Anderson, Mike Carey, Carl Cheffers, Tony Corrente, Ed Hochuli, Bill Leavy, Terry McAulay, John Parry, Gene Steratore, and Jeff Triplette. I’d like to see Steratore do the SB, but he probably has not been a referee long enough yet.
I agree with your ten, but might drop Leavy or Triplette in favor of Morelli – he is good, just has a rubbish crew, much like MCarey
Leavy is good and Triplette I agree is off, put either Morelli or Riveron.
I like MIke Carey’s crew
Jan
maybe my opinion
Walt Anderson
Pete Morelli
Ron Winter
Mike Carey
Scott Green
Mickey,
You have Philadelphia @ Green Bay —-> Should be Philadelphia VS Dallas Cowboys.
Figured I’d point this out before someone starts an argument over it… Cincinnati is spelled incorrectly.
Guy’s we shall see if this is true or not but a buddy of mine who works for the Boston Globe found out that Jerome Boger has the Ravens/Patriots game on Sunday. It makes sense as he has not done a Ravens game all year and did one Patriots game in London England vs Tampa Bay. I will let you know when this is confirmed in writing.
Tim…………. New England/Tampa Bay in London….was done by G. Steratore
My bad Tim you are correct it was J.Boger
Guys:
Boger did BAL/ATL in preseason…
Post-season does not make a difference on what teams each crew worked in the regular season. Like the teams, everything is reset to zero.
Playoff assignments come out officially on Wednesday. Spoke with an official about it today.
Where are they, its Wednesday?
I made the two corrections to the mistakes I made above. Sorry about that, was in a bit of a rush when I did it and first time making a new page on here since I started helping Mickey.
Hopefully, Ron Winter and his crew will reflect on their abysmal season by watching better crews work the post season!
I disagree with Lens rude comments about Winter and his crew. I thought they had a very good season and deserve a playoff game.
Candace, Winter did not have an overall good season. Regardless of fighting over his work, it can easily be concluded he is not one of the ten best officials.
You obviously missed his performances in New England and Pittsburgh!
Walt Anderson will be calling the Super Bowl. It only makes sense
Disgusted in Cleveland, You have to let that go. If that is honestly the only thing you have to say anout Walt then stop osting, we understand you are angry about it, but its not like it cost the Browns the game or anything. Give it a rest. Anderson is a great official who is due to the ref the super bowl and I hope he gets it this year.
should say about instead of anout and posting instead of osting
Russ: thanks for your good information. Hope you inform us for next week games.
Your welcome Joe,
I hope to find as much information as I can and if all goes well, I should know next week’s assignments by Thursday or Friday.
Triplette and Morelli will get playoff assignments this year. Veteren refs unless they really mess up dont miss back to back playoffs. Both refs were solid this year. I really hate how everyone busts on Triplette.
Triplette takes a beating, true, but so does Morelli. You’re right, both are fine officials. People who are ref bashers make me sick. I wish more people would realize that the standard for correctness for officials in the NFL is 97.5%. I’d like to see whether all those critics of NFL officiating meet that standard in their own jobs.
I do too, I think Morelli is top tier, and Triplette is pretty good too, I also agree that Walt Anderson should get the SuperBowl he is due for one.
is Tony Corrente officiating the Bengals game?
As long as Walt Anderson does not officiate any Ravens games.
Not because of Walt, but because of his head linesmen, phil mckinnely.
Its safe to say that there will be a new crew for Ravens-Patriots this time around. That first game they treated Tom Brady like a queen in a skirt rather than a quarterback. Baltimore outplayed the Pats in week 4 but cheap roughing the passer calls decided the game. Tom Brady should not get special treatment.
FYI.. It was Winter’s crew who did BAL-NE first time ’round…
We know. And it would be a shame to have them officiate a game between the same two teams in the playoffs. This game actually has the potential to be very entertaining/competitive. I, personally, don’t want to see it decided by the officials.
I’m pulling for Hochuli to get this game. He’s not perfect(no official is), but he certainly doesn’t have a vendetta against the Ravens like quite a lot of other officials.
FYI guys, when I type something in as an administator of the site, it will come up in a blue/tan box.
I have replaced the comment in question with ***s.
Mickey asked me to assist him with posting information and writing some stories on here, not in policing what people have for comments. I am going to speak with him and see what his thoughts are in regards to this.
If we removed every comment that had anything negative in it, we would be eliminating alot of them. So where would the line be drawn? People have different opinions of what is vulgar and what is not as you can obviously see.
Yes the NFL Officials work at a very high rate of correctness, but no one notices the correct calls, only the bad ones or the ones they think are bad. This is where discussion comes from. If everyone thought that the officials all did a great job there would be nothing to talk about.
If we want all the negativity and poor choice of words removed, 10 of the above comments would get the axe. I agree that people should try to act like adults, but I don’t know if we want to become the language police. I will speak to Mickey and see what he recommends.
Thanks again for everyone’s interest in the site. Looking forward to the playoffs.
Just spoke with Mickey, foul/abusive language will be edited out and removed, along with all corresponding comments regarding said language.
As you’ll notice most of the above comments have been removed regarding the inappropriate word.
Wow. I like to use this site for referee knowledge and some good laughs. I have never even posted till now. I have read nothing offensive in any of these comments. Never seen people make a big deal over nothing. I am done using this site and will go by real websites for official assignments.
When do they get posted?? Any ideas for the first four??
Roy,
The inappropriate comments have been removed already.
Thanks
NY Jets at Cincinnati – Green
Philadelphia at Dallas – M. Carey
Baltimore at New England – Winter
Green Bay at Arizona – Boger
that has to be a guess…a bad one though…Green is no way getting a playoff game and Winter already had New England/ Baltimore
Matt, Green was the referee for the Packers/Cardinals game.
Wow, thanks for the straight-up lie.
NY Jets at Cincinnati – Corrente
Philadelphia at Dallas – Steratore
Baltimore at New England – Boger
Green Bay at Arizona – Riveron
is that confirmed dan?
Are either of the above confirmed?
Hochuli is in Dallas, here is the conformation.
http://cowboysblog.dallasnews.com/archives/2010/01/officials-breakdown—ed-hochuli.html
That is the first confirmation though
Hochuli has been updated, thanks Adam!
I believe the NFL under Goodell has changed its pattern for choosing the Super Bowl ref. Before, it used to be one of the Wild Card Weekend refs. The past few years, it appears to have been one of the Divisional (second) rounders.
If I’m wrong, someone set me straight, but I believe that’s what has happened.
– Joey P
not true…they try to mix them up between first and second round in hopes of avoiding having officials work one of the Super Bowl teams twice in the post season.
That appears to be the pattern from the last couple of years. McAuley had a divisional round game last year and MCarey had one the year previous.
I have been trying to get the Packers dope sheet downloaded, but it keeps saying file has been damaged.
The referee assignment is not posted on the dope sheet.
The NFL picks its Super Bowl crews by a year-long rating system. Every official is analyzed on every play during the course of 15 games (each ref has two weeks off during the season). The highest rated Referee at the end of the regular season gets the super bowl. Same with each of the highest rated position officials. The NFL’s VP of Officiating, Mike Pereira, has confirmed this process on NFL Network’s “Official Review” segment many times.
This rating system is also used to determine the playoff crews. But for the wild card, and I think divisional rounds too, the entire crew is selected, not just position officials. So while one Referee may be the highest ranked, and will get the super bowl, his crew may not have been ranked as high and could be in either the wild card or divisional round.
I believe the above is accurate, but feel free to correct me if I’m wrong.
Sounds pretty accurate, but some of the refs only get 1 week of per season. (3 i think, maybe 2?)
not quite. the highest rated official at each position may not qualify for post season or the Super Bowl. Also, highest rated two years in a row does not get two straight Super Bowls. So, you could have highest rated crew members doing Conference Championships.
Great Plains,
There was one comment on here in regards to Walt Anderson, it did not involve vulgarity or innappropriate language. Would the posters on this board like to see me remove any negative comments towards all the officials? I will certainly do so if that’s what the people that visit the site would prefer.
If you have an opinion on this, please send it to my email, mlevbb23@yahoo.com. I will remove responses that are posted on the board here in regards to this.
Thanks,
Mike
Who is doing the Bengals game at PBS?
Complaints about officials has a whole lot more to do with this site’s purpose than all of these posts complaining about other posts.
The ONLY reason you would care about which officials are officiating certain games is because you feel a certain way about certain officials and their crews.
Otherwise, you wouldn’t have any reason to search for who is officiating the games.
It seems clear to me that most posters are in favor of removing blatant bashing of the officials and keeping this site to discuss the officials, assignments, calls, etc. in a mature manner.
I started helping Mickey just a month or two ago, so I’m learning as I go here in terms of what everyone wants to get out of this site. I will try to police the comments more in the future.
Thanks for your input.
Mike
Can confirm:
Leavy at CIN
Hochuli at DAL
Steratore at NE
Green at AZ
Parry an ALT
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the selection of ed hochuli 4 the iggels-cowboys game does not bid well 4 the cowboys. hochuli crew’s last year officiated the pre-season game of the cowboys-broncos game-cowboys, loss. After p.t. bartum (jerry jones), made a big noise about hochuli’s crew screw ups in the first chargers game @ mile high at Investco Field, hochuli’s crew got payback, when they was assignment to the ravens-cowboys game. hopefully, ed and p.t bartum (jerry jones) made peace, if not, i expect the cowboys 2 b heavily penalize or flags being throw at the most unsupected time of the game (when the cowboys are moving to score or behind and heading for the go ahead score), and probably lose this game, because of ed being shown up by jones, last season. what do you all think?
I hope Ron Winter is one of the playoff referees
The only reason I’m surprised about Steratore and Parry is because I thought an official had to be in their position for a certain number of years before being eligible in that role for the postseason, though apparently I’m wrong. On merit, they totally deserve playoff assignments. Am I right in assuming that officials are paid more for working playoff games? Does the pay increase for working a championship game versus a wild card game?
hey. I believe that they have to wait a certain number of years before reffing the SB, but playoffs is not restricted…apart from rookie refs (making don carey the only ineligible)
both parry and steratore had assignments last year too
So they did! I stand corrected. But, is it only the officials who work the division championships (not conference championships) who are eligible for the Superbowl?
I believe that is the trend now, however, back in the 05-06 season, Leavy reffed WC weekend, and then he had the Hawks-Steelers SuperBowl.
Also, McAulay hasn’t missed playoffs since 03-04 season as a head referee. (He became a ref at the beginning on 01-02 season)
Vet, how did you get this info? No where online have I seen refs listed this weekend. Only Dallas Morning News has Hochuli.
NO surprise here on the wild-card choices for officials..ALL of them deserve it…Well qualified
Scott Green deserves it? I think not.
Scott Green had his best season since being promoted to referee. The NFL is rewarding him on a solid season.
his best season still doesnt make him one of the top 10 though, and we still have yet to see confirmation on anyone other than hochuli in dallas. steratore, green and leavy haven’t been confirmed
All you crybabies who think refs don’t deserve a playoff game b/c they blow a call that you happened to catch on tv 1 time can shut up and stop making yourself look like morons b/c you’re prob just disappointed your team didn’t make the playoffs and it wouldn’t have mattered who was reffing at the time b/c your team wasn’t tough enough in the first place. Refs make mistakes, as you do too. So realize what exactly your talking about and know you have nothing to back it up with b/c you couldn’t have done any better.
Crews for Saturday:
Jets@Bengals
Referee- Bill Leavy
Umpire- Darrell Jenkins (Leavy)
HL- Mark Baltz (Leavy)
LJ- Mark Peralman (Leavy)
SJ- Joe Larrew (Boger)
BJ- Kieth Ferguson (leavy)
FJ- Clete Blakeman (Leavy)
ALT HL- Dana McKenzie (D.Carey)
ALT FJ- Doug Rosenbaum (Boger)
Eagles@Cowboys
Referee- Ed Hochuli
Umpire- Jeff Rice (Coleman)
HL- George Hayward (M.Carey)
LJ- Tim Podraza (Hochuli)
SJ- Barry Anderson (Hochuli)
BJ- Kirk Dornan (Hochuli)
FJ- Craig Wrolstad (Hochuli)
ALT LJ- Mike Spanier (Triplette)
ALT FJ- Mike Weir (D.Carey)
Crews for Sunday:
Ravens@ Patriots
Referee- Gene Steratore
Umpire- Tony Michalek (Steratore)
HL- Jerry Bergman (Steratore)
LJ- Jeff Seeman (Steratore)
SJ- Mike Weatherford (Steratore)
BJ- Bob Waggoner (Steratore)
FJ- Greg Gautreaux (Steratore)
ALT Referee- John Parry
ALT BJ- Tony Steratore (Boger)
Packers@Cardinals
Referee- Scott Green
Umpire- Butch Hannah (Green)
HL- Tom Stabile (Green)
LJ- Tom Symonette (Green)
SJ- Larry Rose (Green)
BJ- Lee Dyer (Green)
FJ- Boris Cheek (Green)
ALT Umpire- Richard Hall (Morelli)
ALT BJ- Terrence Miles (D.Carey)
Lee Dyer is from Riveron’s crew, not Green
Steratore’s lucky in that he’s bringing his entire crew along!
Also Cheek is from Triplette’s crew not Green.
If you’re an alternate for this round, does that mean this is your only playoff assignment?
The only possibility of you working on the field is in the Super Bowl and that is very unlikely. I am surprised Parry did not qualify for the playoffs.
He’s an alternate, does that not count as a playoff assignment?
Also I thought Tony Steratore was one of the NFL’s top back judges, I guess he didn’t have a great season this year?
just looking at the alternates for this weekend, I would assume that Boger will not get an assignments, unless he gets conference where its an all-star crew, because a lot of his crew seems to be in use this weekend. Also, I would think Parry won’t get an assignment since he is alternate, which sucks cuz he is pretty good.
10 best reffs in my opinion are
John Parry
Mike Carey
Bill Leavy
Walt Colmen
Why do they mix the crews for the playoffs? Wouldn’t it make more sense to use the full crew that has been working together all year?
Replay Officials:
Jets@Bengals-Jim Lapetina (Morelli)
Eagles@Cowboys- Howard Slavin (Corrente)
Ravens@Patriots- Bob Boylston (Triplette)
–Believe it or not, the Replay officials count as a part of the crew, so this eliminates Corrente for next week also.
This should mean the crews next week are:
Anderson
Cheffers
McAulay
Winter
if that is true, then this is whats possible for Superbowl:
Generally, but not always, one of the 4 divisional weekend refs, is the SuperBowl ref also, SO:
that means that most likely, Anderson, Winter or McAulay gets SB, seeing as Cheffers is too new. McAulay had it last year, leaving WInter or Anderson. God help us all if its Winter, but I’ve been wanting Anderson all year, he deserves it
This indicates to me that Corrente will get one of the Conference Championship games. He very well could be one of the top 3 rated at the Referee position which is the normal criteria for the Conference Championship game officials.
This also means to me that Anderson is without a doubt the favorite to the Super Bowl.
Replay Official for Packers@Cardianls was Dick Creed (Green). Green was the only Referee who had his regular season replay official this round
I have to agree that Ron Winter has not had a good year! My top 10 refs are in the order below!
ED HOCHULI
MIKE CAREY
WALT COLEMAN
TERRY McAUALY
AL RIVERON
JEFF TRIPLETTE
JOHN PARRY
SCOTT GREEN
PETE MORELLI
TONY CORRENTE
GENE STERATORE
Not in any order, but I think that the top 8 overall (not just this year) are:
Steratore
Corrente
McAulay
Parry
Leavy
Hochuli
Morelli
Cheffers
I agree with your list for the most part, but I’d replace Morelli with Mike Carey.
I did leave Mike off didn’t I…I didn’t mean too, he is definitely good.
Yeah Russ, where did you manage to find all that information?
Best ref this week by far was Steratore, worst — well, its obvious i think…Scott Green had a terrible TERRIBLE game.
I agree, Green did not have a good game tonight. But I thought the officiating in all of the other games this weekend was good, for the most part.
next week predictions:
Arizona at New Orleans: Carl Cheffers or Jeff Triplette
Baltimore at Indianapolis: Tony Corrente
Dallas at Minnesota: Pete Morelli
Jets at San Diego: Walt Anderson
Mike Carey and Terry McAulay with the championship games and Ed Hochuli with Superbowl
Ron Winter or Walt Coleman with Pro Bowl
Members of Triplette’s, Corrente’s and Morelli’s crew all worked this week, so they’ll all be off most likely.
I like Cheffers and Anderson to work this week…
I think you are right with McAulay and Carey for Champs, and I think Anderson takes the SB….usually, a divisional round ref works the SB…
I give the Pro Bowl to Triplette
These are my predictions on who will be the referee for the following NFL Divisional Playoff games:
ARZ @ NO – Mike Carey
DAL @ MIN – Walt Anderson
BAL @ IND – Pete Morelli
NYJ @ SD – John Parry
Parry was an alternate this week, and members of Morelli’s crew reffed this week, most likely eliminating both of them
At least one of my predictions was right…Walt Anderson will indeed ref DAL @ MIN.
This site is great!
I think next week we will see:
Anderson Cheffers McAulay and Morelli
Morelli had crew working this week, but they can replace those with others…
for CC Week, I think Mike Carey and Corrente…and the SB should be Walt Anderson like everyone else is saying.
Pro Bowl — either Winter or triplette….
any ideas?
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