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Week 12

THU, NOV 26
Green Bay at Detroit – Bill Leavy
Oakland at Dallas – Carl Cheffers
NY Giants at Denver – Tony Corrente

SUN, NOV 29
Tampa Bay at Atlanta – Walt Anderson
Miami at Buffalo – Jeff Triplette
Cleveland at Cincinnati – Mike Carey
 Arizona at Tennessee – Terry McAulay
Seattle at St. Louis – Scott Green
Chicago at Minnesota – Walt Coleman
Carolina at NY Jets – Jerome Boger
Washington at Philadelphia – Gene Steratore
Indianapolis at Houston – Al Riveron
Kansas City at San Diego – Don Carey
Jacksonville at San Francisco – John Parry
Pittsburgh at Baltimore – Ed Hochuli

MON, NOV 30
New England at New Orleans – Pete Morelli

Comments

  4. 9er fan, every referee gets two bye weeks he will have another bye week and that info about Cheffers was posted by the Dallas Cowboys beat writer earlier today(at least that is where I saw it).

    • i know they all get 2 weeks off, but i find it strange that some refs get, for instance weeks 3 and 8 off, and cheffers’ byes are, at least 10 weeks apart…

  5. I will go out on a limb(I have no inside information) and say that Chefferes will be off after the Thanksgiving game so they get the extra rest.

    This year D.Carey’s two bye weeks were 6 & 10, Corrente were 7&9, Leavy’s were 5&8, Parry’s were 4&8, Riveron’s were 6&10, and Steratore’s were 5&9.

  9. was at the pats game yesterday and was chatting with an official on jeff triplette’s crew and he thought they were doing the dolphins/bills game this week. dont know why he wasnt 100% sure but makes sense as Triplette hasnt done a Miami or Buffalo game all year.

  10. 9 er fan It’s possible that the refs request about having a designated week off. (of course that would pertain to the entire crew getting the week off as well) Maybe that is why there is” inconsistency” such as Cheffer’s byes being so far apart. Maybe seniority plays a role in it as well

    • requests are possible, but i don’t think seniority would take effect. Cheffers is new, but he isn’t the newest. (Don Carey is the rookie this year)

      and sometimes the whole crew doesn’t get off…i remember a few weeks ago when McAulay had off, his HL was with Winter’s crew

  12. I may be wrong about this but I think I saw somewhere that the officals for each game are decided by a computer. The refs are told what games they are working about a month in advance so they can make flight plans. The NFL doesn’t release the information that far out because of the Tim Donaghy(?SP) situation.

  19. Regarding bye weeks for officials:

    If there are no substitutions, there will be one crew each year that gets only one bye week. This is because there are 256 games, and 17 crews working 15 weeks only covers 255 games.

  20. In 2008, Ron Winters’ crew had only one bye week. Ed Hochuli as an individual covered for Walt Anderson one week, while Al Riveron and Bill Carollo each covered for Mike Carey, but their crews had two bye weeks.

  21. In 2007, Ed Hochuli’s crew had only one bye week. Gerald Austin, Bill Carollo, Terry McAuley, and Gene Steratore all filled in on Bill Leavy’s crew when he was out.

  23. Does anyone know why Bill Vinovich has to retire at such a young age? He was also a PAC 10 college basketball referee. Such a shame as Bill was a great official in both sports and had a great personality.

      • eric,
        The only thing I’ve ever seen on this is that he had to leave the field due to undisclosed health reasons. He did serve as Hochuli’s replay official in 2007, although he is not this year.

    • I know what happened to Bill Vinovich…. He had back pain in 2006/2007, but when he went in to get his health checked out they found out he had a heart condition.

      So this kept him from the NFL Field & like Mike mentioned he became Hochuli’s Replay guy in 2007. From that date on I do not know what happened to him.

      • Bill Vinovich is the Western Regional Supervisor of Officials for the National Football League. After six years on the field in the NFL, three as Side Judge and three as Referee, he was forced to retire due to cardiovascular health issues. After working as a Replay Official for the 2007 season, he joined the office as a Supervisor for the 2008 season

  28. Did anyone see that as MNF was ending it appeared that Referee Boger gave Vince Young a “HIGH 5”. True to their way of covering their backsides. The NFL (NoFunLeague) made a statement the Referee Boger was making the proper administrative signal that the play a kneel down by Vince Young was over. However, before Referee Boger could lower his hand Vince Young completed the “HIGH5”.

  32. It makes sense that Walt Coleman is in Minnesota this week as he is the keynote speaker at an Agriculture conference in South Dakota next Tuesday. Look forward to hearing him speak.

  38. My guess as to which ref is doing which of the remaining four games:Clv-Cinn, Car-NyJ, Wash-Phil, Jacks-SF and the remaining referees : Parry, Winter, Anderson, Steratore and Boger. Either Boger or Winter will probably be off based on the other refs already had two byes. My guess is that either Winter or Boger would draw the bye of course and either one would draw the Carolina-Jets game besides neither has done one of those teams games. Anderson would do Jacks-SF, Parry would do Clv-Cinn and Steratore would do Wash-Phil. I based this upon researching the games they all have worked so far. There is a chance though that Parry could work Jack-SF and Anderson can do Wash-Phil AND Steratore can do Clv-Cinn. We shall see

  40. Here’s some upcoming info for Scott Green crew:

    Thurs, Dec 3 in Toronto (Jets vs. Buffalo)
    Sun Dec 13 in Minnesota (vs. Cincinatti)
    Sun, Dec 20 in Tennesee (vs. Miami)

  44. Kudos to the NFL for giving Ed Hochuli the Ravens-Steelers game. In doing so, I am certain poor officiating won’t mar this rivalry for once. Ed Hochuli is the best the league has to offer.

  45. I think Hochuli has the best presence of any official on the field….but is he the best? That is debatable. 9er fan points out McAulay who is good. I like the new guy Cheffers too though

  46. As quiet as it’s kept, Gene Steratore, Carl Cheffers and John Parry call a very good game. I can tolerate almost all of the head refs except:

    Walt Coleman. . he has been shaky in my book since the “infamous tuck rule”.

  47. Triplette refd the Jets Ne game last week and the Dal -GB game the week before both shown here in the NY area and both games had timeout and challenge controversies

  51. Hochuli dodged a bullet, if that Baltimore FG had been good he would have been in trouble. In the final 2:00 of the second or fourth quarters you cannot advance a fumble unless you recover it. The ball should have been spotted at around the 42 yard line where Flacco revocerd it. I understand that with no Balt timeouts and running their FG unit on but someone on the crew should have realized it or the replay official should have buzzed down and had Hochuli change the spot.

  52. But Pittsburgh would have been mad if the officials stopped play to allow Baltimore more time to get their FG team on the field. It seems like refs get blamed for everything these days. Everyone needs an excuse if they lose a game. Sure the officials make a mistake here and there but overall they do a very good job. I wish the posters on here would quit bashing the officials so much.

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