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Week 15

Thu. Dec. 16
49ers at Chargers, 8:20 PM – Clete Blakeman

Sun. Dec. 19
Bills at Dolphins, 1:00 PM – Jeff Triplette
Eagles at Giants, 1:00 PM – John Parry
Redskins at Cowboys, 1:00 PM – Al Riveron
Browns at Bengals, 1:00 PM – Jerome Boger
Jaguars at Colts, 1:00 PM – Mike Carey
Texans at Titans, 1:00 PM – Gene Steratore
Saints at Ravens, 1:00 PM – Walt Anderson
Chiefs at Rams, 1:00 PM – Ron Winter
Cardinals at Panthers, 1:00 PM – Tony Corrente
Lions at Buccaneers, 1:00 PM – Terry McAulay
Falcons at Seahawks, 4:05 PM – Walt Coleman
Broncos at Raiders, 4:15 PM – Scott Green
Jets at Steelers, 4:15 PM – Pete Morelli
Packers at Patriots, 8:20 PM – Ed Hochuli

Mon. Dec. 20
Bears at Vikings, 8:30 PM – Carl Cheffers

Comments

      • I am good friends with a retired NFC Referee who might be Dick Hantak. He told me three NFL Referee’s have already “resigned for various reasons for next season. He knew of two, Triplette, cause of his made knee or hip or whatever. The other is Cheffers, quite frankly because he can’t handle the microphone, not a bad official, just can’t handle the stage. Didn’t mention the third.

          • A few years ago, I considered Triplette’s crew as one of the top 3-5 in the league when he had crazy Jim Quirk at umpire. It’s all about his injuries, mobility is an issue. Larry Nemmers had a similar situation a few years ago, great rules official, game manager, but his wheels have him in the replay booth as opposed to wearing the white hat.

          • I wouldn’t be surprised if Ron Winter or Bill Leavy are the third party. Both are up there in age (Leavy is in his early 60s and Winter retired from his full time job at EMU recently), and neither one have been at the top of their game recently. I also wouldn’t be shocked if it’s Ed Hochuli; after the fumble debacle of two years ago, Hochuli hasn’t gotten the premier assignment he used to and his game has been off (no MNF until at least week 16?)

          • Bill Vinovich has worked D1 basketball game this year and I have heard, from a solid source, that he is trying to get back in the NFL so he very possibly could be one of the new referees. Also, I would guess that if Cheffers leaves the referee position he will move to another position.

        • If this happens, maybe they move Mike Carey’s brother back to referee???
          When was the last time the league had three new referee’s? That seems to be a big number…

        • I’ve spoken to a very well known source, and this person said they had not heard of either Cheffers or Triplette retiring. That being said, this person may not have the information you have.

          • I’ve spoken to a person that said he also heard of these 2 retirements and has a good feeling on the 3rd being one of the top refs in the game but he hasn’t made up his mind as of yet. His retirement has nothing to do with health or age. He wouldn’t name him to me because he’s not 100% yet.

          • No Jeff Triplette is not retiring, No Carl Cheffers is not moving to another position & No Ed Hochuli is not retiring. 2018 is his goal to retire.

  5. Eligible refs for the CHI @ MIN Monday night game are:

    Walt Anderson
    Carl Cheffers (he previously officiated those same two teams two years ago in the Windy City)
    Terry McAulay (he officiated a Monday night game back in week 3 in the Windy City against the Pack)
    Pete Morelli
    Alberto Riveron
    Ron Winter

    • Before you get your hopes up, Triplette definitely isn’t doing CAR@PIT next week, either. He’s not eligible to work CAR until Week 17, because he officiated CAR@CLE in Week 12.

  15. Also eligible for

    San Francisco @ San Diego
    Cleveland @ Cincinnati
    Buffalo @ Miami
    Detroit @ Tampa Bay
    Chicago @ Minnesota (or @ TCF Bank or @ Detroit or @ St. Louis or @ Indianapolis or wherever.)

    The crew can’t work more than 1 team’s home game IS A BUNCH OF BUNK.

    And, a crew can work a team this week if they worked them WEEK 10 OR BEFORE unless they worked games involving that team twice.

      • Under MP crews could not work the same divisional matchups not sure about Carl Johnson. Back in 2008 (I think) HOchuli worked the SD @ Denver game where he ruled the pass was incomplete instead of a fumble. MP was asked in an interview by Dan PAtrick if HOchuli would work the re-match in SD & he said it was in the rules that officials did not work both same divisional matchup. Like I said Carl Johnson may have changed this.

  21. John 2,

    This is according to Jerome Boger’s HL. I trust him, but I’m not sure of the rules against doing the same divisional game, etc. I’ll let you know if I hear of any change, but as for right now, Boger’s HL has told me CLE @ CIN.

  23. Also eligible for

    Washington at Dallas
    Detroit at Tampa Bay

    John Parry’s has worked 2 home game for the Giants last year and 2 home games for the Titans this year. So if anyone says this is a rule is WRONG. Furthermore, I think people here mixed rules with trends.

    • McAulay’s still eligible for…

      San Francisco @ San Diego
      Cleveland @ Cincinnati/Denver @ Oakland – (Not officially listed but word is Boger has Cleveland @ Cincinnati and if that’s the case, McAulay would become eligible for a 2nd Denver-Oakland game.)
      Detroit @ Tampa Bay
      Chicago @ Minnesota

      The only games an official are ineligible to work are teams a crew the previous 4 weeks or already worked twice.

  30. Mickey, per WBBM radio, Chicago, the Bears-Vikings game WILL be at U of MINN. stadium (outdoors) good ol’ Minnesota weather.
    I DON’T know the referee crew yet.

  33. I LOVE this website, but am new to understanding who is eligible to ref what. I’m a huge Eagles fan. Does anyone know who is left that is eligible to ref the Eagles / Giants Game?

    • To me, this makes no sense. For one thing, a PR person would know for certain who the referee was, and for certain which game. For another, the league informs referees of their precise schedule four weeks in advance, and deviates from it very rarely.

  43. So it’s down to Boger, Cheffers, Leavy, McAulay, Morelli and Parry. These are my predictions:

    PHI @ NYG – Parry
    CLE @ CIN – Leavy
    DET @ TB – McAulay
    NYJ @ PIT – Morelli
    CHI @ MIN – Cheffers
    OFF – Boger

  46. What is going on this year? We have refs doing games in the same city 2 times in the same year and now we have Boger doing a Browns/Bengals game 2 times in the same year. Why is this happening? I wonder will the old head of officials retiring the rules have changed.

  50. Once again Morelli and his crew called an absolutely horrible game. 4 times flags were thrown and then picked up with Morelli just saying “no foul on the play”. I don’t think I have seen that 4 times this whole season. Morelli is an ego-maniac that turns his back on obvious calls when it’s convenient.

  51. Believe it or not, Mike Carey and his crew had a terrible game in Indy with one of those that was also called a down over. No foul but replay the down for no apparent reason.

  52. Guys: What are your opinions of Blakeman so far this year? I think he’s one of the strongest first year refs in a long time. Also, can’t name the name but I’m told Triplette is definitely one of the retirees due to the hip

    • I have been VERY impressed with Blakeman! And yes, DeFelice is a great guy to have on a crew with a new referee. I hope the NFL uses this as an example that some of the top DI guys can make the transition to Sundays. I hope to see Scott Novak and some others make the move.

  53. That’s too bad-he’s my favorite. Interesting that he worked both Brown-Bengal games-I guess that’s allowed no-refs working both games of a divisional series.

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