Tag Archives: Mike Carey

Catching up: Pereira gives high praise to wild card crews

Posted on January 11, 2013 by Mark Schultz

Former NFL vice president for officiating and current Fox Sports officiating expert, Mike Pereira, gave high marks to the wild card crews.  Pereira says even though the officials had many difficult calls to make, the officials got them right and … Continue reading →

Ridiculous red-flag rule burden on referee

Posted on January 5, 2013 by Ben Austro

Week 17: Packers at Vikings Fortunately, there are likely only 11 more games where the rule for prohibited coach’s challenges is in effect. The Competition Committee is all but certain to modify the rule in the offseason. Basically, the rule … Continue reading →

Our playoff predicitions: Steratore ranks high, Wild Cards include Hochuli, Corrente

Posted on January 2, 2013 by Football Zebras.com staff

We have chosen our assignments for the referee position only, not the entire crew. This year, all officials are assigned on individual merit, and not by the cumulative rank of the crew (see our post for the full playoff assignment criteria). Gene Steratore, considered by us to be one of the frontrunners in postseason assignments, conducts the coin flip at the Rams-Bills game in Buffalo. Continue reading →

Who are the next white hats?

Posted on October 3, 2012 by Mark Schultz

The NFL officiating staff is heavy on experience which is great news.  The flip side to this is that we will be seeing a higher than average number of officials retiring in the next one to three years. While there … Continue reading →

Bears punt fake-out outfaked by penalty

Posted on September 27, 2011 by Ben Austro

Week 3: Packers at Bears 4th quarter | 1:09 remaining | video. The Packers and Bears have played each other 183 times, dating back to 1921. Surely this series has seen it all. No one saw that Bears returner Johnny … Continue reading →