Tag Archives: Rich Eisen

Week 11 “Official Review”: Never-ending game, 2 more errors on replay reviews

Posted on November 29, 2009 by Ben Austro

This week’s “Official Review” from the NFL head of officiating Mike Pereira has one less play under scrutiny than usual (three, rather than four). That doesn’t leave us shortchanged, as there are multiple levels of discussion on two plays (video, … Continue reading →

Week 7 “Official Review”: Replay blows fuse, protecting striped shirts from hits

Posted on October 28, 2009 by Ben Austro

Only two items on this week’s “Official Review” with the league’s vice-president of officiating, Mike Pereira. Usually, we have a web-only video to go along with the NFL Network segment, but we only have one segment this week (video). We … Continue reading →

Week 5 “Official Review”: Fair-catch interference, fumbled fumbles, ‘fishy’ call

Posted on October 16, 2009 by Ben Austro

This week’s “Official Review” by league vice-president of officiating, Mike Pereira, featured several interesting plays from Week 5, leading to a lot of discussion here (video, Part 1 and Part 2): As pointed out in our comments, there was a … Continue reading →

Week 3 “Official Review”: Taunting, OPI, pleas for PylonCam

Posted on October 3, 2009 by Ben Austro

As done in previous weeks, there is a two-part “Official Review,” one for NFL Network and one for NFL.com. The topics were not nearly controversial this week for the league’s vice president of officiating, Mike Pereira: 49ers defensive back Shawntae … Continue reading →

Week 1 “Official Review” on NFL Net: Phantom contact call, fair catch signals

Posted on September 16, 2009 by Ben Austro

This season’s first “Official Review” on the NFL Network signature program NFL Total Access offers us a double dip from the league’s vice president of officiating, Mike Pereira. In addition to the cablecast segment (video), we were treated to a … Continue reading →