Jerry Jones has a novel concept: He thinks Penalties must be referred to as “equally” and customarily even out for each groups throughout a sport. However is that sensible and even the precise factor to do?

You be the choose.

Throughout an interview on 105.3 The Fan in Dallas this week, the Cowboys proprietor and normal supervisor spoke about his group’s current win over the San Diego Chargers, which he apparently felt was officiated in a really perfect method.

“Penalties are an enormous a part of this,” Jones defined on Friday. “Typically, in a given sport, if the officiating is ‘what’s good for the goose, good for the gander,’ is identical for each side, offense [and] protection, then you actually haven’t had a sport final result change. And that one the opposite day [against the Chargers], all of us obtained it equally.”

Within the Chargers-Cowboys sport on Monday evening, the Chargers have been hit for 9 penalties for 79 yards, and the Cowboys have been assessed 11 penalties for 85 yards.

Who can argue with this, proper?

This would really be the perfect. If each groups are assessed penalties at or about the identical quantity and severity, then officiating isn’t an element within the sport, which is what everybody desires.

Right here’s the issue: What if each groups aren’t committing penalties on the identical degree?

To have fairness in penalty distribution – ethically – each groups must commit them on the identical degree, which isn’t all the time the case. So, what would the referee be left to do on this scenario? Begin issuing penalties to the opposite aspect simply to even them out? That’s clearly a horrible concept and never an actual answer both.

However, Jones’ feedback communicate to a higher sense of dissatisfaction that’s prevalent amongst not solely followers but in addition, apparently, Corridor of Fame house owners of one of many league’s hottest franchises, and that’s that officers are enjoying far too massive a task in figuring out the result of the sport. A second level in Jones’ feedback is also the assertion that penalties will not be being referred to as equally.

That can also be one thing that’s felt by followers.

Anybody who has watched the Kansas Metropolis Chiefs play soccer this yr has seen this. Whether or not it’s Jawaan Taylor getting away with a number of unlawful formation penalties in the course of the Chiefs’ Week 1 sport towards the Lions or the horrific calls made each time Patrick Mahomes throws an interception. It looks like Mahomes can not throw a decide with out some form of infraction towards the opposite group.

Up to now, this has been thought of barroom speak. Followers of jilted groups sharing “warfare tales” of how their group was robbed by refs and money-hungry NFL executives who “hate their group.” However now, with Jones’ feedback, whether or not he supposed to impart this sentiment or not, he reveals that these points are acknowledged and felt even on the league’s highest ranges.

Will something change?

In all probability not, at the least not instantly. NFL officiating rivals CNN and Congress by way of reputation. It’s the worst on this 47-year-old soccer fan’s lifetime. However we don’t want officiating fairness. We’d like the penalties officers name to be assessed in an equal trend, not an analogous quantity.

Move interference must be referred to as the very same method, irrespective of who the quarterback is. However it’s time for the league to start discovering methods to restrict the affect of referees on the sport.

Nobody pays to observe them.