Buffalo Bills reportedly hire John Parry as officiating liaison | Pro Football Talk | NFL on NBC

Mike Florio and Chris Simms break down a report that John Parry is stepping into an officiating liaison role with the Bills and explore if he could be the first of many officials to make the move. #NBCSports #ProFootballTalk #NFL
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[@lightweight1365]

One former ref works for the Bills and all the current refs work for the Chiefs.

[@justicestyles]

Lmao good one … like the worked for the Chiefs when the Bills defense couldn’t keep a lead with 13 seconds

[@unionash1]

Underrated comment

[@Fourwedge]

Excuses are like.. Yea you know the rest. If you really think it's fixed it really makes you dumb to be watching

[@JKSSubstandard]

​@@Fourwedgenot fixed per se. But there's definite favoritism. There was a Stat that came out last year that the chiefs had more plays extended by DPI or defensive holding than any other team by something like a factor of 2 or 3. They just got more drive extending calls than anyone else on passing plays and it wasn't remotely close. Same stuff that Brady used to get back in the day. Just for some reason, certain QBs get more calls by a margin that can't be explained by anomaly

[@Losttouchjs]

Well, they get backstage passes to Swifty concerts! What do you expect? 😂

[@drew5700]

As bills fan as I've been since 94, I've always had the thought of the bills winning 4 straight SBs sometime in the near future to avenge those 4 straight SBs losses, i think they're on their way

[@seanguitarman5594]

If there were ever, and I mean everrr, a chance for the Bills to pull off 4 straight Super Bowl victories, ...it would be in the Josh Allen era, to be sure!🦬

[@patrickfintak2048]

This years SB is going to be the Bills vs the Lions!!! Bills finally win one ☝️ 🎉🎉

[@lainey3815]

Go Bills!

[@ghhfgbbkufgh]

Chiefs say no sweetie, just no

[@atl126]

The bills are overrated trash 😂

[@spaz61]

@@atl126 troll

[@orphy6869]

@@atl126🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡

[@allensaunders449]

How can the NFL not have full time refs nuts

[@ianross806]

The other pro sports do, and the NFL is the biggest. Why do they have insurance salesmen working their games?

[@klardfarkus3891]

It is 20 out of 52 weeks.neven batter than reachers get. You want to pay someone full time to work for a third of a year? Submitting my application.

[@willgann]

@@klardfarkus3891 the NFL is worth billions, they can afford it, plus maybe we get better referees..

[@klardfarkus3891]

@@willgann poor people spend money when they have it. Billionaires don’t get to be billionaires by spending money just because they can.. it is ridiculous to have full time employees who work three hours on a few Sundays a year, workers in this country are expected to work eight h,ours a day five days a week.

[@MikeLandicovers]

@@klardfarkus3891 They can work on looking at film and refining their skillset in the offseason. They can perform virtual officiating to improve themselves. They can also workout to keep up with the speed of the game.

[@motogravel]

Steve Tasker gave his opinion of officiating on one of his shows last season. He said its essentially the same quality as its always been - not worse currently. The reason its such a focus these days is the 'success' of the NFL's parity goals. The games are much closer than ever and often can turn on one play, or one call by the refs. That's a great take, IMHO

[@seanguitarman5594]

Thank you for this, very good stand-back perspective that is easy to overlook... 👍

[@moose_tracks41]

The weirdest reffing moment in my life to date occurred in the 2019 Wild Card game against the Texans. After a kickoff ball was not downed and the Bills claimed it in the end zone and it was called a TD originally, but then some guy on the sideline took over the scene for a second, which led to the TD being overturned.

[@RandyMarsh0301]

That was definitely bizarre

[@OON7]

I will never forget that. Player just tossed the ball aimlessly without any signaling. NFL intervenes and overturns.

[@RandyMarsh0301]

​@@OON7he tossed it to the ref, but the ref backed away cause the ball was still live

[@SeiyaSoiya-un4jj]

Go back to the late 90s and look up the “just give it to them” game between Buffalo and New England. It’s one of the reasons instant replay was implemented.

[@moose_tracks41]

@@SeiyaSoiya-un4jj thanks for that suggestion! That was another infuriating outcome for the Bills and their fan base. Smh

[@JayGaux]

I agree the UFL is actually great with the transparency . The quality is up a lot since early USFL reboot prior to 2020

[@wingedbuffalo4670]

Florio, it's NOT a huge problem for the NFL. "IF" there is a concern about a game official near the end of his officiating career being perceived as "angling" to be hired as an officiating consultant by a particular team for which he has recently made several key favorable calls, there is an EASY FIX: the NFL simplay has to institute a "cooling off" period of time wherein teams can NOT hire a retired/former official unless/until he has ceased being a game official for at least a season or two. It's just like DoD contracting officers and defense system project managers (military and civilian) being lawfully PROHIBITED from employment at a lucrative defense firm for a year ... and also after leaving government service not being able to work for at least 2 years on the same or related project(s) for the contractor that they had worked on while in government service. That eliminates any concern over conflicts of interest. Easy fix.

[@JKSSubstandard]

Sean McDermott is cookin

[@jtmmmm27]

Nottingham Forest in the EPL tried the same thing with a guy called Mark Clattenburg this season and it did not end well...

[@conrailhbgline]

I was just about to comment this before I saw yours.

[@scottjarvis1974]

Its the head office that dosen't know tfe rules its not sean the regs dont kniw tge rules

[@MrDuds1984]

So when the Bills lose on challenges we’ll know who to blame

[@FlintGiven]

I would watch their hour video on the job of an NFL reff by the NFL (Throwback). There is a reason majority of things. Hard to argue with their process after watching that.

[@JConlon96]

I love this move for the Buffalo Bills

[@dirtyrandy2592]

I’m a diehard Bills fan, but McDermott needs help in this department for sure.

[@dannysmith716]

Mike McDaniel needs new glasses

[@nickwalters6649]

This isn’t the problem with Bills as much as game management and penalties extending drives against the defense. I can think of a whole seasons worth of games the Bills should have won over the years (13 seconds, missed kicks, special team errors like too many men on field, multiple kick return tds, phantom cb holding and offensive holding, pizza delivery guys catching hailmary’s with time running out). You have to be prepared to have your heart ripped out by this team even with a top QB. It will all be worth it if they win one finally though.

[@chrissnape9537]

Two of the three major sports in Europe, rugby and cricket, allow the TV audience to hear the conversation between the eye in the sky ref and on field ref or umpire. So you know why a call is made. It's easy to make money off of it. This challenge us brought to you by, fill in the blank. IE. The law firm of Whackit and Hackit

[@mathewdistefano2489]

We need more light shined on nfl referees putting their thumbs on the scales and affecting outcomes. That Detroit lions blown call against Dallas cost them the 1 seed and potentially a Super Bowl. It’s unforgivable and I’m not even a lions fan.

[@awill3454]

The Bills should do whatever the Eagles are doing to get 1 or 2 penalties against them while their opponent gets 10+ thrown against them.

[@thomasscott116]

Did somebody did somebody break your heart 😂😂😂 stay salty

[@awill3454]

@thomasscott116 Nah but unless youre a total homer Eagles fan, you could see that something ain’t right when the Dolphins had 11 penalties against them while the Eagles had 0 or the Bills had 10 called against them and the Eagles had just 1. In that broadcast they even kept showing replays of non calls against the Eagles. Im not an “NFL is scripted” conspiracy theorist, but even a rational Eagles fan could see something ain’t right about the lopsidedness of the penalties stacked against the Eagles’s opponents

[@courtneyjasiak7788]

Isn’t he already employed by the Cowboys?

[@jsherbsX24]

No

[@sirjoshuafaw]

I think this is a power move on the Bills behalf to intimidate the refs on the field if their intention is to try to weigh the game

[@klardfarkus3891]

Officiating is how the chiefs have been winning, this could be the new hiring battle in nfl. Buying officials off to win games.

[@PolymorphicBytes]

Kind of like Generals getting sweet gigs with govt contract companies after they retire.. No, could never be anything questionable going on there. lol What the NFL needs to do is stop hiding communications between referees on the field. Let's hear what they discussed before a call. Let's hear the logic.

[@adamluloff9602]

LOL, damit...you're old!

[@matthewkantar5583]

Allen points at a defender as he goes in for a TD, as he has done on at least three other occasions with no flags, but gets a drive killing taunting penalty. Grounding is called on him in the same game while he is being roughed, refs don’t care how obvious it is. Some games are fixed, hiring a consultant won’t help.

[@thomasscott116]

Your hurt feelings are great entertainment 😂🎉thanks

[@answeris4217]

The day the NFL made business partnerships with online bookies.... The NFL lost all credibility

[@justenlilly9099]

The fix is in… I mean the NFL owns the refs… plus if you watch seahawk games you wouldn’t need to be convinced. Last year the rams got the ball at the 20 and then got 79 yards of plenty’s and then had 1 yard TD run. That’s just how the game is now. It’s about Jersey sells..

[@thomasscott116]

Did somebody did somebody break your heart 😂😂😂 your hurt feelings are more entertaining than the games

[@justenlilly9099]

@@thomasscott116 just the truth. Sorry if you don’t like it

[@JohnWilliams-wz9vk]

Sims looks like he could go QB ..now.

[@dannysmith716]

LET'S GO BUFFALO!!!💙❤️🦬🏈

[@jimchilds9195]

There no fix but you have got to be the most gullible person in earth if you don't think they make calls to manipulate that betting line . Since they've allowed online betting and fantasy betting the officiating has gotten suspect to the point even announcer can't hide their disbelief

[@user-kx9yd9ih3r]

The Mafia talks about it on KZbin about how they fix NFL games and college games. Yeah they are fixed.

[@OldGoat-cw8he]

So they hired a guy to let them know the NFL and the refs have decided you are going to lose. Don't throw the challenge just take it, nothing you can do.

[@thomasscott116]

Call an ambulance for your hurt feelings 😂😂😂 they sound serious hurt 😢