Players Call For NFL to Reach Deal With Refs

The NFL players’ union has asked the league to get regular referees back on the field, and the voices are getting louder after a series of blown calls and dangerous plays involving replacement officials in Week 3.

FOX News Radio’s Chris Hoenig has just some of what went wrong:

No flag here…

(Play-by-Play) “Heyward-Bey…a collision…Ryan Mundy just laid him out.”

With a helmet-to-helmet hit on CBS that knocked Oakland’s Darrius Heyward-Bey out cold.

But there was one late in Washington.

(Shanahan) “They threw the flag on us, and there was half of their football team, you know, on the field.”

If that’s not bad enough for Redskins’ coach Mike Shanahan, refs counted off 20 yards instead of the proper 15, helping derail a potentially game-tying drive.  New England Patriots’ coach Bill Belichick…

(Play-by-Play) “Oh boy…well, that’s a few bucks.”

Grabbed an official running off the field after a game-winning field goal barely snuck inside the upright in the Pats-Ravens game on NBC.

(Belichick) “Go talk to the officials about the way they called the game.  Talk to the league about the way they called it, I don’t know.”

The league is reviewing that incident.

Chris Hoenig, FOX News Radio.