Dean Blandino

You could explain that, look, from their perspective, this is what they saw.

Obviously, look at the replay.

That's not what happened.

And I think the officials, and I have great relationships with a lot of the people that I worked with, I think they understand that.

I think they understand as long as you're not mean spirited and you're not, you know, oh, that's just awful and those types of things.

I think they get it.

Look, the scrutiny at the NFL, if you're involved with the NFL, the level of scrutiny is through the roof and officials are not immune to that.

They get it.

They understand that.

the pressure and everything else.

So, but you just, you know, I try to be mindful of how I'm articulating that.

I got to give my opinion.

I have to disagree when I feel that way, but it's how you do it sometimes can be, can kind of soften the blow a little bit.

Yeah, I mean, look, it absolutely is.

And when replay first came in, that was a big deal.

They did not officials did not want to get their call overturned.

And then over time, it was like, hey, at the end of the day, if we got it right, that's a good thing, because now nobody's looking at the officials after the game.

And it is, it's like, think about in any walk of, you know, any job, any profession, imagine you have to make decisions and then somebody's coming in and going, nope, wrong.

We're going to do it the other way.

That there, there's a mentality.