Mike Florio

They fly in.

They spend one or two full days going over everything that happened the weekend before it.

and getting everyone on the same page so there's continuity and consistency in these calls.

It's not difficult.

Here's the problem, though.

It's not just we have to give them more money.

You have to offer these folks enough that you'll buy out their full-time jobs that have a far less clear

method of accountability than being an NFL official does.

If you're going to go all eggs in the NFL official basket, it's going to take enough money to get you to give up your other job, a job that you're far less likely to be fired from.

It's all the money that's coming in.

And the question is, where does that money go?

And some of that money needs to be redirected to ensuring that officiating is as good as it possibly can be.

And even if you're not going to get to 100%, you need to create the impression you're trying to get to 100%.

And the process needs to have so much more transparency because now with legalized gambling, the thing that the commissioner said some 14 years ago when they hated it before they realized how much money they could make, normal incidents become fodder for conspiracy theories.

And I see that all the time.

People think the fix is in.

There needs to be better officiating, full-time officials, full transparency so people don't see something weird happen and assume that somebody is up to something.

Well, one thing that caught my attention is there's no proposal regarding the tush push.

And everyone's hair was on fire last year.

The tush push must go.