Zebra Watch Week #5
Here’s a quick update on our weekly look at the NFL officials and their effect on the game. Here are the numbers from the fifth weekend of games.
Before we get to the details, check out this Peter King story on NFL Commish Roger Goodell giving his referees a peop talk this week.
The Commish might want to talk to his guys about inconsistency, because the differences in their crews is starting to really show themselves. Walt Coleman’s crew threw just six flags, with five accepted in the San Diego-Miami game. At the other end of the spectrum was Bill Carollo’s crew that threw 24 flags, with 21 walked off in the Tennessee-Baltimore game. That’s four times the number of flags.
Ed Hochuli and his crew were busy again, with 18 flags accepted. Same with Ron Winter’s group, that also had 18 penalties walked off. Those were both near their season averages, which rank among the busiest crews in the league.
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WEEK #5
| Â Rank | Â Referee | Penalties- Yards |
Declined/ Offsetting |
 Home |  Visitors |
| 1. | Walt Coleman |
5-51 |
1 |
1-5 |
4-46 |
| 2. | Al Riveron |
7-85 |
2 |
5-56 |
2-29 |
| Â | Gene Steratore |
7-64 |
2 |
4-40 |
3-24 |
| Â | Tony Corrente |
7-36 |
0 |
1-5 |
6-31 |
| 5. | Mike Carey |
10-93 |
2 |
6-37 |
4-56 |
| Â | Jerome Boger |
10-56 |
2 |
4-20 |
6-36 |
| 7. | Walt Anderson |
11-85 |
5 |
6-55 |
5-30 |
| Â | Carl Cheffers |
11-112 |
1 |
9-97 |
2-15 |
| 9. | Scott Green |
12-86 |
3 |
6-41 |
6-45 |
| Â | Terry McAulay |
12-91 |
1 |
8-56 |
4-35 |
| 11. | Bill Leavy |
13-96 |
1 |
6-52 |
7-44 |
| 12. | Ed Hochuli |
18-162 |
2 |
11-102 |
7-60 |
| Â | Ron Winter |
18-218 |
1 |
8-89 |
10-129 |
| 14. | Bill Carollo |
21-169 |
3 |
11-91 |
10-78 |
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Home/Away numbers in red for winning team
2008 OVERALL
| Â Â Rank | Â Â Referee | Â Â Games | Â Avg. Flags |
 Penalties- Yards |
  Home |   Visitors |
| 1. | Walt Coleman |
5 |
7.8 |
39-308 |
14 |
25 |
| 2. | Pete Morelli |
4 |
8 |
32-219 |
14 |
18 |
| 3. | Gene Steratore |
5 |
9.2 |
46-381 |
19 |
27 |
| 4. | Carl Cheffers |
4 |
9.3 |
37-294 |
24 |
13 |
| 5. | Walt Anderson |
5 |
11 |
55-365 |
23 |
32 |
| Â | Mike Carey |
4 |
11 |
44-381 |
23 |
21 |
| Â | Al Riveron |
5 |
11 |
55-550 |
32 |
23 |
| 8. | Scott Green |
5 |
11.4 |
57-432 |
28 |
29 |
| 9. | John Parry |
4 |
11.5 |
46-379 |
23 |
23 |
| 10. | Tony Corrente |
5 |
11.8 |
59-457 |
29 |
30 |
| 11. | Bill Leavy |
4 |
12.5 |
50-407 |
24 |
26 |
| 12. | Terry McAulay |
4 |
12.8 |
51-512 |
30 |
21 |
| 13. | Jerome Boger |
4 |
13.5 |
54-383 |
28 |
26 |
| 14. | Bill Carollo |
4 |
14.2 |
57-432 |
26 |
31 |
| 15. | Ron Winter |
4 |
14.75 |
59-538 |
28 |
31 |
| 16. | Ed Hochuli |
5 |
17.6 |
88-708 |
51 |
37 |
| 17. | Jeff Triplette |
4 |
19 |
76-597 |
42 |
34 |
If league would quit worrying about hiring sons and family of officials, minority hires, and quit paying bonus payment to league officials for hiring these people, league might get back to hiring best officials, instead of those that keep the families happy and paid.