The biggest problem to me over the years has been the move toward more and more subjective officiating that is a natural consequence of rule making that is impossible to get right at the speed with which the NFL game moves. Every time a receiver gets hit hard over the middle (except last night's Cincy game where a Cardinal player blatantly speared Green and it wasn't called), 10 flags get thrown regardless of whether the hit was clean or not. The problem with the NFL these days is not so much the refs (they were always mediocre at best), but that these subjective and impossible to interpret at game speed rules have made each game an exercise in subjectivity. Defensive holding is a prime example. It's a penalty that could get called on every play of the game. Instead of being a simple five yard penalty, which it really should be, it's an automatic first down. That's a huge momentum shift. Same with defensive pass interference, same with every unnecessary roughness call on a QB sack. The game has become impossible to officiate, and therein lies the biggest problem. Yes, some officials and their crews are better than others and some are worse (Boger has always been a total hack), but the issue to me is not so much the officiating but the rules that the refs are asked to enforce and the judgment calls they are forced to make. Goodell has set up a system where the refs are destined to fail and determine the outcome of games and that's really, really unfortunate for the players and the fans.