Ready2Rhyme
Young, Gifted, and Black
you wrong alot . They can indirectly effect them if your oline holding and you bust a big run he can let it go or he can call holding to negate a run , receiving similar situations with pass interference holding etc
...ok...but there's more than 1 ref on the field....plus some in the booth...and ref calls are heavily scrutinized and reviewed after every week by official League higher-ups in normal conditions - but especially so during the ref lockout with replacements.
Can 1 ref deliberately influence 1 players' stats? ....and if he managed to do it without the help of other officials, would he do it for his fantasy team?
Picture the line judge and the umpire and the referee conspiring together to not call holding on running plays all day so McCoy can put up numbers. "We lost our jobs but thx for helping me have a good fantasy week.."
Like I said, a non-story.