NFL scouts talk to people studying the draft, and they have opinions, and they understand that the analysts are going to put the opinions in their own words. Now, is Smith a bad student, or not focused? Not from what I have heard. But I probably haven't spoken to the same people Nawrocki has..No matter how hard they try there will always be something in their lives that influences the way they think which will have an influence on their opinion. All we can hope for is that they are objective and form their opinion on the letter of the law and not let any of those factors identified above influence their judgments and we all know just how hard that can be. So, yes those kinds of things do play a role in how a judge rules..

The game demands contact, and so, said Tunney, who officiated from 1960 to 1991, football is filled with what he calls doubt. Not, 'Did the lineman put his hands or throw his body at his opponent?' Tunney said. How he did it, where he did it, sometimes wh