{"id":850294,"date":"2026-04-03T00:02:33","date_gmt":"2026-04-03T00:02:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/850294\/"},"modified":"2026-04-03T00:02:33","modified_gmt":"2026-04-03T00:02:33","slug":"roger-goodell-prioritizes-nfl-officiating-improvements-ahead-of-2026-season","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/850294\/","title":{"rendered":"Roger Goodell Prioritizes NFL Officiating Improvements Ahead of 2026 Season"},"content":{"rendered":"

Roger Goodell and the National Football League continue to dominate the American sports media landscape. The 2026 Super Bowl<\/a> between the Seattle Seahawks<\/a> and the New England Patriots<\/a> was the second-ranked television event<\/a> in United States history. Goodell attended the event, appearing unfazed when he handed the trophy to Seahawks chair Jody Allen and head coach Mike Macdonald.<\/p>\n

Goodell has made major changes to the league since being named NFL<\/a> commissioner in 2006. From turning the NFL Draft<\/a> into a three-day extravaganza<\/a> starting in 2010, allowing for legalized sports gambling on the league in 2018<\/a> and adding a 17th game to the regular season<\/a> in 2021, he has made a notable impact.<\/p>\n

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A consistent issue for fans of all American sports seems to be referees, but the discussion of officials always appears heightened when it comes to the NFL. While at the Super Bowl, Goodell commented on officiating, saying that he was amazed<\/a> by how good they were. It appears the commissioner is changing his tune ahead of the 2026 regular season.<\/p>\n

On Tuesday, both the NFL Executive Vice President Jeff Miller and Goodell were in lockstep when discussing officiating issues. At the NFL’s annual meeting, Miller told reporters<\/a>, \u201cThis is an opportunity for us to improve the state of our officiating.\u201d At the same event, Goodell expanded<\/a> further on the NFL’s prioritization of improving officiating.<\/p>\n

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\u201cOur No. 1 objective is to improve officiating,\u201d said Goodell. \u201cWe think we owe that to the game, we think we owe it to our players, coaches, and our fans. So, that\u2019s what we\u2019re focused on.”<\/p>\n

The NFL is expected to release<\/a> the 2026 NFL schedule in mid-May, with the release date tentatively scheduled for either May 13th or May 14th.<\/p>\n

Related: Cam Jordan Sends Message After Chiefs Decision on Monday<\/a><\/p>\n

This story was originally published by Athlon Sports<\/a> on Apr 2, 2026, where it first appeared in the NFL<\/a> section. Add Athlon Sports as a Preferred Source by clicking here.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Roger Goodell and the National Football League continue to dominate the American sports media landscape. The 2026 Super…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":850295,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[3],"tags":[7,20188,2860,122,249,6,11545,15,1902,261,116396],"class_list":{"0":"post-850294","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nfl","8":"tag-football","9":"tag-jeff-miller","10":"tag-mike-macdonald","11":"tag-national-football-league","12":"tag-new-england-patriots","13":"tag-nfl","14":"tag-nfl-commissioner","15":"tag-nfl-draft","16":"tag-roger-goodell","17":"tag-seattle-seahawks","18":"tag-united-states-history"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/116337847805419999","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/850294","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=850294"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/850294\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/850295"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=850294"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=850294"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=850294"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}