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Officiating crew ofClete Blakeman

8 games in 2026. 15.8 accepted flags a game against a league average of 14.7 (5th most of 18 crews), 120.1 penalty yards, and 52% of the flags on the home team.

All crews Flag Ledger

Photo: Arnie Papp, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons, cropped

Flags a game15.8league 14.7

Yards a game120.1league 118

Win prob. moved42 ptsleague 39

Late flags3.134th quarter, one-score games

TDs erased2touchdowns wiped by a flag

Game by game

Every game this crew worked

8 games, 15.8 accepted flags a game against a league average of 14.7.

Bottom line5 of 8 games above the league average; 52% of this crew's flags went against the home team.

How to read this chart

One bar = one game: as tall as the accepted flags in it; the number on top is the total, in yellow when it beats the league average.
Yellow and grey: yellow = flags against the home team, grey = against the away team; the small numbers inside are the split.
Dashed line: the league average, 14.7 flags a game. Under the bar: away @ home, week and final score. Tap a game to open it.

Against the league

What this crew calls

Taunting×2.6

Defensive Too Many Men on Field×2.3

Unsportsmanlike Conduct×2.0

Defensive Holding×1.9

Illegal Formation×0.3

Neutral Zone Infraction×0.6

Unnecessary Roughness×0.8

Bottom lineTheir signature call: taunting, ×2.6 the league rate.

How to read this chart

One row per penalty type.: The center line is the league rate per game.
Bar to the right (×1.5, ×2.0…):: this crew calls it more often than the league; ×2.0 = twice as often.
Bar to the left (×0.5…):: calls it less often; ×0.5 = half as often. Few games, so treat single rows as hints, not proof.

On the field

The crew

Clete BlakemanReferee
Kent PayneLine Judge
Andy WarnerDown Judge
James ColemanSide Judge · 7 of 8
Jonah MonroeBack Judge · 7 of 8
Karina TovarField Judge · 7 of 8
Scott WalkerUmpire · 7 of 8

The flag that mattered most

Biggest swing

19pts

Offensive Holding on BUF, Week 3, Q4 11:15

(Shotgun) 17-J.Allen pass short left to 26-T.Johnson for 43 yards, TOUCHDOWN NULLIFIED by Penalty [92-J.Eboigbe]. PENALTY on BUF-88-D.Knox, Offensive Holding, 10 yards, enforced at LAC 14.

The career · 2010 to today

Clete Blakeman, every season

Regular season and playoffs since 2010, compared with each season's average and with the league. All referees since 1999

Bottom lineOver his career, Clete Blakeman calls −0.0 flags a game below the season average; home teams won 55% of his games (league 56%).

How to read this chart

The tiles:: career totals: games, flags a game compared with each season's average (+ = more), how often the home team won and covered the spread, how often games went over the betting total, and the share of flags on the home team, each next to the league figure.
The bars:: one per season. Up (yellow) = he called more flags a game than the league did that year; down (blue) = fewer. Taller = further from average. Comparing with each year matters because flag rates change with the rules.
The four boxes below:: pass interference, holding, roughing and pre-snap fouls, per game above (+) or below (−) the season average.

Games since 201026315 playoff games · 1 Super Bowl

Flags vs the season−0.012.5 accepted flags a game

Home teams won55%league 56%

Home teams covered50%league 49%

Went over the total49%league 49%

Flags on the home team49%league 48%