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Former Lions passer Dan Orlovsky made an impassioned plea to NFL owners earlier today on the ESPN morning show "Get Up!" 

Orlovsky, a media darling and rising star at ESPN, expressed a sentiment shared by many who are presently frustrated with the poor quality of NFL officiating.  

"Owners, I am talking to you," Orlovsky passionately stated. "You don't have a problem, you have an epidemic. Your product is slowly being ruined by a third-party that has no consequence to their actions. You may not pay a lot of attention to social media, but you should. Not thousands of people, not tens of thousands of people, but millions of people are unhappy right now. And unhappy people don't spend money. America's favorite sport, at times, is becoming unwatchable because of bad officiating. It is not an October 2020 fix, it is not a 2020 fix, it is an October 15th, 2019, morning fix. Your product is being ruined. You need to fix this now." 

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