Former NFL Head of officiating took FOX job with Goodell's blessing

Former NFL Head of officiating Mike Pereira will be working on FOX this year and will be in the Los Angeles headquarters, where he will occasionally appear on the pre-game show to discuss trends and rules changes. After the game, he might appear to discuss calls during the day according to Milton Kent of Fanhouse.com.
During Sunday afternoons, Pereira will monitor all the games in play, and Pereira will be on call to potentially go live with FOX game announcers to discuss an official's rulings, rule interpretations and applications.
Pereira makes it clear that he will not shill for NFL officials. If someone blows a call, he'll have no problem saying that, but he'll also attempt to provide a context for what happened.

Pereira, a former college official and NFL side judge, didn't exactly need Roger Goodell's permission to take on his new post.
But it didn't hurt that, over a recent dinner, the commissioner gave Pereira his blessing to appear to, in effect, pull back the curtain on what officials do as an eye in the sky of sorts.
"I think he (Goodell) realizes that the fan, our fan, the NFL fan, has become a very sophisticated fan," Pereira said. "For him, to have a program that is basically open and will address situations, he thinks it's good and for me to have the opportunity to have the platforms to teach rules to fans and to announcers and to anyone who wants to listen, he thinks that's a good thing."

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Mike Pereira is one of the best. That's a good pick-up for FOX. He is very good at explaining controversial decisions in a calm rational manner. Mike did a great job after the Super Bowl explaining the so called blown calls - of course, none of the cry hawk fans listened, but still ...

It could be interesting seeing Pereira cut into a live broadcast of a game and explain the ref's call live during a game .
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He must have gotten some big bucks.