The NFL can't seem to escape poor officiating.

It reared its ugly head again on Monday night during the Green Bay Packers' one-point win over the Detroit Lions, when Lions defensive lineman Trey Flowers was hit with a couple of illegal-hands-to-the-face penalties that did not look like penalties at all during the fourth quarter, resulting in the Packers scoring 10 points.

Mike Florio of Pro Football Talk notes that the bad calls will probably be a topic of discussion when the NFL owners meet on Tuesday, saying that poor officiating is “the biggest threat their game currently faces.”

It would be one thing if this only happened once in a blue moon, but bad calls and missed calls are becoming far too frequent.

For example, we don't have to go back very far to bring up last season's NFC Championship Game, where a horrendous no-call cost the New Orleans Saints a chance at a Super Bowl.

Of course, there were bad calls all around in that game, and it's hard to say whether or not the missed pass interference call on Los Angeles Rams cornerback Nickell Robey-Coleman was truly the deciding factor. Chances are, it wasn't.

But that's not the point.

The officials are paid to do their job right, and when they are missing obvious calls that they should be nailing even without the benefit of replay, people are going to be upset.

Hopefully, the NFL can address this problem and improve it, but it's hard to see what else the league can actually do.