Phoenix ? The officiating gaffes in last January’s playoffs have produced a dramatic change in NFL policy.

Postseason officials will now come from cohesive crews who spent the season together instead of those who were rated the highest at their positions.

In other words, the difference between a team and a collection of all-stars.

“The commissioner said, ‘We can’t stay status quo,'” director of officiating Mike Pereira said Tuesday. “One way of doing it is to revamp the evaluation system.”

Under the new policy, the eight highest-rated crews will officiate the 11 playoff games, two fewer crews than in the past. The three that are rated at the top will do two games — a wild-card or divisional-round game, plus one of the divisional championship games or the Super Bowl.

The result is that 56 of the 119 officials will work the playoffs instead of 70.

In the past, crews were put together for the playoffs based on the ratings of each official. These all-star crews, though, sometimes lacked cohesion.

“We have always hammered home the importance of being a crew, of teamwork,” Pereira said. “But the ultimate reward, the playoffs and Super Bowl, was individual. We think this system reinforces what we want to do.”

Today, the owners will vote on two proposals, one to give each team one possession in overtime, the other to add two more teams to the playoffs for a total of 14.

Tampa Bay general manager Rich McKay, chairman of the competition committee, said he didn’t know if either would be approved.

“We might do it on a one-year experiment,” he said. “But we might also want to give it some time to work out the kinks.”