Buckle up. The NFL's signature Week 8 game will be officiated by the crew that has averaged the highest number of penalty flags per game this season.

When the country last saw referee Jerome Boger, he was calling 23 penalties -- accepted, declined or offsetting -- in the Week 6 Monday night slopfest between the New York Jets and Arizona Cardinals. Sunday night, Boger's crew is scheduled to be at AT&T Stadium for an NFC East showdown between the Philadelphia Eagles and Dallas Cowboys.

Boger's crew averages 20.3 penalty flags per game, as the first chart shows, and it has called between 18 and 24 in each of its six previous outings in 2016. The NFL average is 16.5 calls per game, and Boger's total is 72.6 percent higher than referee Walt Coleman, whose crew has averaged 11.7 penalties per game.

As I've written before, NFL officiating crews take on personalities as the season progresses. That's true for other sports as well, be it the strike zone of baseball umpires or the sensitivity to contact of basketball referees.

Boger's crew quite clearly errs on the side of calling a penalty. For further context on the way it approaches games, keep in mind that there have been 10 games this season in which the total number of penalties has been less than half of Boger's average (10 or fewer). About 60.7 percent of all games in the NFL have been called with fewer than 18 penalties, the lowest total Boger has produced in a game.

What does that mean for Sunday night? The good news is that the Cowboys are averaging the NFL's fourth-fewest penalties per game this season (6.6). The bad news: The Eagles rank No. 30 at 10.2 per game. In this case, two of the three factors that go into penalty totals -- the officiating crew and one of the teams -- have histories of high activity. Look out.

Now, take a look at the second chart.

The numbers give you a sense of how active each crew is within some of the major penalty categories. You'll see that I've combined the four most common penalties on passing plays -- defensive holding, illegal contact and offensive/defensive pass interference. I also created a category called "behavior," which combined taunting, unsportsmanlike conduct, roughing the passer and unnecessary roughness.

Here are some of the takeaways I see as we look ahead to Sunday and Monday games. One important fact to remember: Referee Terry McAulay has worked only three games this season because of a personal health issue he had last month, so his numbers appear low in the second chart. Also: Foul calls are the shared responsibility of officials and players. On many occasions, officials are at the mercy of how cleanly the players perform.

• Boger's total of 37 passing penalties is more than twice that of seven other crews. But before Dez Bryant & Co. get too excited about drawing penalties, they should know that Boger has also called a league-high seven offensive pass interference penalties. That's more than twice what 12 of the 16 other crews have called. No pushing Sunday night -- on either side.

• On the other hand, referee Craig Wrolstad's crew has called just seven passing penalties. This points to the at-times substantial discrepancy between the way crews see games. Wrolstad is scheduled to work Sunday's game between the Kansas City Chiefs and Indianapolis Colts.

• Boger's crew is far less sensitive when it comes to behavior penalties. Ed Hochuli's crew is the most likely to call such penalties this weekend; it will work Sunday's game between the Seattle Seahawks and New Orleans Saints. (Jeff Triplette's crew has similar numbers but is off this week. Triplette also has accounted for three of the seven player ejections this season.)

• Tony Corrente's crew, which has been assigned to Sunday's game in Denver between the Chargers and Broncos, leads the league in offensive holding penalties. It has been nearly three times as likely to call a hold this season as has Coleman's crew, which will work the Cardinals-Panthers game in Charlotte, North Carolina.

• Good news for fans of receiver Julio Jones: Referee Walt Anderson and crew will handle the Falcons' game in Atlanta against the Packers. Anderson's crew leads the NFL with 16 calls for defensive pass interference. It has also called eight defensive holding calls, tied for the third most in the league. If anyone is going to give Jones some relief after a couple of tough no-calls against him, it's Anderson.