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Michael D asked in SportsFootball (American) · 1 decade ago

Do you think every play should be reviewable in the nfl/?

Yesterday during the Giants game, an Oakland player fumbled the ball. The officials ruled the whistle blew and it would stopped by forward progress and cannot be reviewed. During replays, it was obvious the whistle blew after the fumble and when the Giants player had the ball. Should all plays be reviewable since it is obvious in this example, and many others, that refs do make mistakes?

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  • 1 decade ago
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    Not every play. But, certainly when I, the announcers, and even my wife remarked, "I didn't hear any whistle until after the fumble was recovered," I thought that play should have been reviewable. The referees never called the play dead because of forward progress. And, I think they lied when they said that's why it wasn't reviewable. Otherwise, it would be like the Ed Hochuli bad call, where he was reprimanded by the league and bumped down in seniority, so he couldn't do playoff games last year. Yesterday's ref was just covering his behind.

  • 5 years ago

    The NFL already uses game tapes to evaluate the performance of officials. Typically, officials come out 98+% accuracy. Those who don't are not retained. A review takes about 2 minutes of real time to look at and rule on. 10 reviews a game is 20 more minutes which will end up adding about a half hour more each game on TV, an extra 90 minutes on Sunday for nor more action. Momentum on drives would be ground to a halt because there is a challenge. Do you really want a system that will slow the game down and make them even longer so that you can try to squeeze the last 2% out of it? At some point you hit diminishing returns. I'm also interested in how you determined that the call in question was not pass interference. Do you know the six types of defensive pass interference so that you unequivocally state it was not one of them? How many years worth of NFL rule books do you own and have you read? How many hundreds of hours have you spent reviewing game film and NFL rules interpretations?

  • Not every play, but I think that (at times) a coach should be able to challenge as to whether or not a flagrant penalty occured. I believe that they should incorporate more challenges because the refs make numerous mistakes every game. However, the problem with this is that it will extend the length of the game.

  • 1 decade ago

    Yes every play should be reviewable however than you would see more spike plays in the middle of games and more no huddle.

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  • 1 decade ago

    No, because if you review every play the game will be 6 hour long

  • 1 decade ago

    games would take like 5 hours,

    and if your talking about from atop the both.

    some teams dont even huddle anymore,

    so are u saying they would have to wait.

    it would still take to long.

  • 1 decade ago

    Yes i do. But i think refs do a pretty good job.

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