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How about these rule changes in the NFL?
I think that rules pertaining to challenges should be changed to the Coach being able to challenge ANY play at ANY time. Not being able to challenge during the final 2 minutes of either half is junk. I also think that all turnovers should be reviewed from the start of the play until its end. Interceptions are easy to review. Fumbles can be another story.
EDIT: I apologize. I didn't mean that a coach could have an endless amount of challenges. Just that the rules that prevent challenges would be rescinded.
Oma: Why would the coach that possesses the ball, challenge a completed pass? Besides, when a team has used up all of their challenges, the coach should be advised of that. Hence, should he attempt to challenge after that, the red marker will be ignored or a 15-yard unsportsmanlike conduct penalty can be called.
EDIT: Time outs are not charged for injuries. If time is stopped because a player is injured, the only requirement is that the injured player must sit out ONE PLAY. This has become a convenient method to get the game-clock stopped without using a "time out". This past Sunday, Detroit seemed to use this tactic repeatedly against Minnesota. Dallas did the same against Green Bay.
EDIT: Offenses are charged with a 10-second "run off" of the game-clock if they are losing and a injury occurs in the last 2 minutes of a half. Unless, of course, they have a time out left and elect to use it.
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- OmaLv 41 decade agoFavorite Answer
I agree that any play or call should be reviewable. I don't think it will cause more challengesif the coaches still risk losing a time out. Like the fumble recovery in the Green Bay game, the officials blew a play that altered the course of the game because recovery of a fumble is not reviewable.
I don't agree with changing the policy after the 2 minute warning. Then it can become a tool for stopping the game. Think about it for a second. Your team is down by a point but driving the ball with a few seconds left and no timeouts. They complete a big pass play that puts them in range of a chip shot fieldgoal, but have no ability to stop the clock and no time for the offense to get downfield, set, and spike the ball. A coach throws out a challenge flag. At the very least, play would stop in order to figure out what's going on...if the team has any challenges left, and what are they challenging. All they really need to do is buy time to get into position, and a bogus challenge flag would do just that.
To further explain what I was getting at, the coach wouldn't challenge anything. Say the ball was completed and stopped at the 5 yard line. Of course the coach isn't going to challenge it, but a challenge flag on the field would still stop the play long enough to find out why its on the field.
If the coach was only stalling for time for his players to get down field to spike the ball, it will still work. Then, even if he gets penalized 15 yards, he is still in position for a GW field goal.
It isn't about challenging the play at all. Its about stopping play. That is why the D is charged with a timeout if they have an injured player on the field.
- 1 decade ago
That's a good point, but remember if that was the case and there weren't a limited number of challenges then the games could potentially last five hours.
Every coach thinks that every call that doesn't go his team's way is incorrect, so this is a very dangerous proposition. Imagine with the current overtime structure how late a MNF game could go on the east coast
Source(s): NFL fan for 23 years - ?Lv 51 decade ago
all good except for the challenge thing and do fumble reviews too. plus, doing non reviewable plays are so gay.
- Anonymous1 decade ago
Not a good idea
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- Anonymous1 decade ago
bad!! real bad
