Because coaches will only be challenging less-than-obvious calls, it is possible that the reversal rate for coaches will actually go down. When a replay is initiated, the delays should also be less. While the referee is a part of the review process, there are going to be situations where a clear decision could be made prior to the referee seeing the screen. In this case, the referee would just need to see enough video in order to accurately announce the replay decision.
It is, however, an unsettling game of musical chairs in the replay command center. To keep the vice president of replay out of replay adds additional layers of suspicion as to what is really going on behind the scenes. But perhaps most disconcerting is that there is no experienced backup to Anderson in the centralized replay bunker. While the other innovations might enhance replay, the staffing issue might be enough to reverse those improvements after further review.
This site uses Akismet to reduce spam. Learn how your comment data is processed. But some big changes this year will occur away from the replay hub. Quick fixes from the replay official With an ongoing push from coaches for a sky judge or a booth umpire — the former term which originated during the meteoric fall of the Alliance of American Football — the unanimously opposed Competition Committee held its ground and initiated a review of options.
First, the replay official would have to see something abundantly clear on video within a narrow scope: Whether or not the pass was completed or intercepted Whether or not a loose ball touches a boundary line or the goal line Correct a spot when the location of the ball relates to the boundaries, line of scrimmage, line to gain, or the goal line. Correct a spot to an earlier part of a run where a runner was down by contact but not ruled down. Bottom line All told, the changes to replay have the possibility for more reversals and fewer replays, when counting challenges, booth reviews, and the new quick-fix procedure.
Image: Hawk-Eye Innovations. Share on Facebook Share. Share on Twitter Tweet. Share on Pinterest Share. Which was not a surprise considering the one-year experiment was largely a mess. The majority of replays is objective, and what I mean by that is that it's a line. Did the ball touch the ground or not?
Were two feet in or not? Did he grab him enough? Was the restriction enough? The fact that whether a ball was caught or not caught — we might disagree once in a times , but about 99 percent of the time we are going to agree because we can see it on replay.
In addition to the subjectivity issues, the NFL's ditching PI review confirmed the league a year prior had simply overreacted to the non-call that cost the Saints a trip to Super Bowl We can't blame the NFL for taking action after Rams corner Nickell Robey-Coleman's blasting Saints receiver Tommylee Lewis was not called as the obvious pass interference it was, considering the officiating error occurred at such a crucial moment in the NFC championship game.
But, as we've written here before , the league addressed the wrong issue. The problem was not that such an egregious missed call could not be reviewed. The problem was that such an easy call was missed in the first place. It failed not on its own merits, but as a product of disinterested execution. The experiment did not fail miserably. NFL challenge rules state that the only person who can issue a challenge is the head coach of the team. The head coach does this with a special red flag that he keeps with him throughout the game.
The head coach signals that he wants to challenge a play by throwing the red flag onto the field of play. When the officials see the red flag, they blow the whistle and stop the clock.
This must be done before the ball is snapped on the next play. If the ball is snapped, then a challenge cannot be made. Not every play can be challenged under NFL challenge rules.
Teams cannot contest a penalty call or the lack of a penalty call, even if the blown call is obvious. Most challenges involve the possession of the ball, whether a player is down or the spot of the ball. Since the number of challenges is limited, head coaches usually save their challenges for critical times during a game. A turnover or third down conversion can determine the winner of a game.
Instant replay can reveal things that happen in a fraction of a second or within a fraction of a yard. When a challenge flag is thrown, the referee goes to the sidelines and watches replays of the challenged play on a monitor.
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