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Seen where Sean Payton is gloating about the instant replay rule change regarding call and non-calls for pass interference.
https://www.si.com/nfl/2019/03/26/nfl-owners-meeting-sean-payton-victory-lap-nfl-owners-meetings.
Here's hoping that the Saints lose a crucial (hopefully playoff) game next year because of a review that would not have happened if not for the rule change. That would be so sweet. Karma's a bitch. Just ask Clay Matthews and the Packers. Whined like hell all year about a rule change directly resulting from his pussy-ass quaterback on a legal hit.
Be careful what you wish for, New Orleans.
Karma may well be already in effect. Hope they do get Rodger'd. They already have had back to back crushing playoff heartbreaks. Their tears are sweet nectar and well deserved.
Folks, football is continuing on this downward spiral of "fairness". How can a "non-call" be reviewed? How is a PI "non-call" more egregious than a blatant "non-call" of a hold, offensive or defensive?
Hell, why stop there? Take a few minutes to re-review EVERY play just to make sure nothing was missed that may have unfairly benefitted either team. Sure games will be 5 hours long, but won't Budweiser, Coors and Ford be happy? 
Quote: @Ralphie said:
Folks, football is continuing on this downward spiral of "fairness". How can a "non-call" be reviewed? How is a PI "non-call" more egregious than a blatant "non-call" of a hold, offensive or defensive?
Hell, why stop there? Take a few minutes to re-review EVERY play just to make sure nothing was missed that may have unfairly benefitted either team. Sure games will be 5 hours long, but won't Budweiser, Coors and Ford be happy?
So long as you do not increase the number of challenges, you are not really extending the length of the game. Whether I use my challenges to contest a turnover, a catch, an out-of-bounds play, a holding call, or a PI, the length of the game should be the same.
Still, I would not rush into making every call and non-call reviewable. But not because it might extend the length of the game. I think the danger in making everything reviewable is that it makes challenging plays become an even more critical (and more cynical) strategy in every game. If I am in a tight game with less than 4 minutes to go and the other team scores a TD, especially a long TD, I will throw the flag and look for something to challenge. Was there a pre-snap motion, hands to the face, holding, a pick play, whatever.
Quote: @dadevike said:
@ Ralphie said:
Folks, football is continuing on this downward spiral of "fairness". How can a "non-call" be reviewed? How is a PI "non-call" more egregious than a blatant "non-call" of a hold, offensive or defensive?
Hell, why stop there? Take a few minutes to re-review EVERY play just to make sure nothing was missed that may have unfairly benefitted either team. Sure games will be 5 hours long, but won't Budweiser, Coors and Ford be happy?
So long as you do not increase the number of challenges, you are not really extending the length of the game. Whether I use my challenges to contest a turnover, a catch, an out-of-bounds play, a holding call, or a PI, the length of the game should be the same.
Still, I would not rush into making every call and non-call reviewable. But not because it might extend the length of the game. I think the danger in making everything reviewable is that it makes challenging plays become an even more critical (and more cynical) strategy in every game. If I am in a tight game with less than 4 minutes to go and the other team scores a TD, especially a long TD, I will throw the flag and look for something to challenge. Was there a pre-snap motion, hands to the face, holding, a pick play, whatever.
I have no essential problem with reviewing actual plays...catches, TD's and the like. Reviewing actual penalties now calls into question the individuals wearing striped shirts. Refereeing has always been a human act that, just like errors players made by players during the game, human errors can occur. But at least a review of the call...in some limited circumstances...can be made using the technology we have.
But reviewing "non-calls" opens up a whole new avenue that can only increase the amount of scrutiny put on every play. If it "works" for PI calls, why not holds, off-sides, pick plays, etc.
Limiting the number of times a flag can be thrown by the coach is only a temporary restriction. Don't think for a second that won't be expanded if the "egregiousness" of a non-call puts a game outcome into question. What happens in the next Super Bowl if the losing team sees a hold by an O lineman not called that allowed the opposition QB to throw the winning TD? Will that coach/team/city cry to the NFL owners to get holds included in new rule "6d"?This whole ruling is based on the fact one cry-baby coach/team/city can't deal with the loss by their team on a play that was not a touchdown and potentially may not have mattered anyway.
Quote: @Ralphie said:
Folks, football is continuing on this downward spiral of "fairness". How can a "non-call" be reviewed? How is a PI "non-call" more egregious than a blatant "non-call" of a hold, offensive or defensive?
Hell, why stop there? Take a few minutes to re-review EVERY play just to make sure nothing was missed that may have unfairly benefitted either team. Sure games will be 5 hours long, but won't Budweiser, Coors and Ford be happy?
can you imagine holding penalties being reviewed? games would be 6 hours long
Quote: @Bullazin said:
@ Ralphie said:
Folks, football is continuing on this downward spiral of "fairness". How can a "non-call" be reviewed? How is a PI "non-call" more egregious than a blatant "non-call" of a hold, offensive or defensive?
Hell, why stop there? Take a few minutes to re-review EVERY play just to make sure nothing was missed that may have unfairly benefitted either team. Sure games will be 5 hours long, but won't Budweiser, Coors and Ford be happy?
can you imagine holding penalties being reviewed? games would be 6 hours long
Why 6 hours? you get 2 challenges, 3 if the 1st 2 were upheld.
What about stupid calls by the ref---can you challenge them. Like Seattle game where a player uses the Defender to jump over the line man to block a punt. Hell they even threw the flag on that one and went to the monitor and said the player didn't get an assist from the Defender and picked up the flag.
Or the first greenbay game where the defender was a full helmet and shoulder pad across the line on a blocked punt ( line ref had to lean way over just to see the ball prior to the hike and no flag)
Conversely, we've all seen drives stalled or points taken off the board by "phantom" hold calls. Can those be called into question by challenge some day? They occur a heck of a lot more often than non-called PI plays.
Quote: @Akvike said:
Or the first greenbay game where the defender was a full helmet and shoulder pad across the line on a blocked punt ( line ref had to lean way over just to see the ball prior to the hike and no flag)
Ahhh....the mysterious "Lameblow Effect".
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