reviewable plays

does anyone else agree that pass interference plays should be reviewable. i meen having most penaltys non reviewable is fine we dont want to slow the game down too much and usually a blown holding call only costs you five or ten yards and for the most part your defense has a chance to still shut the other team down but a pass interference call can cost you up to 70 yards and possibly give the other team first and goal on the one essentially giving them a touchdown or not giving you first and goal essentially robbing you of one (we found out the hard way) . what im saying is by having replays at all there admitting that referes can and will make mistakes and they dont want the refs to decide the game but for some reason they still have penaltys that can cost a team 60 or 70 yards (depending on the arm strength of the quarterback ) that are non reviewable.

There should be a crew of zebras in front of monitors in a booth somewhere so that they can add their viewpoint to any game. There are so many things that the field crew can't see.

If there is already a booth crew they need to stay awake during the game.

There should be a crew of zebras in front of monitors in a booth somewhere so that they can add their viewpoint to any game. There are so many things that the field crew can't see.

If there is already a booth crew they need to stay awake during the game.

I said almost the same thing on another thread. At the very least, there should be officials that are able to view it on a monitor and chime in on questionable calls.

with this new contact rule, interference is like holding. happens every play. imagine if holding was challengeable.

reviewable i think is good as long as its by the officials and on truly questionable calls.

There should be a crew of zebras in front of monitors in a booth somewhere so that they can add their viewpoint to any game. There are so many things that the field crew can't see.

If there is already a booth crew they need to stay awake during the game.


I always wondered why they didn't do that. Also, why have the head ref stick his head under the hood on the sideline? Why not have someone up in the booth do the whole review, instead of this odd process they do now? Isn't that what they do in the NHL? As for expanding replay, I don't know. The game is full of potential penalties. It could grind to a halt.

Still, I'd love to get those two from Monday back!

Interference calls should be reviewable. That's not to say that they will be overturned.

with this new contact rule, interference is like holding. happens every play. imagine if holding was challengeable.

reviewable i think is good as long as its by the officials and on truly questionable calls.

I don't really agree about interference on every play, although it is fairly frequent. No matter how often there IS interference, it SHOULD BE CALLED. Period. It bears no relation to holding, which is very hard to detect in the crowded area where it occurs. The interference is out in the open, and there is no excuse for not seeing it or not calling it. So what if there are frequent penalties stopping the game. That would get fixed REAL quick by the coaches - they don't like getting penalized.

The defensive backs need to learn to cover their guys without manhandling them - they used to do a damn good job of years ago, when you couldn't TOUCH the receiver without seeing a flag. This crap of giving defenders leeway to clobber the receiver if they turn to look at the ball, and ignoring pushoffs going down the field screws up the game. They should either change the rules so that anything goes for the defender AND receiver, or enforce the rules they have!!

Giving the officials all this leeway and no recourse for replay, invites , not just errors in judgement, but outright FAVORITISM that changes the outcome of games. I'm not convinced there was not bias by the officials in our game.

Either everything should be reviewable (and the loopholes the refs have, be tightened up), or nothing should be reviewable. I know there are judgment calls, but sometimes a judgment call is just not the right call once you see it on film. Maybe for such challenges, they can have the ref who threw the flag also watch the film and see if he wants to change his mind about it.

in the nba the refs will favor the better team, but the penalties there are for 2% or so of the total score or a change of possession (which only happens about 100 times a game), in football favoritism is just that much worse because (in this game), it could have changed each side's score by over 30%!! thats just two mistakes... bit harder to overcome than 4-10% score difference of bad calls (many more than 2 mistakes) in a crappily officiated nba game.

It's pretty bad though to think that the Refs on the field have to have other refs watching the monitors to help them do their jobs they should already be doing on the field. I know the refs cannot call every play exactly right..but NFL refs should be able to get pass interference calls (like the ones Monday Night) right.