Instant replay of Brunell the crossing line of scrimmage

If the NFL is going to make rules where a ref's penality call cannot be challenged, then they should not be able to review a play and then throw a penality...especially since there was no penality called in the first place.
Right. You can't use IR to CALL a penalty. Bunch of horse crap. I've never seen it before.

I think this is the first time I have seen a non penalty call reviewed.


I have seen it for spot, touchdown/no touchdown, fumble/no fumble, completion/incompletion.

Unless as the previous post quoted, this falls within one of the reviewable infractions. I haven't heard of this. Wouldn't that have to mean that a coach could challenge if a qb was over the line of scrimmage, as well?

In my opinion the safety call and the over the line call should be NOT be reviewable.They should be treated like pass interference calls not reviewable because it is a "judgement" call.

The "public" rulebook says that an official in the final two minutes of a half may only rule on "possession or position".

I think the officials blew this one.

Yes. Can someone find out if a play has been reviewed ever when a penalty was not called? This must be a first where the replay official threw the flag! Can coaches challenge a play when no penalty was called and get one called?

also weren't we in field goal range before the penalty and not after? i can't remember for sure

again,i think this is one of those phantom calls against the skins that we will never know the true answer to,does anybody else remember the playoff game,I think against detroit ,i think in 91,where detroit fumbled and out of the pile a skin picked it up and ran it in for a td and the officials were still looking for the ball in the pile and ended up giving detroit the ball?we ended up blowing them out so the call didnt matter,but it was fcked up and we never got an apology from the nfl,total bs

again,i think this is one of those phantom calls against the skins that we will never know the true answer to,does anybody else remember the playoff game,I think against detroit ,i think in 91,where detroit fumbled and out of the pile a skin picked it up and ran it in for a td and the officials were still looking for the ball in the pile and ended up giving detroit the ball?we ended up blowing them out so the call didnt matter,but it was fcked up and we never got an apology from the nfl,total bs


Not positive but I believe it was Alvoid May's who did that.

I was saying it at the time you can't review a play to see if there's a penalty, where does it stop, you either throw the flag and then review it, or that's it, I wonder if the replay official scanned the field on that review to see if one of our receivers was bumped after 5 yards? After all that is a penalty.

Yeah why was that reviewed??? Is it legal to review spot of pass??? Think there's something real sketchy going on.