OT: NFL approves booth review of all turnovers
Title pretty much says it all. Here's the link to the ESPN article.
All turnovers will be reviewed from the booth with no coaches' challenges needed and overtime periods in the regular season will use the same scoring rules as the postseason after NFL owners voted to approve those proposals Wednesday. The replay official already reviews all scoring plays.
(Emphasis mine)
What do you think about this? Personally, I think it's dumb, considering all the extra challenges coaches have been given in recent years (they can use as many as 3 per game now, right?). I guess this just means that there will be almost no missed calls from now on; but how many times are we going to have to sit through a challenge delay every game? Also, what is left for coaches to challenge? I can only think of the spot of the ball and catches (whether or not the ball hit the ground, whether or not the ball was caught in-bounds), but other than that, I'd be willing to bet that at least 80% of coaches challenges were for either scoring plays or turnovers.
What do you think about it?
What's the NLF?
Edit: I agree with you. I think it's a stupid move.
I guess that's what I get for posting this early.
It happens to the best of us.
Just soak your fingers for a few minutes before trying to type.
March 29th, 2012 at 10:23 AM ^
The NFL really does suck hard core compared to NCAA football. While I still watch the NFL at times, I become less interested in it as each year passes. The NFL is the sole reason I stopped listening to Mike and Mike about five years ago, as that is ALLLLLLLLLLL they want to talk about. They're pathetic. When they do talk about NCAA, I feel they do it just to get through it and really don't know what the hell they're talking about. Then they always seem to easily find their way back to honking the NFL.
give the guys in the booth the latest Madden version. They can announce the winner after they play the game.
Fumbles also can be challenged.
Personally i like it. Nothing is worse than not having a challenge for an obvious wrong turnover call in the 4th quarter because you used one earlier in the game and were wrong.
The 3 comes from if your first two challenges are right you get a 3rd one. This is also dumb to me because if you get three right in a row, why shouldn't you get to keep challenging, it just means the refs are doing a shitty job, why should you be punished for it later?
Right, but with this new rule, you'd have to be a moron to get a challenge wrong. Case in point:
According to ESPN Stats & Information, last season (the first with all touchdowns being reviewed), plays were reversed on 52 percent of challenges, the best rate over the past 11 seasons and 10 percent higher than in 2010.
I'd bet that we'll see that success rate continue to climb. Which isn't necessarily a bad thing if plays are being called correctly, but come one, can you really expect to get every call right?
How does missing on something that is just over a 50/50 shot make you a moron? If anything it screams average.
Based on what do you think the success rate will climb? The fact that there will be more reviews alreadys so challenges will only be used on egregious errors? I would think we would see the opposite. More spot challenges now as coaches know that if you don't use them you lose them. They'd be more willing to take risks on these (and other) calls as they don't need to keep them as touchdowns and turnovers would be reviewed anyways. This could easily drive the success rate even lower.
Also i would expect every call to be right, if the goal is to only get 90% of calls right you will never do better than that. THat would end up being something like 5 missed calls a game too between placements, penalties and procedural issues.
to instant replay.
Instant replay detractors from 10 years ago have been proven correct. Instant replay was put in to correct the instantly and convincingly 100% wrong calls, not the 51%-49% calls. Referees and officials are part of games, tough breaks are part of games.
The tentacles of instant replay now choke the game to death. Not a fan of any further expansion of its use, whether it be on-field, in booth, or from an Ed Harris-from-the-Truman Show-like eye in the sky.
This is a great move. I never liked the NFL review system. Correct, you can get three challenges, if you win the first two, and you have timeouts remaining. However, what if there are 4, 5 or even 10 questionable calls that go against you in a game? In the NFL in 2011, you were just out of luck.
against the Saints game where they turned the ball over twice when the refs incorrectly thought it's a turnover or when the refs didn't blow the whistles. I remember Jim Schwartz has to challenge twice for it and only to have it one incorrectly stand. Titus Young scored a TD(but was ruled out of bound, another shitty call by the ref) but Schwartz couldn't challenge it because he already used up two challenges due to ref incompetence.
March 29th, 2012 at 10:09 AM ^
I'll tell you exactly why: more commercial breaks. Now, even on an obvious interception with no question about the play, we'll get to see another Geico commercial! Thank God for college football because I'm losing interest in the NFL with all these rule changes the past 4-5 years. "Oh we want to protect player safety." Okay, that's why you have at least one organization (INCLUDING THE DREW BREES - THE PLAYER REP) fully in support of bounties to injure other stars. Thanks Goodell, but your product is seriously weakening, take it over to Europe like you want to.
March 29th, 2012 at 10:14 AM ^
Yay! More time watching commercials!
/s
March 29th, 2012 at 10:25 AM ^
Yes, another reason why I hate watching NFL games. They go to commercial after a touchdown. Then after the ensuing kickoff, they go to another commercial. You don't see that in NCAA.
March 29th, 2012 at 11:11 AM ^
every post that doesn't worship in the House of the NFL. They have released the fanboys! I suspect one of the radio stations!
March 29th, 2012 at 12:21 PM ^
I noticed that also.
This just in, NFL honks. The NFL SUCKS compared to college football and it's not even close. The primary reason the NFL is so big is because of stupid fantasy football.
March 29th, 2012 at 12:41 PM ^
well thats just like...your opinion, man.
correct opinion at that. The only thing less watchable than the NFL is the NBA, and possibly Teen Wolf 2. I can watch an entire Eastern Michigan v. Miami OH college football game. I can't watch a quarter of the Super Bowl.
March 29th, 2012 at 11:12 AM ^
Do you guys remember when they actually played football in the NFL? Yeah, me neither. I understand the emphasis on player safety and I get wanting to make sure the officials get it right, but this nonsense is starting to go way too far. Pretty soon professional football will be two hand touch (touches to the midsection only though) where play is stopped for a couple minutes after every single play so it can reviewed by a team of geriatrically slow NASA scientists to give the false impression of pinpoint accuracy. Give me a friggin' break.
I'll stick to my college football, thank you very much.