NFL fans are sounding off following an announcement regarding changes to the league’s replay reviews.
The NFL Competition Committee has decided on a rule that will permit replay assistants more leeway to overturn roughing the passer and intentional grounding penalties as of next season.
“The competition committee has long opposed challenges to penalty calls because it essentially substitutes one person’s judgment for another’s,” NFL Network‘s Pelissero shared to X. “This is much more narrow, but another step toward empowering the replay assistant to fix clear and obvious mistakes.“
Changes that allow penalty calls to be reviewable tend to remind fans of the time the league had pass interference under the scanner. The rule was binned after just one year because of the call being upheld on the field more times than not although there were many instances where evidence showed otherwise.
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Fans have offered all sorts of responses to the change. You can see some of the reactions right below:
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The Skepticism Over Added Replay Reviews Is Understandable
This isn’t a first for the NFL in terms of a roughing-the-passer experiment.
Hardly a week goes by during the season when there isn’t at least one instance in which a defender gets flagged for what seems like a legal hit on a quarterback. Permitting the call to be corrected does seem like a step in the right direction but skepticism could be forgiven based on how badly things played out when the league tried this with pass interference.
In any case, time will tell how this works out for the game. Fans will hope it’s for the better given the outrage over officiating in recent years. Should it not work out as the owners hope, they will not hesitate to scrap it at the end of the season.
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