NFL likely to consider judgment challenge with penalty disincentive

bouxdag said

ESPN has been saying Coleman “appeared” to be early in all their articles about it, which is hilarious and shows how they’re part of the NFL’s PR campaign.

Why does their need to be a penalty if the team is wrong? You only get 3 challenges anyway. If you want to use one on a judgment call, then so be it.

The game gets slowed down all the time in games where there are lots of reviewable calls on turnovers or scoring plays. No one cares. But the league and or fans act like a coach challenging a PI is going to add an extra hour to the game.

Some of the crazy 50-50 college games are slow as all get out because they do so many reviews, pass so many times, and change possessions so often. I don’t feel like there’s some huge portion of people saying they can’t watch those games. People love football.

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The league acts like they don't already use the replay official in the booth to decide intentional grounding calls. The flags for that are rarely ever thrown right when the pass is thrown. The replay official in the booth checks to see if the QB was out of the pocket, if the ball crossed the line of scrimmage and if there was a receiver in the area. Just because the refs are huddled up and talking doesn't mean they're making the final decision on the call since there's no way they could possibly be certain of all the moving parts on that penalty and they rely on the replay official now. Funny how they never seem to get that call wrong now too, when they'd often screw it up before there was a replay official in the booth. The same could be done for pass interference and the game wouldn't be slowed down at all. It would take a replay official like 20 seconds to review the call or no call.