Comments on: Instant replay could be changed, again

By: cidman2001

cidman2001 — Thu, 22 Mar 2012 03:13:04 +0000

It’s simple. If a knowledgeable fan can make the call, half tanked in their living room, with limited views of network feeds…..It would seem a ref or two in a booth with multiple screens could make the call and radio down to the field before the next snap. How many times do you hear the fans make the right call when it comes on the Jumbotron? I also don’t think the booth guys should have any limitations as to what type of calls they can make as long as they call down before the next snap. If a guy breaks a 35 yard rumble because of a hold that a ref missed on the field, why would you not want someone to call that? Especially when it’s blatantly obvious. It makes the game and the refs look foolish. Why didn’t they call that? Well, the rules don’t allow for a replay on THOSE types of blown calls…….what is that?

By: jeziyo247

jeziyo247 — Thu, 22 Mar 2012 00:05:39 +0000

Another thing they need to do is let plays play out before blowing the whistle so fasts. I’ve seen games to where there was a fumble and the officials blow the whistle, making it a dead play and not able to be challenged

By: Deb

Deb — Wed, 21 Mar 2012 23:57:57 +0000

Please, please, please let these dingdongs adopt the Bills’ suggestion. Enough with the interminable stepping-under-the-hood nonsense. How bright to you have to be to see that’s an ineffective method of reviewing plays that slows down the progress of the game?

By: righthereisay

righthereisay — Wed, 21 Mar 2012 22:08:31 +0000

Too little. Still need to review:
1. Interference penalties – should take 5-10 seconds, save a team 50 yards on a bad call.
2. Personal Fouls – these guys are flying around 500 mph, no way can the refs get every one of these right…also no need to flag the guy who hits back. A review would show who threw the first punch, giving the penalty to the right team.

By: jgedgar70

jgedgar70 — Wed, 21 Mar 2012 21:56:55 +0000

I’m OK with this under a couple of conditions:

1) All game officials, field and booth, are full-time employees that spend at least 25 hours a week watching film and making sure they know all the rules forwards and backwards.

2) Once you make all the officials full-time, ensure there is a standard performance appraisal system to ensure the most competent people are doing the job. If I recall correctly, one of the drawbacks to the first incarnation of instant replay was that the 1,000-year-old men masquerading as replay booth officials couldn’t communicate effectively with the 80-year-old field officials.

By: LoCoSu@%s

LoCoSu@%s — Wed, 21 Mar 2012 21:55:50 +0000

Just amazing. The league has some of the brightest minds that can come up with mind boggling rules for salary cap, creative offensive and defensive schemes but they cannot figure out if a play is a touchdown or not OR the rules to determine when to review.
Sheer incompetence. Maybe Fuhrer Goodell should spend a little more time looking into this aspect of the game?

By: lackofsuprise

lackofsuprise — Wed, 21 Mar 2012 21:48:02 +0000

Man this game is getting slower than Baseball.

By: squared80

squared80 — Wed, 21 Mar 2012 21:26:26 +0000

Putting it in the booth would make is more efficient.

By: cup0pizza

cup0pizza — Wed, 21 Mar 2012 21:21:58 +0000

The NFL replay system is stupid.

By: mackie66

mackie66 — Wed, 21 Mar 2012 21:01:29 +0000

Why is everything in the NFL so damned difficult? Replay every play in the booth with a set of NFL officials. If the play needs to be reversed they will buzz the head umpire who will reverse the call, ,no need to get “under the hood” let the crew tell the ump weither the play is good or not, wont take much time and in fact should speed up the game compared to todays ugly replay rules.

By: Adam Tabaka

Adam Tabaka — Wed, 21 Mar 2012 20:58:04 +0000

How about letting fans decide by texting U (upheld) or O (overturned) to 58473 for a $.99 charge?

By: dallas001

dallas001 — Wed, 21 Mar 2012 20:55:42 +0000

Leave it in the hands of the officials. Game is becoming too cumbersome. Also, calls coming from a booth… sounds potentially fishy…………

By: mortimeryoung

mortimeryoung — Wed, 21 Mar 2012 20:28:16 +0000

I actually agree with the author, for once. If they’re going to have instant replay they can accomplish it easier from upstairs.

By: eddddddd

eddddddd — Wed, 21 Mar 2012 20:28:00 +0000

Instant replay decisions stated in the booth in the 80s and were a joke. How is moving it back there going to help?

By: trojanwarrior007

trojanwarrior007 — Wed, 21 Mar 2012 20:27:13 +0000

adopt the College system.

By: irishnativeson

irishnativeson — Wed, 21 Mar 2012 20:26:24 +0000

Not sure how “extra commercial breaks during games = more advertising money = happier, richer NFL brass” TV contracts are already in place the only ones possibly benefiting would be the networks broadcasting games.

By: cincyorangenblack

cincyorangenblack — Wed, 21 Mar 2012 20:24:38 +0000

if you took it to the booth, that would cut down on TV timeouts and Ad Revenue….good look convincing Goodell

By: lionsfan2014

lionsfan2014 — Wed, 21 Mar 2012 20:21:52 +0000

Why not go the NHL route and have a single “command center” that reviews and rules on all instant replay plays. That way there will the most amount of consistency, city to city and week to week.

By: rascalmanny

rascalmanny — Wed, 21 Mar 2012 20:19:20 +0000

If the refs could get calls right on instant replays then none of this would be needed.

Like when the replay shows a clear fumble yet the ref STILL says it’s not.

By: binkystevens

binkystevens — Wed, 21 Mar 2012 20:19:18 +0000

Great. More replays means more commercials. No wonder they want it!

By: youngry

youngry — Wed, 21 Mar 2012 20:18:52 +0000

This is ridiculous. If you’re going to review scoring plays and turnovers, then you have to review potential scoring plays and turnovers also. Either review it all or not.

Not reviewing potential scoring and turnover plays puts referees on the hot seat and makes them err on the side of calling it a turnover or score and let it go to replay instead of calling it like they see it.

Why does the NFL not grasp this?

By: Soulman45

Soulman45 — Wed, 21 Mar 2012 20:18:51 +0000

Be copy cats the collage seem to get it right copy off them.

By: jdandcoke

jdandcoke — Wed, 21 Mar 2012 20:18:04 +0000

continued

$10 bucks a game to watch it with only half the commercials.

By: jdandcoke

jdandcoke — Wed, 21 Mar 2012 20:17:08 +0000

td40 says:Mar 21, 2012 4:07 PM

I’m sure this has nothing to do with the possibility of extra commercial breaks during games = more advertising money = happier, richer NFL brass. Very sure.

bingo. watching an nfl game nowadays flat out blows thanks to the incessant commercials. personally, id rather pay

By: ike1973

ike1973 — Wed, 21 Mar 2012 20:16:32 +0000

Two words. College system.

By: billinva

billinva — Wed, 21 Mar 2012 20:13:38 +0000

Yes, move it all to the booth!

If only to shut Ed Hocules fat mouth up!

By: nflfollower

nflfollower — Wed, 21 Mar 2012 20:13:09 +0000

All “potential” scoring plays need to be reviewed by the booth real time. It’s embarrassing when an entire national TV audience sees 2 feet down in the end zone and the refs blow the call.

By: bearsstillsuck

bearsstillsuck — Wed, 21 Mar 2012 20:12:11 +0000

More replays ate a bad thing. Keep human error as part of the game.

By: lilb360

lilb360 — Wed, 21 Mar 2012 20:11:33 +0000

I hate instant replay. It takes the human element out of the game. Calls go for and against my team and I’m good with that. I hate the fact that they already slow the game down with the current replay system.

By: gf2711

gf2711 — Wed, 21 Mar 2012 20:11:14 +0000

In the NHL, all reviews are handled through an office in Toronto, not even on site of the game. Up in a booth is good, but putting a replay office in NYC would be better.