Also, why are some plays automatically NOT reviewable? The point is to get calls right. Why are some plays exempt from this safeguard to “get it right”?

Actually, if you want to do replay right, have a couple of people in the booth closely watching the plays, and, if something on any play looks amiss, they could take a quick look before the next play and, if necessary, stop the game for a quick decision, and it WOULD be quick if the decision was made only in the booth. It’s absurd that the home viewer can see multiple angles and often can tell a bad call has been made well BEFORE the announcement that the game is being paused for replay. The replay system is too slow because it’s not done in the booth.

That being said, these were the worst refs (including the replacements) I have seen all season. Just watched the replay and it was pathetic. Both ways. The refs should be fined and suspended.

Are you freaking kidding me?!? Send down EVERY AND ALL angles you have to the ref. Give the ref every single piece of video on the call so that said ref can make the a full comprehensive decision.

Or, as others have suggested, have a central replay official who oversees all the games at once, a la the NHL.

@sarcasm ….Luck was down and therefore no throw was ever made. Is it that hard to understand?

Judgement calls should be reviewable or the definition of a judgement call should be changed as well.”

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Agreed. Also, as I mentioned previously in another post, I think the “inadvertent whistle” rule needs to be looked at as well. That one basically amounts to a ref being able to stop play anytime he wants by simply blowing his whistle. Nothing after that matters nor can it be reviewed. It’s treated as though it’s just a refs mistake and that’s how it goes.

Pete Morelli will still find a way to make one or more appallingly bad calls that completely change the complexion of the game.

However, to his benefit, Morelli and his crew show absolutely no favoritism; they’re consistently incompentent week in and week out, so every team gets screwed equally.

Nothing worse then a ref blowing a replay.

Lots of calls are reviewed and called wrong because it’s not “indisputable”.

You could argue Luck was down, you could argue he wasn’t. But he was most likely down. Given the fraction of a second it took for his knee to hit and the ball to have been released. So because the call was made on field as a TD they had to see “indisputable” evidence.

This isn’t a murder trial, beyond a reasonable doubt is far too strict for a football game.

If it looks like the guy was down, then call him down. Stop with this life or death attitude and just say, “if it looks like the player is down and the booth ref and field ref agree, call it”

Simple fix.