And because this is a league with a single-spaced, size 10 font, 89-page rule book, this will not be simple. Coaches will be reticent to risk a valuable timeout in a close contest without the obvious video evidence to make a game-altering change.īut it only takes one instance of a bent or broken rule to make the NFL look stupid. Any replay flag in the final two minutes would already be filtered by one set of officials or possibly two - the ones on the field and the ones in the replay booth if the committee keeps the booth review intact on top of the coaches’ challenge. It’s a small change that shouldn’t have much of an impact on the field.
didn’t change the policy themselves, they effectively kicked it back to the rules committee for tweaking - likely giving coaches the unprecedented power to challenge interference calls and no-calls in the final two minutes of either half. And while Robert Kraft, Jerry Jones, et al. NFL owners gathered at their annual May to discuss rule changes and other proposals, with the complicated PI rule at the top of their to-do list. It lasted less than two months before getting its first adjustment. The NFL’s plan to make pass interference penalties (and non-penalties) reviewable by instant replay was voted into existence at a league meeting in March. Update: The NFL wisely decided (at least for 2019) that a Hail Mary won’t be treated any differently than other pass plays.
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