After Further Review
What is replay really good for, to make us feel good about ourselves? To give us a sense of security, a false one, but the feeling nonetheless? I really think that’s the only reason, to make us feel warm and fuzzy. Not to get it right because far too often “they” don’t. The refs, the coaches, it’s a joke how often the lot of them are wrong. I frequently kid around w/ my friend about how we get it right at home 85% -95% of the time. The rules are easy: wait until you see the replay a few times from a few angles, cross check the results (an 8 year old can see) from the replays just seen with the call on the field, if they match up it stands, if it’s obvious one way or another it goes that way, other than that it stays how it was called. It’s simple and easy with little to no error, but like arguing with a woman it will probably go nowhere. See, if you add logic and common sense, it just gums up the works. I’m not sure the football watching public would be so irate if the mistakes the NFL elite made were actual mistakes instead of stupid, unexplainable screw-ups. And why we’re at it take that Broncos / Chargers call from the beginning of the season , the Refs should never have the power to blow something like that dead. That has to be looked at in the off-season, which I think it will be. Hello NFL wake up you are starting to ruin the league. The Ravens / Steelers TD in week 15 was really a very bad bad overturn because it just was not overwhelmingly a TD, but it’s far from the worst call we’ve seen in the past several years. NFL get with it, replay as it is in its current form is not working. Oh yeah and a word to all NFL teams, a simple TIVO or DVR in the booth would help you tremendously. How teams get it wrong so often is truly beyond me. But it’s a catch 22 because when conventional wisdom says no way will it get overturned a team takes a flyer, and what do the refs do every now and again… you guessed it, they give hope and overturn a call that had no business being overturned. Which then leads to plenty more bad challenges, longer games, angry fans and stupid officials making more mistakes because they have more chances to show their intelligence, or lack thereof.
Glenn Younes
Sirius XM Satellite Radio
Glenn Younes
Sirius XM Satellite Radio
posted by G-Blog at
5:07 PM
3 Comments:
Couple of thoughts:
1) You nailed it on the head with the standard of review, if it is an obvious mistake fix it, if not the call stands. They do not need a rule change to do this though - that's already the rule. They should fine/suspend/punish replay officials and referees who break this rule.
2) nitpick- but the Broncos/Chargers game was not due to a bad replay. Houchuli screwed up and blew the play dead too early - he even admitted as much. Replay cannot fix this problem, the ref always has to make jusgements about when the play is over, and you need to blow a whistle for player safety when it is. You also can't have people playing past the whistle for safety reasons as well.
never said the play was due to replay just don't think the Refs should be able to blow that type of play dead....
The refs should know the game that they are officiating period. When Coleman said some stupid rational about Holmes’ feet in the endzone, I know it was over. For that play to be a touchdown there needed to be “indisputable visual evidence” that the ball touched the plane of the endzone and it is hard to say that there was. Whether he was looking at the wrong thing or not, we will never know. But, for that to change the outcome of the game is wrong.
Things could be worse though…you could be a Redskins fan like me.
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