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A simple idea to fix the horrendous officiating in the NFL

GenericMind

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They should just just ban the no-huddle offense. They can then have 2-3 people up in the booth, all on separate monitors, run the replay(slow motion if necessary) and determine what the call should be and relay it to the head ref if there was a mistake before the offense even breaks their next huddle. Do team's use no huddle sometimes strategically? Sure. But the impact of not letting them do that would be vastly outweighed by having timely correct calls so we don't have the freakshow and ridiculous delays we had last night. I'm not suggesting these people monitoring tell the refs what call they should be making on every play, just that they quickly review and correct any big or game-changing mistakes. They probably would only need to communicate corrections to the refs 1-3 times a game.

Even us at home can see several slow-motion replays on our TVs before the ball is hiked on the next play. Paying 2-3 people to do that and only that in the booth with all the technology available to the NFL would be even quicker and it would virtually eliminate BS calls regarding TDs, out of bounds, catch or no catch, etc.

And since all plays are reviewed within the final two minutes of the game, you can make an exception to the rule to allow teams to no-huddle after the last two minute warning so it wouldn't change the dynamic of teams' 2 minute hurry up offenses.
 
Upset over last night's game I see. Ive heard this mentioned on various sports shows but dont like it. Its an edge a team can get over others. It isnt the offenses fault the defense isnt prepared. Besides didnt the Bills utilize the no huddle a lot in the Jim Kelly years?
 
Er, not really. I already said in the NFL thread that the officiating was just terrible overall in last night's game and I didn't blame it for the Bills' loss.

They didn't have the replay technology they have today 25 years ago so what Jim Kelly did isn't really relevant. Who cares if it gives offenses an advantage over defenses? So does holding if it doesn't get called.
 
I agree with the officiating being terrible this year. No way should the hurry up offense be banned. Its part of the game at this point. Seems like a good idea to have a few people in the booth to change calls that were totally missed or blown.
 
Holding is an illegal advantage. No team gameplans against that O-line who is better at holding than anyone else but if you dont practice for a hurryup, it is on you, not the team going no huddle. All defenses practice this anyway against the 2 minute drill so they know what they are supposed to do at a minimal level. If you arent prepared for a wider range of plays in a non-2 minute drill no huddle or in worse physical condition and cant keep up with a prolonged one, that just means you are worse than your opponent.

Its like the shift in baseball which people hate far more than the no huddle. If you cannot teach a pro baseball player, or even worse learn as one to drop a bunt or go the other way, tough shit. You deserve to ground out to shallow right field. Same goes for pro football players against the no huddle.
 
Sure you can. Before the early 90s the NFL got along fine without the no huddle offense.

There have been a lot of terrible game-altering calls this season that weren't just bad penalties. Allowing penalties to be challenged wouldn't solve the problem, though it'd help.
 
no huddle is such a big a part of the game now that they would never take it out. I think that's the only thing they would do to help bad refereeing.

and that bad call at the end of the pats-bills game isnt gonna be solved by this (i thought for sure it was going to at least be reviewed). the refs just need to be better. we should be thankful (its thanksgiving) for not having soccer or nba level reffing tho

cant wait till we get robot refs that never miss a call
 
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