NFL Replay Policy

[CT1]

Originally Posted by FormerUmp

He loses possession prior to going out of bounds, but he doesn't lose contact with the ball until just after his foot contacts the sideline. You can see the ball "squeeze" off his fingertips just after his foot hits the ground around 1:27 in the video.

Check the angle shown at 2:02. There is clearly daylight between his hand and the ball just before his foot touches OOB.

[FormerUmp]

Originally Posted by CT1

Check the angle shown at 2:02. There is clearly daylight between his hand and the ball just before his foot touches OOB.

Video needs more frames to be conclusive. Start-stopping it at .25x speed it skips from in his hand with his foot almost on the ground to full foot on the ground and clear daylight.

[ajmc]

Originally Posted by FormerUmp

Video needs more frames to be conclusive. Start-stopping it at .25x speed it skips from in his hand with his foot almost on the ground to full foot on the ground and clear daylight.

Declaring you are seeking perfection, doesn't mean you're ever going to find it, and Instant Replay is a great example of just how far perfection can stay beyond one's grasp.

Has IR eliminated doubt and argument, or just changed it? Thankfully, at (most) interscholastic levels absolute perfection although always hoped for, and often demanded, is not required or (truly) expected.

Somehow, the contest manages to continue, the teams adapt and the challenge (and the beat) goes on.

Has IR materially improved anything, or just shifted who's arguing about what?

[FormerUmp]

Originally Posted by ajmc

Declaring you are seeking perfection, doesn't mean you're ever going to find it, and Instant Replay is a great example of just how far perfection can stay beyond one's grasp.

Has IR eliminated doubt and argument, or just changed it? Thankfully, at (most) interscholastic levels absolute perfection although always hoped for, and often demanded, is not required or (truly) expected.

Somehow, the contest manages to continue, the teams adapt and the challenge (and the beat) goes on.

Has IR materially improved anything, or just shifted who's arguing about what?

I like instant replay to fix the obvious miss. To make the call that "50 people in a bar can agree on." As Blandino would say.

Replay seems to be going in a different direction this year with the new centralized system and Riveron personally making the decisions. I think he's being too technical and in some cases seeing things that just aren't there.