Targeting rule change proposal

[scrounge]

Originally Posted by ilyazhito

I disagree. In real time, when watching the game, I had an incomplete pass. The receiver never controlled the ball, he only muffed it. The muff did not change the status of the ball (it was a pass). Therefore, the muff hitting the ground results in an incomplete pass. Replay correctly overturned the call.

Replay is not supposed to reofficiate the play - otherwise, just make it into a sky judge instead of replay. It's to correct clear and obvious errors - that's exactly the words used in the rule book. Again, if called incomplete on the field, no beef, but there was nothing clear and obvious to overturn the call on the field. And also again, it's virtually unheard of how many senior officiating leaders have publicly said so, including Rogers Redding.

[ilyazhito]

Clear and obvious is in the eye of the beholder. What is to say that it wasn't clear and obvious to the replay official that the pass was incomplete, just as it was to me? He and I both watched the play once in real time, and came to a decision based on that.