Can We Have The NFL Replacements Back, Please?

[MD Longhorn]

Originally Posted by Eastshire

There's always going to be a line between the referee being sure the player is down and not sure the player is down. It seems to me the NFL referees are waiting until they are 125% sure the player is down to blow there whistle. I'd prefer 105%. You'll sometimes be wrong at either standard but I feel like there's too many replay reversals on these.

Regardless, this particular play I have no problem with there not being a whistle.

Sorry to pick, but this is a pet peeve of mine. 100% means fully and completely. You can't be 105 or 125 percent sure of something. Your point is lost in the meaninglessness.

[Eastshire]

Originally Posted by MD Longhorn

Sorry to pick, but this is a pet peeve of mine. 100% means fully and completely. You can't be 105 or 125 percent sure of something. Your point is lost in the meaninglessness.

And yet, I'm willing to wager you know exactly what I mean and therefore it is not lost.

[MD Longhorn]

Originally Posted by Eastshire

And yet, I'm willing to wager you know exactly what I mean and therefore it is not lost.

Conceptually perhaps, but are you really saying that if an official is 80% sure a player was down, he should blow the whistle? If not... then no, I don't know exactly what you mean. Sure is sure. Not sure is, well, not sure. Currently the line is 100% vs anything else. Not 100% sure = don't blow the whistle... so what do you really mean?

[Eastshire]

Originally Posted by MD Longhorn

Conceptually perhaps, but are you really saying that if an official is 80% sure a player was down, he should blow the whistle? If not... then no, I don't know exactly what you mean. Sure is sure. Not sure is, well, not sure. Currently the line is 100% vs anything else. Not 100% sure = don't blow the whistle... so what do you really mean?

Well, sure isn't sure. I can be pretty sure, sure or even absolute sure. Each is a different level of certainty. I use pretty sure all the time at work when I'm asked for a number I don't have on me.

But, let me give you what I mean in another way. It seems to me that the NFL has instructed the referees not to whistle a play which is subject to automatic review even if they are sure the runner is down unless it will be obvious to the fan in the last row that the runner is down. We just don't see plays whistled were a referee is in position to be sure when it involves turnovers. I think a better standard would be based on what's obvious to a fan in the first row.

Too many seemingly easy calls are getting passed to the automatic review.

[Adam]

Originally Posted by Eastshire

And yet, I'm willing to wager you know exactly what I mean and therefore it is not lost.

I agree 110%.