Can We Have The NFL Replacements Back, Please?

[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.