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What they should change is plays subject to automatic review. If a guy reaches for the pylon and barely crosses the plane of the goal line, it's subject to automatic review if ruled a TD on the field, but not subject to automatic review if he's ruled down on the 1. Same thing if a guy makes a catch in the back end of the end zone and maybe gets both feet down, but maybe not.
That just doesn't make sense to me.
Similar idea - if it’s ruled a turnover on the field it’s subject to automatic review but if it’s not ruled a turnover, it’s not. That needs to be fixed as well.
The thing about this is it was supposed to be mitigated by having officials err on the side of calling close plays a TD or turnover, triggering the automatic review. I even remember commentary guys talking about this during games the first year the rule was active.
I'm not so sure officials are keeping that in mind anymore.