New NFL Competition Committee Proposals

Deus Irae said:

One asinine rule change passed:



Teams can now choose to enforce celebration penalties on the kickoff or PAT

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Next year’s proposal: make celebrations reviewable.

Ice_Ice_Brady said:

Next year’s proposal: make celebrations reviewable.

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Or have the officials review them and give them a grade from 1-10. Anything rated higher than 7 receives an additional point on the scoreboard. Bonus points for technical difficulty.

luuked said:

Not a fan because as I have stated multiple times in the past the consequence would be absurd **** like this:





Have fun with people looking in slow-motion at every little contact between a WR and DB in the future.

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If the ref calls it against you, you’re allowed to attempt a 4th and 15 to reverse the ruling.

It's dumb to only use replay with fouls that flags are thrown. This is half of the loaf.
If the refs throw flags on everything close the games will be 30 - 45 minutes longer.

Too many bad calls.

Get better refs. Add a couple of extra refs.
This is on the league.

Brewskies said:

It's dumb to only use replay with fouls that flags are thrown. This is half of the loaf.
If the refs throw flags on everything close the games will be 30 - 45 minutes longer.

Too many bad calls.

Get better refs. Add a couple of extra refs.
This is on the league.

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They can review plays without flags

I still think all reviews should be at regular speed, not slo-mo. Catch the egregious misses and let the rest go.

luuked said:

Not a fan because as I have stated multiple times in the past the consequence would be absurd **** like this:





Have fun with people looking in slow-motion at every little contact between a WR and DB in the future.

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Of course the competition committee thinks this. Picked an example to slam the Pats. Duh!

It's an obvious reaction to the Saints-Rams game, but I think it's funny they passed this the second Gronk left.

Problem is the unintended consequences here. Get a fast receiver whose only role is to draw DPI, send him on a fly route downfield three times, and he's going to get interfered with at least once. It just happens. Giving the refs a certain amount of leeway to let them play is fine because the letter of the law is pretty narrow. It's a free 50 yards two or three times a game if you want to take it.

primetime said:

It's an obvious reaction to the Saints-Rams game, but I think it's funny they passed this the second Gronk left.

Problem is the unintended consequences here. Get a fast receiver whose only role is to draw DPI, send him on a fly route downfield three times, and he's going to get interfered with at least once. It just happens. Giving the refs a certain amount of leeway to let them play is fine because the letter of the law is pretty narrow. It's a free 50 yards two or three times a game if you want to take it.

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Everyone disagrees on PI, even in slo-mo

luuked said:

Have fun with people looking in slow-motion at every little contact between a WR and DB in the future.

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Enh. I thought at the time it was pretty blatant, but Gilmore -- as a crafty vet -- knew he'd be able to get away with it because Cooks's body and his own body were shielding it from the refs. He grabbed and held Cooks's arm clearly before the ball arrived, preventing him from using that arm to secure the ball. If a Rams DB did that to a NE WR people here would have been having conniptions and talking about how the NYJFL was conspiring to rob the Patriots.

primetime said:

It's an obvious reaction to the Saints-Rams game, but I think it's funny they passed this the second Gronk left.

Problem is the unintended consequences here. Get a fast receiver whose only role is to draw DPI, send him on a fly route downfield three times, and he's going to get interfered with at least once. It just happens. Giving the refs a certain amount of leeway to let them play is fine because the letter of the law is pretty narrow. It's a free 50 yards two or three times a game if you want to take it.

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See, John Elway does know what he's doing, he now has the perfect QB for this.....

QuantumMechanic said:

Enh. I thought at the time it was pretty blatant, but Gilmore -- as a crafty vet -- knew he'd be able to get away with it because Cooks's body and his own body were shielding it from the refs. He grabbed and held Cooks's arm clearly before the ball arrived, preventing him from using that arm to secure the ball. If a Rams DB did that to a NE WR people here would have been having conniptions and talking about how the NYJFL was conspiring to rob the Patriots.

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I don't know, my Rams fan friend didn't think it was DPI then and still doesn't even with the NFL saying it was, but I'll also agree with the implied notion that Patsfans dot com posters tend towards being unhinged.

Okay the replay experiment should be over. It didn’t work. It leads to expectations of perfect calls. Get rid of replay...the league was fine without it.

Although technically that may be PI on Cooks, but it happens every single pass attempt. In order to fix the problem they need to adjust the rules to allow what is already occurring on every play anyway, instead of allowing a replay in the last 2 minutes of a play that was allowed the whole rest of the game.

They are really going to review PI and non-PI calls. The one play, in all of sports, that should probably never be subject to any review other than a "Holy ****! Stevie Wonder could have seen that while watching from another planet!" level of non-call so egregious that it cries out for the commissioner to step in (See Saints v. Rams), and they're actually going to make it part of the general reviews.

There aren't enough face palms in the world.

According to NFLN, BB spoke in favor of this rule change.

Glad the Patriots dynasty happened before the league collapsed into itself.

Tunescribe said:

According to NFLN, BB spoke in favor of this rule change.

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BB wants everything to be reviewable.

Gilmore did interfere with Cooks on that play. Replay is really a secondary issue. The primary issue is consistency of what’s called and what’s not.

Whether it benefits the Patriots or hurts them. I want to see games called more accurately across the board. I want to see games played cleaner with fewer penalties committed overall and not just fewer called.

It’s starts with the official’s call or no call. I fear the emphasis on review masks the need for more calls being made right by the field officials in the first place.

A side effect of making PI and OPI reviewable under the challenge system is that it will go a long way to preventing coaches from challenging things earlier in the game because they’ll want to hold onto their challenges for that 4o yard no call DPI in the 4th quarter. Fewer bad calls will be corrected during the course of the game, and we all know a bad call in the 2nd can be as impactful as a bad call at the end.

QuantumMechanic said:

Enh. I thought at the time it was pretty blatant, but Gilmore -- as a crafty vet -- knew he'd be able to get away with it because Cooks's body and his own body were shielding it from the refs. He grabbed and held Cooks's arm clearly before the ball arrived, preventing him from using that arm to secure the ball. If a Rams DB did that to a NE WR people here would have been having conniptions and talking about how the NYJFL was conspiring to rob the Patriots.

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Funny, i don’t recall the national outcry over this: