Goodell acknowledges replay review could be centralized Posted by Mike Florio on December 11, 2013, 6:38 PM EST
Getty ImagesOver the weekend, we reported that the NFL has been discussing and will continue to discuss the possibility of taking replay review out of stadiums and moving it to a central location. On Wednesday, at a quarterly ownership meeting in Dallas, Commissioner Roger Goodell acknowledged that such a change is being considered. Per Albert Breer of NFL Network, Goodell acknowledged that V.P. of officiating Dean Blandino could be directly involved in the replay function. “Our number one focus is to make sure we’re providing the best officiating,” Goodell said, via NFL.com. “We always think we can improve. Consistency is important. By bringing it into the league office on Sundays and having one person actually making that decision, you can make an argument there’s consistency.” It looks like that one person would be Blandino. And that makes sense. Since he’s the one who draws the short straw when it comes to explaining the mistakes made by guys like Jeff Triplette, why not just have Blandino make the decisions in the first instance, under circumstances far more conducive to making an efficient and ultimately reliable decision?
Goodell acknowledges replay review could be centralized Posted by Mike Florio on December 11, 2013, 6:38 PM EST
Getty ImagesOver the weekend, we reported that the NFL has been discussing and will continue to discuss the possibility of taking replay review out of stadiums and moving it to a central location. On Wednesday, at a quarterly ownership meeting in Dallas, Commissioner Roger Goodell acknowledged that such a change is being considered. Per Albert Breer of NFL Network, Goodell acknowledged that V.P. of officiating Dean Blandino could be directly involved in the replay function. “Our number one focus is to make sure we’re providing the best officiating,” Goodell said, via NFL.com. “We always think we can improve. Consistency is important. By bringing it into the league office on Sundays and having one person actually making that decision, you can make an argument there’s consistency.” It looks like that one person would be Blandino. And that makes sense. Since he’s the one who draws the short straw when it comes to explaining the mistakes made by guys like Jeff Triplette, why not just have Blandino make the decisions in the first instance, under circumstances far more conducive to making an efficient and ultimately reliable decision?
lol that's funny.
To rig games more.
I thought the number one focus was "player safety"?
Going under the hood is really stupid though . The way college does it works fine , it's easier and actually much faster .
Yeah...let's make it even easier to rig the games by making reviews decided by a faceless dictator. When the decision maker is invisible, it's much easier to avoid any kind of responsibility or ownership of horrible game changing calls.
Yeah , because the league really holds them responsible for any bad calls now . ::)You think you have control simply because you can see the guy sticking his head under the hood ? LOLIf the league wanted to rig the games , they can rig games right now , and there isn't a damn thing you can do about it . Speeding the game up by having a crew dedicated to replay isn't going to change that.
The league does already rig the game. This just makes it easier.
For one thing the refs on the field have headsets to those same evil faceless people in the booth ......just as easy to rig . For another thing , if the fix was in , they would put the Dummy Crew on the game , and they'd have their instructions beforehand on which team to help.All you are doing is slowing the game down . The college system works much better.
Good it needs to be. These on field morons are idiots.
I know morw about football rules than these clowns ever will. Pay me 200K a year to officiate 16 games a year.
Bucko40: "These on field morons are idiots."Very perceptive.
Could be an improvement, maybe they can scrape up a handful of guys that know the rules, to make it work. It would be easier than finding over a hundred guys that are competent to work each venue. Speed is the key though, but I believe they can find a way to make it work.
The way it is now needs to go no matter what, it's a waste of time.Do they really expect this deluded, egotistical clowns they call officials to go into a review booth and objectively look at a play or the more likely option use it to find any way that they can to back up the BS call they just made, these guys don't want to admit they're wrong so they are the wrong people doing the reviews.
They should take a page out of the Rugby way of using the Video ref. In Rugby, the referee asks the video ref a particular question, and the video ref either confirms or denies the question. E.g was there grounding of the ball for a try, yes or no? Video ref checks the replays and either confirms or denies. I think this would actually make video replay a lot better as then it would be a clear question with a clear answer and not the somewhat dubious interpretations of the referee.
