ORLANDO, Fla. — NFL owners agreed Tuesday to push the trade deadline back one week to the Tuesday after Week 9 and authorized a significant expansion of the league’s replay assistance program.
Three categories of penalties (intentional ground call, roughing the passer, and out-of-bounds hits) have been added to the list of plays that replay assist can advise referees on.
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Additionally, they also agreed to allow teams to use a practice squad player as their emergency No. 3 quarterback on game days, after requiring that player to be an existing member of the 53-man roster last season. . The avalanche of moves came on a day when they also approved a massive revamp of the kickoff.
The NFL will now allow replay officials to move into the penalty area for the first time. They will not be allowed to initiate a formal review for intentional punishment, roughing the passer, or hits out of bounds. Nor can they suggest throwing a flag. But they will be allowed to suggest a real-time reversal of a penalty in “specific and objective aspects of a play when there is clear and obvious video evidence,” according to the rule. Previously, replay officials advised officials on decisions such as catch/no-catch, possession and contact drop, advice that on-field officials could accept or reject.
The intentionally incomplete pass was a play that drew particular attention from the committee after referees threw 62 flags for it in 2023, the most in a season since at least 2000. But the expansion of replay assist was also driven by cases in which, for example, a defender was called for roughing the passer due to a hit to the head when replays showed the contact was clearly lower. It’s a step toward creating the NFL’s own version of a “sky judge,” but one that gives the referee on the field the final say.
“[El pase intencionalmente incompleto] It was a difficult decision,” said competition committee chairman Rich McKay. “This was not our best decision because there are so many elements to it and it becomes a team penalty. I mean, literally, you will always see that the referee has to intervene. He will bring a linesman, he will bring a downs judge, they will consult him. In this case we just like the person in the ear to be able to say, ‘Yes, he was in the pocket or not.’ And then if he needs to help with something else, he helps only with what we said he could do in the objective findings.
“But for us, this is where replay assistance can go because there was the concept that [el entrenador de los Baltimore Ravens, John Harbaugh, y el entrenador de los Kansas City Chiefs, Andy Reid] They promoted and we talked about years ago, which was this idea of the judge from heaven. We have always countered that the game has to be refereed on the field. It simply has to be refereed on the field. There are too many things happening. But we like the concept of it and the idea that replay assist can play a role in getting decisions right, and this is just another step in that.”
In addition to the expansion of replay attendance, the change in the trade deadline and the adjustment of the third quarterback, NFL owners on Tuesday also approved a second consecutive preseason test to provide the “Eye” replay video of hawk (“Hawk-Eye”) to be seen in the coaches’ booths instead of just the broadcast video of a game. The program will expand to the regular season in 2025.
On Monday, the owners approved a ban on the spin tackle and hip drop technique and allowed teams to win a third challenge after a successful challenge during a game.
2024-03-26 21:40:46
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