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it has but full time refs does not change the underlying issueReffing does seem worse this year though in NFL.
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it has but full time refs does not change the underlying issueReffing does seem worse this year though in NFL.
If the scoring gets out of hand you tweak a rule (or rules). Maybe give the defenders 10 yards to "chuck" receivers. They still can't grab or push off, though. Also, the rules must apply to receivers as well as defenders. No more free lunch for those guys.The unpopular reality is you could call a hold on 90%+ of the snaps right now, as to push off, then eliminate hand fighting and we then get Arena Football scores, its bad enough already. Hell no different than the college game to be honest. To me the only "fix" is consistency and not just week to week but down by down.
If you give a professional WR 10 yards before contact just play flag football. It’s plain pitch and catch and final score 59-48 each weekend. It’s not a technology thing is just making calls consistent. The league changed the rules to emphasize scoring, people hated 14-10 games. So that gets us to today.If the scoring gets out of hand you tweak a rule (or rules). Maybe give the defenders 10 yards to "chuck" receivers. They still can't grab or push off, though. Also, the rules must apply to receivers as well as defenders. No more free lunch for those guys.
The technology and the rules as written cannot coexist; we've proven this, time and time again. So we either update the rules to meet the technology or we dumb down the tech to meet the rules.
You can't show me 15 super-slow-mo angles in 4K definition and then tell me your only choice is to adjudicate the game by whatever a handful of old men can see in real time at eye level. I may not be the smartest vegetable in the garden, but I'm smarter than that.
No, you don't "tweak" the rules because a group of folks wants an exact outcome to each situation, the technology as you call it should have never been brought in, to begin with.If the scoring gets out of hand you tweak a rule (or rules). Maybe give the defenders 10 yards to "chuck" receivers. They still can't grab or push off, though. Also, the rules must apply to receivers as well as defenders. No more free lunch for those guys.
The technology and the rules as written cannot coexist; we've proven this, time and time again. So we either update the rules to meet the technology or we dumb down the tech to meet the rules.
You can't show me 15 super-slow-mo angles in 4K definition and then tell me your only choice is to adjudicate the game by whatever a handful of old men can see in real time at eye level. I may not be the smartest vegetable in the garden, but I'm smarter than that.
Even if rules and written in black and white there will always be a grey area for interpretation. Hell in baseball the strike zone is probably the most black and white rules in sports and get abused by umps daily. In the NBA what’s a foul, block or charge? All subjective but the rules are very black and white. NFL is no different. WR in a route and gets hand checked at 6 yds, rule says 5 but flag gets thrown. You can’t legislate that. In many cases it’s human error. I’m many cases it’s interpretation. You technically can call an offensive hold on 90% of the snaps."Whiny fans." Blow me. What's next, You gonna tell me to get off your lawn? You may be fine with garbage... I'm not. There are far too many bad, blown, completely missed, game affecting calls every week that just don't have to be there anymore.
"I want to stay in the dark because we've been in the dark for a hundred years" just doesn't work for me.