Agree with microchipping the ball. The fact that they cannot tell if the ball actually crossed the LoS or got into the EZ and it's up to the refs who have to guess where the ball is under 22 bodies is ridiculous. We clearly have the technology, just put sensors in all the EZ pylons and for the yard/down markers. If ball is crossed, it'll the markers will light up.
Also, though not to do with the actual game itself, any network/company that shows the same commercial twice in a single commercial break should be never be allowed to show commercials ever again. Getting tired of seeing the same shitty commercial, especially if they're somehow just a minute apart. It should honestly just be illegal.
Agreed on both.
Ball chips would also eliminate or at least make the CHAIN GANG relevant. It's a total joke on how that's considered accurate. It's a pony show to stop the game & march the poles onto the field when spotting of the initial LOS and of the ball is really pretty subjective by refs.
Why is crossing the plane by a sliver of ball a TD when rushing, when a WR practically has to do a dance with the ball when caught for a TD? The improved catch rule helped this a ton, but 1 foot inbounds might just help close this gap & add to some crazy cool highlights. Unsure on this still...just winging it.
No to FGs worth different values - as stated, rewards poor O, or worse...tanking to kill clock then boot long FTW.
I hope they don't eliminate the onside kick or kick returns.
If a coach WINS a challenge there should be zero loss of ability to challenge in the future. Honestly, I'm not sure on this vs. baseball, but in both games, you should be able to win 7 challenges if you're correctly calling out poor initial calls & getting them reversed. Should be able to challenge in final 2 mins if auto fails ya.
Challenges should be shorter and the NY booth refs should be named and put on TV.
IIRC, I heard those booth refs don't always get the same instant replay shots from network that we see on TV. If true, that's a huge prob. Tech should be as good as possible to speed this up. Maybe have each team's tech guy submit a quick clip or two with highlighted area to point out what they want the ref to look at? Again, just spitballing.
Replays improved for fumble recoveries. Stop this archaic piling up and 2 minutes later, guys still fighting beneath the pile for the ball. It's usually clear enough to see who had possession on the ground and was down
before piled up on.
Do whatever it takes to eliminate the pussification penalties for "non"-hits on QBs. IMO Floyd's body slam was a continuation of a tackle and should NOT have been a penalty. That was awesome football IMO. Seems a sack needs to involve a plush pillow with a chocolate mint on it for the QB to land on to not be roughing the passer. Similar at times for hits on WRs. They're not all defenseless but it seems that way. Impossible for DBs to be physical unless they allow a full catch first.
A DE flying by and not even touching a QBs helmet = auto 1st down & 15 yards is just terrible BS and should be challengeable to negate a "ghost penalty".
