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<blockquote data-quote="BrokenArrow" data-source="post: 761795" data-attributes="member: 12225"><p>The actual point here is that the rule and the way it is scrutinized on replay is currently a mess. It's gotten to a point where hardly anyone knows what a catch is anymore. You hear players say it all the time. Last night you heard the confusion in the commentary booth over whether or not Ertz caught the biggest TD of the year. Even though everyone who saw it KNOWS it was a catch, you had to wonder if it was going to be erased because of micro-analysis that might reveal some miniscule technicality. That's a problem! The fact is that Goodell has called on the rules committee to clarify and simplify the rules regarding catches. Now, given that those things are likely to be looked at, what is YOUR idea? If you're happy with the constant controversy we have over catches now, just say so and be done with it already. But if you think improvement can be made, what would you do?</p><p></p><p>Now you're right about one thing. Due to the nature of the game, there will never be a perfect rule. As such, there <em>must </em>be an acceptable margin of error. Can we agree on that? So how about this?</p><p></p><p>Leave the rules themselves as they are. Change the replay rules to state that any review of a catch can be replayed from any angle available but it must be judged in real time, keeping the "irrefutable evidence" requirement. If you can't see it clearly in real time, then any slight bobble that may have occurred should probably be considered insignificant. Right now, so many catches are overturned due to evidence that cannot be seen until the video is slowed to 20-25% or even slower. </p><p></p><p>Or perhaps limit the slow motion to no slower than 75% of real time. That would allow the catch to be treated with about the same acceptable margin of error as before the Bert Emanuel nonsense yet still allow obvious mistakes to be corrected. Since they are currently slowing the video down to a frame-by-frame review, they have done nothing but shrink the acceptable margin of error down to imperceptibly tiny slices of time. In its vain attempt at trying to make every single call perfect, the NFL has created a situation where multiple catches are painstakingly analyzed every single game because so few catches now fit within the margin of error they have establish. It is <em>never </em>going to be perfect, so why not increased that margin to what is perceivable on the field by limiting how much the replay can be slowed down and get the game moving along again like it used to? Exceptions could be made solely for the purpose of verifying that a player's feet were in bounds.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="BrokenArrow, post: 761795, member: 12225"] The actual point here is that the rule and the way it is scrutinized on replay is currently a mess. It's gotten to a point where hardly anyone knows what a catch is anymore. You hear players say it all the time. Last night you heard the confusion in the commentary booth over whether or not Ertz caught the biggest TD of the year. Even though everyone who saw it KNOWS it was a catch, you had to wonder if it was going to be erased because of micro-analysis that might reveal some miniscule technicality. That's a problem! The fact is that Goodell has called on the rules committee to clarify and simplify the rules regarding catches. Now, given that those things are likely to be looked at, what is YOUR idea? If you're happy with the constant controversy we have over catches now, just say so and be done with it already. But if you think improvement can be made, what would you do? Now you're right about one thing. Due to the nature of the game, there will never be a perfect rule. As such, there [I]must [/I]be an acceptable margin of error. Can we agree on that? So how about this? Leave the rules themselves as they are. Change the replay rules to state that any review of a catch can be replayed from any angle available but it must be judged in real time, keeping the "irrefutable evidence" requirement. If you can't see it clearly in real time, then any slight bobble that may have occurred should probably be considered insignificant. Right now, so many catches are overturned due to evidence that cannot be seen until the video is slowed to 20-25% or even slower. Or perhaps limit the slow motion to no slower than 75% of real time. That would allow the catch to be treated with about the same acceptable margin of error as before the Bert Emanuel nonsense yet still allow obvious mistakes to be corrected. Since they are currently slowing the video down to a frame-by-frame review, they have done nothing but shrink the acceptable margin of error down to imperceptibly tiny slices of time. In its vain attempt at trying to make every single call perfect, the NFL has created a situation where multiple catches are painstakingly analyzed every single game because so few catches now fit within the margin of error they have establish. It is [I]never [/I]going to be perfect, so why not increased that margin to what is perceivable on the field by limiting how much the replay can be slowed down and get the game moving along again like it used to? Exceptions could be made solely for the purpose of verifying that a player's feet were in bounds. [/QUOTE]
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