The Athletic - Breaking down some questionable decisions

It's making a complete mockery of the sport. Either you can overturn it or you can't. If you have it on the books actually overturn the calls once in a while.

That’s special for him. Most coaches learn and adapt. Glad to see Shurmur adamantly bucking that trend!

That rule needs to be wiped out. What other league actually announces that the goal of replay is not to get it right, but just fix the most appalling of mistakes while admittedly allowing other mistakes to stand?

is that the NFL is warning you that it is an impotent challenge and it will generally not work. If you are smart you will read through their corruption and realize that they created this arrangement as a prop to cover for their corruption in that Saints fiasco last season. The TV networks sell this caution too.

NFL were exposed so they had to do something, but that something will not give any coach or team control over their decisions. This is a business and I believe they (NFL) really wanted the Rams in the SB. That owner is pretty wealthy and needed to be rewarded for dumping St Louis and moving to LA.

I think they are a bit out of touch with what a turn off this is for the fans. I can't believe the shit isn't hitting the fan over this but I guess it's not. it's honestly perplexing.

just like they do at the end of the game have someone in the booth stop the game and review it. Of course it would have to be obvious pass interference. No the coach throws the flag and you lose a timeout. Great solution screw the team of a time out because the Refs suck.

But losing challenges is not an issue for me. He has been right on just about every one. And what’s he losing? His right to make another challenge that probably won’t be successful? Who cares.

are viewing this PI challenge nonsense is stupid. The record of overturned PI calls makes you wonder if they would have even overturned the PI call in the NFC championship game last year...which is why this whole thing came about.

were not overturned then unless a DB comes out and tackles to the ground a WR nothing will be overturned.

He is stubborn, even if he is correct. Yesterday was worth the challenge. That was clearly egregious.

It is clear the officials are thumbing their noses at the league and rules committee. Riveron should be fired as a warning, but Goodell is spineless.

But Shurmur should not bother anymore, it is a waste of our time and timeout.

In comment 14637999 ron mexico said:

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But losing challenges is not an issue for me. He has been right on just about every one. And what’s he losing? His right to make another challenge that probably won’t be successful? Who cares.

You know, the past several weeks I'm on board with Shurmur not being the right guy for us, but I keep saying that I'm glad he's making those challenges.

If only to have the refs come out and deny an actual bad call happened. When they finally do reverse one - they are going to look ridiculous. Well, even moreso than now.

The worst part is he's been right about every one of those calls being horseshit. And he's lost them. at least it had chatter about the one in NE.

this guy can't be gone quick enough for me, but challenging bad calls is not high on my list of complaints.

uproar when they overturn one in the playoffs. You can almost sense it coming. Imagine them not overturning that in a playoff game? People would go apoplectic.

lack of consistency. They should have just scrapped it at the owners meeting if this is the way they want to handle it. They are setting themselves up for failure. I never been of those guys as I love football and figured they could fuck it up royally and I still watch, but I didn't even finish the game last night and it was Philly Dallas. I just saw too much bullshit reffing all day and was burnt out.

Is that for the first time, the NFL has admitted that they are using replay for things other than trying to get the call right. They have admitted they are not reviewing to see if a call should or should not have been made, they are reviewing to protect the reputations of the referees.

Replay itself can be good if used like they do in the college game to simply confirm or change missed calls. The NFL is very adamant that they don't view replay the same way. It's more of a game show feature.

In comment 14638105 FatMan in Charlotte said:

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In comment 14637999 ron mexico said: Quote: But losing challenges is not an issue for me. He has been right on just about every one. And what’s he losing? His right to make another challenge that probably won’t be successful? Who cares. You know, the past several weeks I'm on board with Shurmur not being the right guy for us, but I keep saying that I'm glad he's making those challenges. If only to have the refs come out and deny an actual bad call happened. When they finally do reverse one - they are going to look ridiculous. Well, even moreso than now. The worst part is he's been right about every one of those calls being horseshit. And he's lost them. at least it had chatter about the one in NE.

Completely agree. Just because the system is rigged, you shouldn't give into it if you know you're in the right.

He just is not the type of person to command respect. Player's coaches can work, cerebral coaches can work. If you rely on the latter you have to give your team a schematic advantage on game day that translates into success. Without that, I think you inevitably lose the team, adult or not. Time is running out.

In comment 14638840 Thegratefulhead said:

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He just is not the type of person to command respect. Player's coaches can work, cerebral coaches can work. If you rely on the latter you have to give your team a schematic advantage on game day that translates into success. Without that, I think you inevitably lose the team, adult or not. Time is running out.

Good post just watch post game after a win he thinks he is talking to a pee wee team ... I would rather see him
bitch about a mistake and throw a chair then the preacher
approach ...