[News] Eisenberg: Ravens' Expanded Replay Proposal Will Eventually Be Approved

[BR News]

It’s time to admit that the argument about games being delayed too long by expanded replay is outdated. The game’s credibility takes priority.

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[dmw]

In-game delays are a concern, especially for the fans at the stadium. I know first hand from a Ravens-Jets game on a rainy, cold night. If the owners want to change the replay system to increase the number of reviews, they should also decrease the time taken for each review. The college replay system, which uses a booth replay, works very well and is much quicker than the NFL system. There is no compelling reason to delay the game while an official on the field travels to an on-field monitor. Of course, then the owners might have to pay an extra official for each game.

[RavensFanMania]

13 minutes ago, Bruce_Almty said:

What they also need to do is eliminate some of the nuisance calls that totally disrupt fan enjoyment and flow of the game...such as OL false starts.

lol

[The Mom Gene]

And yet teams like the Patriots get concessions for their crap all the time. Like it's no big deal. I'm waiting for the day when a game changer actually goes against one of them... OH WAIT! They won't let something like that happen. I do have to admit it was hysterical watching Belicheat run across our field that night that Tuck kicked that FG... And subsequently Bellicheat gets the goal posts raised 5 feet??? I'm just sayin folks.

[ALSKAN RAVEN FAN]

It does seem like certain teams get their way. I hope this passes. I would like to personally see Officials watching the game from above and being able to call a penalty from the press boxes or somewhere up high in the stadium or just by watching the big screen so they can call penalties by seeing the same images we see at our homes. Something like that maybe more fine tuned.

[Moderator 3]

Follow baseball much?  They're constantly changing the rules and now players can barely slide into 2nd base.

[Ugly Ball]

And yet teams like the Patriots get concessions for their crap all the time. Like it's no big deal. I'm waiting for the day when a game changer actually goes against one of them... OH WAIT! They won't let something like that happen. I do have to admit it was hysterical watching Belicheat run across our field that night that Tuck kicked that FG... And subsequently Bellicheat gets the goal posts raised 5 feet??? I'm just sayin folks.

Not only that, Belicheat grabs the official by the arm to get an explanation from him, which garnered no fine or even a warning from NFL.

[The Mom Gene]

EXACTLY!

[RavensBaltimore]

Why not just have an official in a booth or studio somewhere that's in charge of replay reviews? That seems more efficient and could shorten the delays. Also, if there are excessive replay delays, they could cut out some commercial breaks between change of possession, so it would even out.

[Ravenous_Ravens]

Why not just have an official in a booth or studio somewhere that's in charge of replay reviews? That seems more efficient and could shorten the delays. Also, if there are excessive replay delays, they could cut out some commercial breaks between change of possession, so it would even out.

Well I will be the first and not the last to tell you the NFL will not do away with commercial time. It's too valuable to their product.

Point is if you get your challenges every game, what does it matter what plays you can challenge. Each challenge is going to take a break out of the game no matter the play.

I agree there is need for a small handful of plays that should not be reviewable such as rules for allowing an official to keep control on the field. It would be counter productive to potentially overrule an officials call to keep order.

[RavensBaltimore]

  4 hours ago, RavensBaltimore said:

Why not just have an official in a booth or studio somewhere that's in charge of replay reviews? That seems more efficient and could shorten the delays. Also, if there are excessive replay delays, they could cut out some commercial breaks between change of possession, so it would even out.

Well I will be the first and not the last to tell you the NFL will not do away with commercial time. It's too valuable to their product.

Point is if you get your challenges every game, what does it matter what plays you can challenge. Each challenge is going to take a break out of the game no matter the play.

I agree there is need for a small handful of plays that should not be reviewable such as rules for allowing an official to keep control on the field. It would be counter productive to potentially overrule an officials call to keep order.

I'm not suggesting that the NFL do away with any commercial time. I'm just saying that they usually go to commercial during reviews, so if there were an excessive amount, you could just replace change of possession commercial breaks with replay commercial breaks, so they would still get just as much ad revenue, and you wouldn't be adding any extra time to the game.

[Guest]

Great Idea, insane it's even being debated.

[Ugly Ball]

Why not just have an official in a booth or studio somewhere that's in charge of replay reviews? That seems more efficient and could shorten the delays. Also, if there are excessive replay delays, they could cut out some commercial breaks between change of possession, so it would even out.

This is probably the best idea. When we at home are seeing what happens, in super slow motion and can see exactly what the call should be why can't they have another official doing the same thing ?
While on the subject of other officials, I think with the ridiculous amount rule changes, it's time for the NFL to come up off some of their billions a year profits and hire some full time Referees! It's as stupid that they treat this aspect of the game like it's not a very big matter as it is that they have all this great technology, that's basically being wasted.
You would think they like the fact that officials are able to change the outcomes of games and basically no one can even complain about it.
If the game doesn't start getting a little more balanced in the eyes of the fans, they will find something else to watch!

[KidNme]

Why not just have an official in a booth or studio somewhere that's in charge of replay reviews? That seems more efficient and could shorten the delays. Also, if there are excessive replay delays, they could cut out some commercial breaks between change of possession, so it would even out.

Cutting commercial breaks is not going to happen! As a matter of fact, it probably will introduce even more commercials. TV is so saturated by them now that it's hard to remember what you were watching by the time they come back from break so most shows will show you the last 2 minutes of what you were watching when they come back, to remind you. Everything is about the almighty dollar.

[whobilly]

If the NHL can figure this out I'm confident the NFL will come up with a better mouse trap. Do we really need the 'Under The Hood" version we have today? Have a Command Central just like the NHL does. The delays would be half the time. And while we are at it could we please convert to the college pass interference rule. 15 yard penalty. These 40 and 50 yards gains for PI are ridiculous.

[MYTH420]

What's wrong with you Eisenberg? The Ravens proposal will cause more delays and stoppages. How is that? Teams will have the same amount of challenges, so the delays will basically be the same. If you increase the number of challenges, then you will cause more delays, but that's not what they proposed. I think it's a great idea and you can't really find any fault in it, especially not a time issue. The refs might not like it, it's more opportunities for them to be proved wrong, but nobody remembers the ref who made the wrong call after its overturned, they remember the ref who made the wrong call that stands.

[rockhill24]

To solve stupid mistakes by refs is simple, beat the other team so the refs do not matter. John Harbaugh knows this just his father & brother. Forget the cry baby crap of pointing out refs faults for being so inept.

[whobilly]

To solve stupid mistakes by refs is simple, beat the other team so the refs do not matter. John Harbaugh knows this just his father & brother. Forget the cry baby crap of pointing out refs faults for being so inept.

I wish it was that simple. So your answer is to just beat every team and that will make the officials less inept. Genius solution.

[RavensBaltimore]

  On May 14, 2016 at 0:59 PM, RavensBaltimore said:

Why not just have an official in a booth or studio somewhere that's in charge of replay reviews? That seems more efficient and could shorten the delays. Also, if there are excessive replay delays, they could cut out some commercial breaks between change of possession, so it would even out.

Cutting commercial breaks is not going to happen! As a matter of fact, it probably will introduce even more commercials. TV is so saturated by them now that it's hard to remember what you were watching by the time they come back from break so most shows will show you the last 2 minutes of what you were watching when they come back, to remind you. Everything is about the almighty dollar.

They wouldn't really be cutting commercial breaks. They'd just be replacing change of possession commercial breaks with replay commercial breaks, so the amount of commercials they get in would be the same, as would the time of the game.

[Ugly Ball]

To solve stupid mistakes by refs is simple, beat the other team so the refs do not matter. John Harbaugh knows this just his father & brother. Forget the cry baby crap of pointing out refs faults for being so inept.

Say you are driving the ball down the field, about to score a touchdown and an official calls a phantom penalty on one of your receivers for tripping a defensive back.

Or say he doesn't recognize a lineman reporting in as an eligible receiver and calls him ineligible, after he makes a catch for the first down, on a drive that has scoring potential momentum.

Either penalty halts the drive, killing any chance of scoring a touchdown.

Again, explain to me how all we have to do is outscore the Referees !

The only reason Harbaugh is complaining to the Refs, is they are usually screwing us out of game winning chances to score !