Let's do away with instant replay

[Thurmal]

It slows down the game, and the refs, after review, only get it right half the time.

Johnson catches the ball, makes two steps on the field, dives into the endzone, ball crosses the plane, and the ground knocks it out: incomplete. Dickerson has the ball controlled for 0.5 seconds: fumble. Tannehill throws a backward pass: defender hit him while he was trying to throw forward, even though the ball goes backwards: forward pass. Fitzpatrick has the same thing happen, only his pass goes forward: fumble.

Most over-officiated game in sports.

[Skooby]

Re: Let's do away with instant replay

Bills < Interpreted rules.

[The Jokeman]

Re: Let's do away with instant replay

It slows down the game, and the refs, after review, only get it right half the time.

Johnson catches the ball, makes two steps on the field, dives into the endzone, ball crosses the plane, and the ground knocks it out: incomplete. Dickerson has the ball controlled for 0.5 seconds: fumble. Tannehill throws a backward pass: defender hit him while he was trying to throw forward, even though the ball goes backwards: forward pass. Fitzpatrick has the same thing happen, only his pass goes forward: fumble.

Most over-officiated game in sports.

The refs make it over officiated as it seems to me that they would rather get the call wrong on the field and let the replay make the correct call. In other words call it a TD or a turnover and let the replay show it wasn't or in layman's is covering their butts if they fail to see something.

[ServoBillieves]

Re: Let's do away with instant replay

People will complain either way. Half will say it ruins the integrity of the game (as in the refs shouldn't be lazy and awful), the others will say it's necessary because the refs will at times get calls wrong on the field (again, because the refs are awful and lazy).

This coming after watching a lot non-Bills football all year.

[Mike]

Re: Let's do away with instant replay

People will complain either way. Half will say it ruins the integrity of the game (as in the refs shouldn't be lazy and awful), the others will say it's necessary because the refs will at times get calls wrong on the field (again, because the refs are awful and lazy).

This coming after watching a lot non-Bills football all year.

It doesn't have anything to do with being lazy and awful but of human error and angles. Its physically imposible for refs to see in real time nearly as well as slow motion or to get certain very close calls right. For instance a RB fumbles the ball as he is being takled, slow motion and instant reply can zoom in and slow/stop the play so it becomes clear what happened.

Have you ever seen a play where it looks one way from one angle and completely different way from another angle. The cameras provide angles and perpectives which can fill in more of what happened. From one angle the guy leg is on the ground but you can not decipher where the ball is and from another angle you see where the ball is but not his leg. By putting this info together you will be able to tell weather it was a fumble or not however each individual perpective isn't sufficient.

All this being said, rules are left for interpretation and human error is always a part of the game. In any big call, some fans are going to be disappointed and disagree with the call as it hurts their team and as a result of their biases complain about the refs. As far as integrity, the game is about money and putting an entertaining product on the field, its not about integrity. A controversial/unpopular call may in some cases have a net positive effect for the game from marketing, financial, entertaining point of view.

[kishoph]

Re: Let's do away with instant replay

It slows down the game, and the refs, after review, only get it right half the time.

Johnson catches the ball, makes two steps on the field, dives into the endzone, ball crosses the plane, and the ground knocks it out: incomplete. Dickerson has the ball controlled for 0.5 seconds: fumble. Tannehill throws a backward pass: defender hit him while he was trying to throw forward, even though the ball goes backwards: forward pass. Fitzpatrick has the same thing happen, only his pass goes forward: fumble.

Most over-officiated game in sports.

I agree, I think they were bad calls, but as ridiculous as some of them were, they were judgement calls, the worst one was the Reggie Bush TD, were he clearly stepped out of bounds, how could they not reverse that call is beyond me. Another thing is, on a couple of those, calls were made "the right way" on the field, only to be changed by the Referee. As for the instant replay, I think the man upstairs (not God) should make the final call, not the ref, who may be emotionally involved in the game.

[justasportsfan]

Re: Let's do away with instant replay

we should have kept the replacement refs. They're just as bad but at least they didn't have their lips stuck in the Pats' butt.