The effect of the new PI review

CouchCoach said:

Since this rule is new this year, it's too early to call how this will effect the game but I am wondering how this will effect the play calling, particularly the team that wants to be balanced.

It remains to be seen if this will be red flagged a lot more but on those deep balls, the risk v reward is pretty good if the offense gets the call.

The other part of that is what effect will this have on how the DB's play these plays, will this alter the style of play of aggressive DB's to the point the OC's start calling more deep balls?

The NFL loves the big play and I think they were ecstatic that the missed call in NO happened enabling them to do what they wanted to do anyway, open the game and scoring up even more. Think the ratings of that KC-LAR game didn't get a lot of mileage at the owners' meeting? The only holdup was the time to play the games and more stops but integrity comes first, by golly.

I look at this offense, especially with these WR's, and most can go deep but the question is can the OL give the QB time to complete those plays? I do think that Young Kellen will favor those plays because he liked them as a QB.

Good thing for us on offense or bad thing for us on defense?

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Super_Kazuya said:

What we saw in the NBA was that the officials have to stop making “judge jury executioner” calls and play it by the rule book. An NBA example is, two guys are going for the ball out of bounds. Guy A has five fouls and lightly fouls Guy B, causing the ball to go off Guy B (close play but Ref can clearly see it). Official sees it all, wants to keep the game moving... so instead of giving Guy A a ticky-tack foul and fouling him out he just says no foul, out of bounds on Guy A and the scales of justice are even.
Except now in the final two minutes they can go look at these and even though they can see that Guy A clearly committed a foul, they can only correct the out of bounds part.
I’m sure NFL refs manage the game in a similar fashion, they may see the receiver push off closer to the line and the DB does a slight grab at the end and decides that neither of them deserves a bail out. That’s going to look a lot worse now.

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nightrain said:

My guess is the rule won't see a second year on the books. Cure worse than the disease syndrom.

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Aerolithe_Lion said:

The nfccg was the only time I can remember where it was so bad that we needed a review.

So hopefully it’s a rule we never use because we’ll never have to. But we know that the second it’s implemented, people will be begging for it on every play. Fans, announcers, even the players on the field.

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CouchCoach said:

Since this rule is new this year, it's too early to call how this will effect the game but I am wondering how this will effect the play calling, particularly the team that wants to be balanced.

It remains to be seen if this will be red flagged a lot more but on those deep balls, the risk v reward is pretty good if the offense gets the call.

The other part of that is what effect will this have on how the DB's play these plays, will this alter the style of play of aggressive DB's to the point the OC's start calling more deep balls?

The NFL loves the big play and I think they were ecstatic that the missed call in NO happened enabling them to do what they wanted to do anyway, open the game and scoring up even more. Think the ratings of that KC-LAR game didn't get a lot of mileage at the owners' meeting? The only holdup was the time to play the games and more stops but integrity comes first, by golly.

I look at this offense, especially with these WR's, and most can go deep but the question is can the OL give the QB time to complete those plays? I do think that Young Kellen will favor those plays because he liked them as a QB.

Good thing for us on offense or bad thing for us on defense?

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CouchCoach said:

Since this rule is new this year, it's too early to call how this will effect the game but I am wondering how this will effect the play calling, particularly the team that wants to be balanced.

It remains to be seen if this will be red flagged a lot more but on those deep balls, the risk v reward is pretty good if the offense gets the call.

The other part of that is what effect will this have on how the DB's play these plays, will this alter the style of play of aggressive DB's to the point the OC's start calling more deep balls?

The NFL loves the big play and I think they were ecstatic that the missed call in NO happened enabling them to do what they wanted to do anyway, open the game and scoring up even more. Think the ratings of that KC-LAR game didn't get a lot of mileage at the owners' meeting? The only holdup was the time to play the games and more stops but integrity comes first, by golly.

I look at this offense, especially with these WR's, and most can go deep but the question is can the OL give the QB time to complete those plays? I do think that Young Kellen will favor those plays because he liked them as a QB.

Good thing for us on offense or bad thing for us on defense?

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Fire407 said:

The rules for pass interference should have never been changed. If the Rams/Saints play doesn't happen last season, then there would be no rule change. One really egregious missed call after 32 years of using instant replay and they feel they have to change the rules. That play was the exception that proves the rule that nothing should have been changed. The problem now is going to be the fan bases, and even myself, that will see a play in slow motion and if the defender is a fraction of a second early we'll be saying its just like the Rams play and should be overturned when in reality its nothing like the Rams play. Again we could go another 32 or 50 years and never see such an egregious missed call, but fans are going to want every tacky tack call made now to be corrected. The games will take longer and the fans will be even more pissed when the rulings don't go their way.

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