NFL to use electronics to measure first downs

[thunderpimp91]

After the Buffalo/Kansas City ACFCG, the league had to finally make this official.

When the CBS and Fox rules analysis guys both said Josh Allen got the 1st down, the league was under to much scrutiny to just sit by and do nothing.

I could be reading this wrong but would that really change anything? It sounds like this is just for the actual measurement and not the spotting of the football which was the issue in the buf/kc game.

 

[InPhiltraitor]

I could be reading this wrong but would that really change anything? It sounds like this is just for the actual measurement and not the spotting of the football which was the issue in the buf/kc game.

Yep. One official seemed to be a foot and a half ahead of the other and the one further ahead started angling toward the other guy.

 

[Redsfan_83]

Need motion detector technology next for false starts.

no, they need those invisible fences people buy for their dogs to keep them on their property

 

[cowboyec]

tex schramm wanted to do this at the goal-line to determine if the ball broke the plane or not.

i like the idea for 1st downs but they should use it for touchdowns also.
thats probably next.

 

[gtb1943]

If they chip the ball it will definitely be used to see if it broke the plain of the goal. Which to me is every big as critical.

 

[mrmojo]

Gonna miss the Gene Steratore electronics.......... hey the index card worked

 

[Miller]

About Time! I mean the EPL in soccer uses all kinds of electronics to just look at offsides by a millimeter. Get in line with chips, lasers, whatever

 

[Coogiguy03]

He can get in line.

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[Mr_437]

Shotty better get the Boys ready to get 11 yards for 1st down, I don't trust the refs when it comes to the Cowboys.

 

[Flamma]

Make this make sense. The ball gets kicked through the endzone and brought out to the 25. Three plays later the ball is just short of the 35. You can see about a half an inch of green between the tip of the ball and the white line. They actually brought out the chains.

 

[nobody]

How about an independent official investigator so players have someone impartial to report multiple violations to? Like the fact that certain players are held ALL THE TIME and the officials somehow always miss it?

 

[Praxit]

...gonna be more like where they SPOT the ball. Some refs have problems with that. ..lol..

 

[ChuckA1]

Day late, dollar short. Sometimes you just have to use a cliché

 

[ShortRound]

2025 and they’re just doing this now

 

[SultanOfSix]

I want to see someone hack this and put the ball’s position on the moon.

 

[acr731]

He can get in line.

Are these your thoughts?

 

[sunalsorises]

Put a chip in the ball ........ you will always know where it is at.

The chip won't tell you when the runner is down, though.

 

[Corso]

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[Corso]

The chip won't tell you when the runner is down, though.

This looks like a tough nut to crack except for forward progress which then goes down to knees and judgement.

 

[MarcusRock]

This looks like a tough nut to crack except for forward progress which then goes down to knees and judgement.

Or judgement and knees. Some runners don't ever go down and the whistle is what ends the play. So whistles would need to be synced to the chips in the ball somehow to tell you the furthest point the ball got forward before then. Or they could run a timed video and consult it via replay to find that point and feed it into a computer to find the spot then. This is all before you get to loss of possession, etc.