NFL to use electronics to measure first downs

[MarcusRock]

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.

'Spiracy notwithstanding, didn't the NFL test this out during preseason before real games even started? If so, they were already thinking about it before any "controversy."

 

[Corso]

YeOr 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.

Yeah.
I can see the NFL going straight basic when the problem lies in the bed of many complications.

 

[JustChip]

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

I don’t this is relationship to where the ball is, but the line to gain. Eliminates the need for an index card like was used in the Cowboys-Raiders game years back.

 

[Cowboysheelsreds053]

Welcome to the Jetson’s football, a cartoon before its time.

 

[ChuckA1]

They can take a closeup photo of the surface of the moon, but the NFL can't electronically measure first downs? Really dumb