reviewable plays

[That Guy]

This is a good point. Does anyone know why the NFL lets their refs make this side job? I mean I know they only have one game a week unlike NBA and MLB but still doesn't that make it MORE important that the refs are of good quality since each game means so much?

6 refs per game right? x 16 games (first two weeks, then 14 etc) = 96 refs + 10 subs (minimum) that the league would have to pay full time, year round, for four months of work... lotta money for 48 hours of on field work.

If you make more plays reviewable then why even have refs on the field? The reason some plays are reviewable and some aren't is because it's an imperfect game. The rules are subjective and open to interpretation, to review every potential game changing call means that you no longer need refs on the field to call the action. The refs have to make decisions and some of those decisions have to be binding, everything cannot be open for interpretation because if everything is then chaos results.

There are missed calls, its part of the game. It adds to the drama, but looking back on the game we still had a chance to win that game if we don't blow two timeouts early in the 2nd half. So the poor officiating, and it was definitely poor, didn't cost us the game. Poor clock management, wasted timeouts and dropped passes cost us the game. It's easy to use the officials as scapegoats, but it's part of the game and reviewing every play doesn't seem to make the game better to me.

maybe it adds to the drama to you, to me its total bull. and yes, those calls did lose us the game. if we did better on time management etc we could have won, but if one of those plays went the other way, we also would have won... changing the scoring by 60% is a lot to overcome, usually too much.

the refs aren't their to randomize the results of who wins, they're there to make CORRECT calls. I get no joy out of watch the "human element" completely destroy a game. the refs are their to get it right and keep the game flowing, usually they do it pretty well... the problem is when they don't, the only recourse is some toilet paper from the league a week too late to matter. I'd say getting the plays right more often means that the officiating would be far LESS chaotic... making something binding just for the hell of it is dumb. Changing that rule wouldn't make any more chaos than is already present in the current red flag challenge rules.