Referee's nonexplanation of challenge results.

A third challenge can be awarded to a team only if they are successful in both of their previous challenges.

 

If you make two challenges and both are correct, they give you a third.

 

The problem is that the ref should not have allowed the Jets to challenge the play. You can't challenge possession or down by contact.

 

That is another aspect of it that was briefly mentioned on the broadcast - there are plenty of times when a referee tells a coach that they can't challenge something, and the game moves on. If Rex said he was challenging the ruling on possession, and that can't be challenged, then the referee should say so. The bad call stays, but at least the Jets don't waste a challenge.

 

Scary, I started thinking the same thing yesterday. The replay rule was to prevent Vinny from scoring from two yards out, it is now being used to correct very nit picky stuff and doing so badly.

 

Why would the ref need to explain when we had the Fox Challenge Analyst Homo attempt to explain it for us?

 

The calls in a Pats game have nothing to do with the calls in a Jets game. I was actually responding to a post that someone made before I did about the Green-Ellis TD in the game yesterday.

Regardless of any team, the officiating hasn't been good this year. I've watched too many games where the officials just can't get the job done right.

 

THEY COULD NOT overturn it. Once its called an interception they cant change it.

The refs fucked up.

 

Yea, and the jets got screwed because of it. This isn't the first time the refs have screwed up and its getting quite sickening to see bad calls week in and week out. I feel that almost every week this season there is at least one controversial call.

 

All challenges need to be reviewed by an NFL official located offsite (league headquarters in NYC?)where an unbiased mind can review the play. Week in and out it seems officials have different interpretations of plays that are very similar if not exactly the same.

 

I would like to know the reasoning why you can't change the original call if you see it as a 'catch down by contact' in the replay booth as opposed to an interception? Both an interception and a reception are catches by definition so including them re-viewable together in any situation involving a 'catch' would clear up the grey area he was talking about that prevented the ref from overturning the call.

 

Yeah, that's right. They should have handed back the flag and announced it was not reviewable. That's 1. Two is, if the ref is not 100% absolutely sure (which he obviously could not have been since the call was wrong) about the play, he should NEVER make the call that FORCES A TURNOVER! I mean, come on! It's not an incomplete pass we're talking about. That ref single-handedly killed a Jets drive and started a promising one for GB because he guessed on a play.

He must repent and be punished.

 

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I find it hilarious that there is criticism of coaches for using challenges early. The officials are supposed to get it correct. There should be no need for any red flags. Get the damn call right the first time.

 

It's not replay that needs to go, it's the human element as it pertains to replay. Once a play is put up for challenge, a referee's judgment of the call should go out the window due to actual video evidence that can contradict what the referee judged to be reality. If you're going to say it's a judgment call, the jerk never should have gone under the hood. And the on-field refs should never be making the call on the replay.

I haven't been in favor of torching the refs much this season, but this game was a travesty. The Pack played well and the Jets didn't help themselves at all, but it's hard to ignore how much the calls went in favor of the Packers yesterday.

 

I think we just need more officials. 2 more on the field will help make sure that the play is seen from multiple angles but then again their will probably be a lot more flags. Yea more officials is a bad idea.

 

I agree with this.

 

Billick absolutely went off on the replay system a few years ago when Todd Heap was robbed of a TD.

 

This has to do with some rule changes and more angles being available.

...the refs are also off too though, but those 2 factors weigh in.