Exploring the Inconsistencies of NFL Replay Assist System

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00:00How about replay system expansion?

00:01Here's the interesting part, Mark.

00:02Throw a flag there, face mask, 15 yards,

00:05and an automatic first down.

00:06You get buzzed down.

00:08Oh no, there was no face make there, we take it away.

00:10We like that as professional sports watchers,

00:13handicappers, and bettors, but hear me out on this.

00:16The ones that get us more upset

00:18are the sack of a quarterback by the face mask

00:21where there was no flag called,

00:23and replay goes, yeah, that's a clear face mask,

00:25but we can't drop a flag onto the field.

00:28How about that, Mark?

00:30Yeah, again, the biggest issue for me

00:33with this more than anything,

00:35and I have not been able to figure this out

00:36in the two years since replay assist has been around,

00:39someone explained to me what the parameters are

00:42for replay assist being used and it not being used.

00:45How come there are certain plays

00:47where it was buzzed down and fixed immediately,

00:49and there were certain plays where there was no help?

00:51I have no idea when replay assist can be used,

00:54what needs to happen to trigger a replay assist,

00:57and that's the part that is arbitrary and unfair,

01:02and it confuses the viewer.

01:04I've seen it too many times last year

01:06where it's like, why can't they just buzz down and fix that?

01:09Nope, coach has gotta use a challenge.

01:11Why don't they buzz down and fix that?

01:12Nope, we're just gonna continue to play what it is

01:14and let the call on the field stand.

01:16I have no idea when replay assist happens.

01:19The NFL continues to refuse to look at this and go,

01:24we just want the call right every time.

01:27Whatever we need to do to get there,

01:28we just want the call right every time.

01:31It's not hard, it's not difficult,

01:33but the NFL has learned over the past,

01:37let's say 25 years, DRS,

01:39don't care if you don't like the officiating.

01:42We don't care if the officiating isn't any good,

01:45and we don't care if the officiating

01:47changes the outcome of a game, because guess what?

01:50You're all gonna watch the next week, and we know it,

01:53so we don't have to care.

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