HawkGA":2nz3plmp said:
Penalties involve way too much judgement call. You can nitpick darn near any play to see a penalty somewhere, but the refs don't always feel like calling it. That would become an absolute cluster fark with review.
The issue with yesterday's non-PI call wasn't an issue of needing review. It was a bad, horrible non-call by a ref who totally screwed up. Job accountability is what is needed there, not replay. I mean, it was just too obvious of a miss to think "oh if we only had replay". Replay is good for determining possession, distance, crossing the plane of the end zone, stuff like that.
So the answer is fire every ref that makes a bad call? I can see that working well.
Their isn't an indefinite talent pool of decent refs. There can be no accountability if there is no real threat of discipline due to a lack of adequate replacements. Its why so many star athletes behave so boorishly at times. You know that no one will fire them unless they hit a woman or commit a felony.
What needs to happen is that the NFL needs to re-think officiating from the ground up using the best of technology. Its a multi billion dollar industry. You'd think they could use NASA level tech if they wanted to. Spend the damn money. Have multiple video cameras and video officials off site reviewing plays in real time and signalling infractions down to the head officials on the field.
It took no time at all for everyone in the world to know that DPI was a penalty. There has to be a way for video refs to get a signal to the on field guys that they missed an obvious one.