NFL adopts rule change after Saints NFC 'No-call'
 

The type of game-changing non-call that cost the Saints a likely chance at the Super Bowl will now be reviewable in NFL games.

NFL owners have approved all offensive and defensive pass interference calls, as well as non-calls, to now be challenged, according to multiple reports.

Previously, interference calls, flagged or 'un-flagged' could not be challenged.

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Owners voted for the change on Tuesday night at the NFL owner's meeting in Phoenix, Arizona after a presentation by Saints head coach Sean Payton earlier in the day.


The vote was one of three on pass interference proposals voted on by league owners.

Besides new challenging rules, Payton's proposal, named "Proposal 6B," allows replay assistants to review non-called defensive pass interference -- like what the Saints experienced in their NFC Championship loss against the Los Angeles Rams.

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Sean Payton on expanding replay: I think we got it right

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Meh, will it put us in the SB last year instead the Lambs? No? OK, then what did will it really do? Make the NFL screw us in a different way next time.

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I’ll repost this...

And will it be called the “Saints Rule"? Hope so, because that way it will forever remind NFL fans everywhere that we were screwed in 2019.

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Hope everyone is happy now and we can move the hell on.

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Well, it ain't the super bowl, but it's a pretty big win..I'll take it. Thank you NFL for finally getting something right.

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Are the refs that got it wrong fired?

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This was clearly something that had to be done to improve the integrity of play.

It was so important in fact that it happened in ONE offseason. And all owners voted for it.

Your comment comes across a bit like everyone is whining about the outcome. We're not. We're just not standing put while the league continues to be okay with shoddy rules and officiating.

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Nope. Never moving on and never forgetting.

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Honestly, the proliferation of pass interference penalties over the last decade or so pretty much ruined football for me. I’m just happy that now teams can do something about it.

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Ditto, Guido.

Haven't moved on or forgot about Bountygate either!
And won't until Gotohell is removed as commissioner.

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When something valuable is stolen from me, I never forget. It becomes a learning experience.

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I would like to see PO games called the same as RS games. Grabbing the best rated refs for the playoffs is wrong IMO. It should be random just like the RS. Keep the consistency. What it tells me is some of their refs are not that good and should really not be calling games at all or, they want they game called different in the PO's. From a young age I noticed PO games are called much different than RS. It's the wrong approach.

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YAY!!! Oh wait.....we lost the game. Nothing else matters! :bang:

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Well at least that's happened, which in turn acknowledges that it was in fact a major screwup. Still, as JeannePierre rightly pointed out elsewhere, they really need to make a rule that referees in playoff games can't have connections to the teams or cities involved. It's insane to think that an ex-Rams player should be calling a Rams playoff game. It just shouldn't happen, if only for the appearance of propriety and fairness.

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Prepare for 3 holding calls instead....

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I have mixed feelings about this. Yes, I think something needed to be done, but they kind of opened the floodgates and they really didn't need to. There will be some unintended consequences that are going to be eye-sores. Remember, all scoring plays are reviewed. Just wait until a TD gets reversed due to a borderline push-off by the WR or TE and those points come off the board at a pivotal point. Things could get ugly, folks.

Where they REALLY NEEDED to start was make ALL PERSONAL SAFETY issues (personal foul type calls) reviewable. That would have taken care of our issue with the obvious helmet to helmet on TLL. The Dallas helmet to helmet on Kamara. And the BS roughing the passer calls, they could be reviewed and the flag picked up (thinking the Clay Matthews calls and the Brady shoulder pad brush in the AFC Championship game, among countless others). IMO it's the personal foul phantom calls and missed calls which is the greatest sore spot in NFL officiating. I like the way the NBA stops play and proactively reviews replay before following through with a flagrant foul call.

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NFL Operations points out Saints also benefited from a big interference call

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I've had some time to think about this lately and wanted to share my thoughts.

This feels like a knee jerk reaction blaming that loss solely on the non-call and I don't really agree with that. We remember when the Vikings wanted the rules of OT changed after we beat them in the 2009 NFCCG. That too was a knee jerk reaction and I hate to make that comparison. I don't think we lost solely on one missed call, but that's beyond the point. We can discuss that game another time and what went wrong.

Last year we led the league in defensive pass interference penalties with 20 total. This rule change will lead to coaches challenges pass interference and non-calls of it. It could easily come back to haunt us, which is my main concern here. Given our issues with defensive pass interference, I jokingly commented last year on another forum that one of my biggest fears was Eli Apple or someone drawing a ridiculous pass interference penalty. I wasn't surprised to learn that we led the league in this last year.

DBs have never been more important than now with rule changes like that. I think about pick plays and how pass interference could be challenged now on those kinds of plays. If you watched Kansas City much last year, I believe they were the one team that ran pick plays more than anyone else. There were multiple cases of them in the AFCCG. WRs are being trained now to watch for this and make space for such a play.

The one good thing though is that coaches still only have 3 challenges so you have to really think about challenging it now.

Not really sure how I feel about this rule change. I have a bad feeling it can lead to some serious consequences.

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I'll be the first and probably the only one to admit that we benefited from serious calls in that Steelers game.

Early in the game, there was that tick-tacky pass interference penalty in the end zone on a big play that put us 1st and goal ready to punch it in. That call could've been reversed by challenge of the new rule. I thought it was tick tacky but I didn't complain cause we rarely ever get the benefit of bad calls aiding us.

Our offense just went flat in the second half after we were up 24-14. We were kicking the crap out of them in the first half. I was thinking to myself 'YES! Finally! The offense has woken up and they are about to throttle this team!'

Then the second half commenced and it was just like every game since after Thanksgiving - offense unable to do anything and the defense trying their absolute best to bail them out.

Give credit to the defense cause they literally were trying to move heaven and earth to make us win that game while the offense piddled around the entire second half. The defense managed to get multiple stops, including a huge 4th down stop AND a turnover. (and would later seal the game with another turnover.) meanwhile the offense continued to piddle around unable to re-take the lead, or earlier when they could've put the game out of reach by scoring another TD or two.

That pass interference penalty helped us get that last TD and win the game.

This is what I was talking about in previous posts on here that something went really wrong for our offense beginning with the Dallas game and we never recovered. Dallas seemed to expose us and then every team followed suit with the same defensive game plan. That Pittsburgh game was our final highest scoring game for the year, and yet we barely got to 30 points that day. They had our offense completely shut down in the second half.... something the Rams did in the NFCCG as we went on to do nothing after going up 20-10.

I don't know what went wrong for us after November, but something did. Brees went from an MVP candidate to looking like Peyton Manning at the end of 2014 where Manning had slipped off a cliff and Denver went from having a high scoring offense to relying on their defense to bail them out of games at the end of the year.

IMO my own theory is that we didn't have enough weapons on offense to scare teams with. Dallas showed the world that if you could figure a way to limit Kamara and Michael Thomas, then there was no one left to be afraid of. I am hoping like hell we have a better receiver corps next year to remedy this problem.