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Originally Posted by GirlySports
Yeah flow of the game is crap. We wait 4 years for a World Cup, what's another 5 minutes?
I think knee hitting the ground is pretty definitive.
But reviewing fouls are still very iffy. Did he stick his leg out, did he cause the player to fall. My the player tripped over the foot that was already there. What about offsides? If the flag goes up it's offside and everyone stops. You can't go back and continue the play as if it would have happened.
What about handball. Going to replay to determine a penalty of handball might be a disaster. Ball to hand, hand to ball, ball hits armpit etc....
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A knee hitting the ground is definitive on occasion, just as a defender making contact to bring a man down is definitive on occasion. On many other occasions a knee hitting the ground is far from definitive, it may have taken place in a pile, there may be issues of possession of the ball at the time the knee hit etc. There are a ton of potential scenarios where an NFL officials judgment is reviewed by video.
I still don't see what's iffy. How is it iffy for an official to get an opportunity to look at video of an incident before making his decision? How many times have we seen poor penalty decisions based on an official having a crap view of the tackle? A tackle may look like a clear foul from behind but swing around the other side and it's a clean play, all this does is allow the official to see what he would have seen from that position. I can't figure out how that is iffy.
As for handball, a potential disaster? C'mon, now you're just being dramatic. Video allows the official to determine where the ball was played, so the ball off the top of the shoulder calls are eliminated, that's about as definitive as it gets. As for ball to hand/hand to ball, I don't think anyone has ever indicated that video allows for intentions to be read, but it does offer more evidence. The official has the added benefit of seeing whether a hand was thrown out at the ball, or whether it was already there and struck by the ball.
Honestly, I've yet to hear a single solid argument against using video review. People have simply decided that it's no good without actually taking the time to think about it.