re: Three Immediate Improvements to the CFB Game

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He was bobbling the ball and didn’t completely posses it until he was out of bounds. The replay corrected that call.

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Fertilizer.

Go? look at the replay linked above. Anderson had full control of the ball, a foot down inbounds and the ball didn't come loose until his other arm hit the turf at which point he is down and the play is over.

I am not questioning if the refs called it right according to the rulebook as written. But, that the rule as-written needs to be changed.

Targeting isn't going anywhere btw.

If you want football, that is. Its reduced severe cerbro-spinal injuries by more than 80% at every level its been adopted at-- and that's what's making the continuation of the game even possible.

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You can blame the NFL for this. They created the whole “catch must survive the ground“ rule. I don’t really like it either, but that’s the rule now courtesy of NFL.

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Let’s define “surviving the ground”

Possession of the ball and it not hitting the ground should be a catch every time… a slight bobble should be irrelevant if the ball never leaves you

A few things that need to happen post haste.

1. Having the replay official in the booth. The whole official running to sideline is legitimately retarded. And if you have to do it, PUT A 80 inch 4k big screen in his face. (No let’s make him look at a 13 inch tiny screen!) retarded.

2. Turn the officials mikes on during the replay review so everyone watching on tv can hear what they are reviewing. It would speed them up twice speed at least.

3. They need to stop throwing players out for targeting. We’ve gotten it under control to a large extent. It can still be a personal foul and two personals and you are out this game and next. I would like them to go back to separating out spearing with the top of your helmet as separate from targeting. That can stay an ejection for spearing. Idiots spearing can paralyze themselves.

I don’t have a problem with the catch rules. They at least apply them correctly




As an aside. How far have we come from DWhites targeting v Bama to last night with Weeks no targeting?

At least we are moving in a good direction

15 minutes isn’t enough time for commercials.

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I cannot fully agree with this. If ref believes he saw it, he should call it. The change should be the game shall continue though. Player has to come out while an Official Replay Review Ref does the review upstairs, if player is cleared he comes back in next play. May suck to lose a player for a play if they did not do anything wrong, but but it's only 1 play and that should also incentivize players to try even more to avoid hitting that area. Bottom line though is it does not hold up gameplay.

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What happens to the 15 yards if targeting is overturned? Go back and start again from the previous spot/time, or just give one team 15 yards even though there was no penalty?