NFL house owners approve expanded replay help, amended OT format

It was identified effectively prematurely of this week’s league conferences that consideration can be given to broadening using replay help. To no shock, then, the league has dedicated to doing so. Expanded use of video replay to assist on-field officers was experimented with in 2024, and that may proceed subsequent yr, as detailed by NFL Community’s Tom Pelissero.

Consequently, penalties issued for calls corresponding to roughing the passer, intentional grounding and pointless roughness are actually topic to evaluation (with no coach’s problem being wanted). Video officers can appropriate calls by nullifying penalties when clear proof overturning the unique determination exists. With that stated, Tuesday’s adjustments don’t enable for penalties to be issued upon evaluation for performs the place no flag is thrown.

The NFL just lately amended playoff additional time guidelines to make sure that each groups obtain the ball at the very least as soon as within the further body. That change introduced concerning the expectation that it will quickly be duplicated within the common season. 

Certainly, Dianna Russini of The Athletic notes each groups can have possession even within the occasion of a landing being scored by one among them in regular-season contests.

Regardless of that tweak, OT in the course of the common season will nonetheless encompass a 10- (slightly than 15-) minute quarter. That might end in time constraints for the second workforce to obtain the ball, relying on how lengthy the primary workforce’s landing drive lasts. Nonetheless, the results of the coin toss at first of the additional body will carry much less weight within the wake of Tuesday’s change.

These two adjustments come on the identical day that the NFL’s dynamic kickoff was authorised on a full-time foundation (with touchbacks being moved up 5 yards to encourage additional upticks within the charge of returns). Consideration to amending onside kicks will happen later this offseason; the identical can be true of the tush push play.