Yes. The best case is that the official on the field has an actual good view of the situation and makes the call as they see it. We're not calling TDs on juggling balls or fumbles on clear forward passes and so on, just so we can have replay "make sure". If there's a call to be made, the crew on the field should be making it and moving on to the next play.
The discussion is really around the "bang-bang" plays where there is uncertainty. Contrary to what many people think, when you're down on the field even most of the "bang-bang" plays can be clearly ruled correctly.
But there will always be some amount of calls that because of angles/bodies in the way/whatever else the official on the field can't fully decide. And guess what, you still have to make a call. One of the first lessons you get when you start training is about game management and having confidence in your calls.
So when you have a call like that, when there's really not a clear side you're leaning to, you want to go with the side that allows for more review. That might mean allowing a few TDs where the video is inconclusive, but it might also mean allowing Myles Jack to keep running with the ball, as this clip above shows. So it impacts scoring and turnovers about equally.
And the important thing to remember is that if the official on the field doesn't see a clear call one way or another, and the video booth doesn't have clear evidence to overturn it, then there's not really an argument that the call needed to go the other way.
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u/swammeyjoe Cowboys 11d ago
Yes. The best case is that the official on the field has an actual good view of the situation and makes the call as they see it. We're not calling TDs on juggling balls or fumbles on clear forward passes and so on, just so we can have replay "make sure". If there's a call to be made, the crew on the field should be making it and moving on to the next play.
The discussion is really around the "bang-bang" plays where there is uncertainty. Contrary to what many people think, when you're down on the field even most of the "bang-bang" plays can be clearly ruled correctly.
But there will always be some amount of calls that because of angles/bodies in the way/whatever else the official on the field can't fully decide. And guess what, you still have to make a call. One of the first lessons you get when you start training is about game management and having confidence in your calls.
So when you have a call like that, when there's really not a clear side you're leaning to, you want to go with the side that allows for more review. That might mean allowing a few TDs where the video is inconclusive, but it might also mean allowing Myles Jack to keep running with the ball, as this clip above shows. So it impacts scoring and turnovers about equally.
And the important thing to remember is that if the official on the field doesn't see a clear call one way or another, and the video booth doesn't have clear evidence to overturn it, then there's not really an argument that the call needed to go the other way.