Eberflus gone!

[moniss]

20. Yes indeed and

the NFL started down a dangerous path with the "review and challenge" approach to things that are by nature dynamic. The push to expand the scope of included things in the "do-over" aspect of reviewing calls and then changing them moves the game towards an aspect of trying to hold players and officials to an "exact" sort of standard when bodies are flying around at high speed and what may look purposeful in slow motion may have been in real time just extraneous movement of a limb due to speed and effort to change direction for example.

The particular face mask call I mentioned was in the Bear/Packer game where at the end several plays prior to their field goal attempt they had a play where the TV people were showing the replay just for the purpose of showing how the play went. They never mentioned the face-mask call that should have been made. It was just something I caught when watching the game highlights. In the replay you see a Packer defensive lineman pushing into the rush from Williams left and you see a Bear offensive lineman with his hand up in the face-mask and pulling the head around trying to slow the rush. It looks like the hand starts at the face-mask and as the motion and effort of the Packer continues the hand goes to the inside edge of the helmet by the straps also.

So realistically if the Bears wanted to bellyache about a missed call on the blocked field goal at the end of that drive then the actuality is if the prior call had been made for the face-mask they may have been backed up even further and therefore not have been in field goal position at all. Many possibilities of outcome of course but them yapping about a missed call is pretty one-sided regarding that whole drive.