Yahoo Sports’ Jason Fitz, senior NFL reporter Charles Robinson, and senior NFL writer Frank Schwab discuss the missed facemask call on the Rams resulting in a game-ending safety for the Vikings and whether a play like that should be reviewable. Hear the full conversation on “Inside Coverage” – and subscribe on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, YouTube or wherever you listen.
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We need to talk about the, how do they, how do they, oh my God, horrible face masks.
Why is that not reviewable?
Why is that not reviewable?
I think I would argue that in the final two minutes of games calls like that should be reviewable.
But to me, screw whether or not it’s reviewable.
The official was right there.
Byron Young almost rips his head off right in front of him and then, and then grabs his helmet and grabs his helmet like, oh my God, I cooked.
I can’t believe I did it.
Charles.
I’ve talked about this and I wonder your thoughts.
I, I think that replay was going to be expanding to things like that, but we’re never gonna expand replay because of the year and everybody complaining about the passenger fares reviewable and it just, and that’s why we can’t get a review on an obvious face mask in the last two minutes.
But Frank to that point, how often do we sit here and say, man, every single game in the NFL comes down to three or four plays.
And so to me, the fact that we, we sort of try and book end it into the last two minutes and, you know, we try and create these moments of big plays.
Well, a, a key holding on a key touchdown makes a difference at any point on the game.
Like a missed face mask on a safety doesn’t matter if it’s in the first quarter at the last two minutes.
Like, let me push back on that though too.
If you, if you have a key penalty earlier in the game, you have more time to deal with it, you have more time to overcome it.
Right?
In, in theory, right?
You still, there’s still a lot of football to be played.
If you have something, go against you in the last two minutes, you’re screwed.
Do you believe that the league will even look at this stuff with these, the, these sorts of moments and change anything this off season?
We had a whole massive season left and I can tell you right now, the league always says, was that just a snapshot in time or was it really a real problem that persisted through the, the remainder of the season?
The league’s stance is always the same.
Yeah, there was a bad call.
We’re not changing everything for a bad call.
We’re not going to sit there and wrench on this for, for one bad call or three bad calls and what they’ll throw at you is here’s how many snaps there were this year?
They’re like, here’s the, you know, thousands and thousands and thousands of snaps and you’re talking to me about three or two, like, come on, man.