It’s time. It was already time. It’s certainly time now.
Technology exists to do things well. The only question is whether the NFL will jump – and write the check.
The ball must be equipped with digital components which will allow an exact measure to know if a player has marked a touchdown or, with regard to the AFC championship on Sunday evening, if a first try has been obtained.
The current system is far too imperfect. And these imperfections showed this evening. Human beings using their eyes and their feet to see through and around the bodies in an effort to determine how far the runner worn the ball.
As CBS Gene Steratore analyst said, it looked like the quarterrière Josh Allen I have the ball at the line to win Before it was removed back in fourth and short at the beginning of the fourth quarter, the Bills leading 22-21.
It is difficult to make an appropriate place in real time, and it is even more difficult to determine with Replay Review if Allen did it.
The distinct problem, of course, is the lack of transparency in the process of rereading the NFL. Who makes the decisions? Who is in the room when the decisions are made? What angles do they look at?
In the end, there is no reason to rely on the fragiles of the human estimate. Too many trips on the outcome of these matches so that the league does not invest in precision.
They can do it. They need to do it. Although an imperfect call in such circumstances always hurts a team and helps the other, it is not a way to ensure coherent precision. Or to make sure that the team that won the match really won it and fully won.
Perhaps the chiefs would still have won if the drive drive continued. The fact is that the obstinate insistence of the League to rely on what those responsible think they have seen must give in to technology that can erase any doubt.
Everyone should want that. Until the NFL feels enough pressure from the teams, the media, the fans and perhaps even the congress to repair it, the League will not choose to do so.