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Three days later, and we are still talking about the fourth drop at the start of the fourth quarter of the AFC championship match between the Buffalo bills And Chiefs of Kansas City Or Josh Allen was considered not having reached the line to win on its quarter-Arrière Sneak.
First of all, some reflections on the room:
* Although important, the call was not decisive the game. If the first, Buffalo had had a first try at Kansas City 40, up 22-21, with 14 minutes to do. Let’s say that the Bills give a goal on the ground for an advance of 25-21 with 11 minutes to do. On the basis of how the real game took place, Kansas City making most key games, which can say that the chefs would not have prevailed?
* He should never have been fourth and one. Dalton KincaidAt the third bottom, a dove without its knee at least touching the band. The official Buffalo key line team – Line judge Jeff Seemman – has reproduced it about one foot.
* The line to be won would have been “the band”. After a touchdown, the front end of the ball is placed against the start of the band. But these channels were settled after a room, a fourth drop in Josh Allen Leap. And, it seems that the tip was at the end of the four -inch wide (and in this case, four inches are important).
* In the fourth bottom, Seeman, on the side of Buffalo, seemed to walk for a place near the end of the band. The head of the Kansas City’s touch line – Judge Patrick Holt – to whom Allen’s back was turned, seemed to be rejected and the place derived to the right of Holt, unless the line.
* Even with the end point, never clearly shown by CBS, but you can see it on the reruns, the ball seemed to be on the CBS line to win that rided the court band. Unless this occurs during the break, civil servants have never measured it with the old -fashioned issues. An explanation of Footballzebras.com: “The line to be won was a major line (40 from Kansas City). The ball was to enter the 40 plane for a first try. It is not necessary to measure when a strip is involved). As we said, the issues were not resolved after a touchdown, there should have been a measure to establish the exact location of the courtyard. “
* To avoid groping, Allen slipped the ball against his body, refusing the managers a clear view. But the top of his body against which the ball was hit finally broke the line. It should be believed that Allen had the ball behind his chest to find the room finally chosen.
* The NFL has not yet offered any explanation of the process which has not reversed the place in the field.
There are those who wonder why the NFL does not use “science” to determine the location of the ball. Mike Florio de ProfootballTalk.com is among the noisiest.
“It’s time. It was already time. It is 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 test has been obtained. “”
However, there are problems with a digital chip, especially when 99% of the time, the exact location of the ball is not really involved. But when it is in question, as with Allen’s Sneak, we need it to be precise.
We therefore fight with the idea of a chip, presumably in the middle of the ball and the court to gain in front of a football of five to six inches forward. Can they calibrate it so that if the chip arrives less than five inches from the first electronic line, it registers as a first descent? But on the other hand, in some cases, such as the big game on Sunday, the ball could never become flat in the hand of the bunge carrier.
Two chips, one at each end? Is it possible?
We note that the LCF had a chip on some of its football balls – and removed it when the kickers complained about their kicks.
What must also be taken into account is the combination of location and time. A place is not supposed to be the most distant point than a ball carrier pushes football. It is the location of the ball at the moment when the player’s knee (or another part of the body like a elbow) strikes the ground. And, as the analyst of Fox Sports rules said, Dean Blandino, this calculation obstructs technology to identify unless it is somehow linked to the exact time to which the player is broken.
This led the NFL to take the road to Hawk-Eye technology in Sony, which is based on a range of cameras and is widely used in football and tennis. Hawk-Eye technology has actually been founded for use in cricket, and their website shows football balls on goal lines and tennis monitoring.
It was announced last summer as ready for the implementation of the NFL, but that did not occur due to problems with the equipment of all the stages of the NFL with the complete contingent of the cameras in appropriate calibrated locations.
There were also questions about the time it took to process information to make a decision.
But, apparently, these problems are solved. Gary Brantley, NFL information director, recently said: “For 2025, we will measure the first downs just thanks to technology.”
You can hear Rufus Hack, CEO of Sony Sports, discuss it and other applications here.
Thus, unless another case in the next Super Bowl, all this discussion on tracking and chain gangs and rereading challenges can be theoretical. Only, to be replaced by possible discussions on problems in skeletal data in the Sony sports matrix.
Chris Myers is an advertiser, journalist and award -winning studio for Fox Sports. Follow him on Twitter @The_ChrisMyers.
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