JamesWsenior
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Cannot remember but snow blower should balance it out
NFL Finally Replacing Antiquated Chain Gang To Measure First Downs
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Sounds like they are using the Hawk Eye technology used in many Tennis tournaments. They are adding new cameras throughout the stadiums and will keep the line crews as backup.
The tech is quick and reliable; should be a much improved change. In terms of the 'suspense' factor; they use delayed / slowed animations to create a similar feeling. In real time, it is effectively instantaneous.
The tech is quick and reliable; should be a much improved change. In terms of the 'suspense' factor; they use delayed / slowed animations to create a similar feeling. In real time, it is effectively instantaneous.
I knew the NFL painting End Racism in the end zone would change things.
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Yeah, it takes like 5 seconds to review a call in tennis. If the other sports aren't embarrassed of their play review technology taking 100 times longer, there's something wrong with them.
I will tell you why it happened.....because the Buffalo Bills beloved by the NFL didn't make the Super Bowl again. Bills lose in OT, change the OT rules. Bills have close call on key first down, change the first down process. Neither process will help a TE catch a football that goes straight through his hands though.
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What do you mean? The league loves the Chiefs. They're the ones who inherited that role from the Brady era Patriots.
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Yeah, there is the argument that taking the human element out of sports makes it robotic and the human element is what makes it entertaining. But it looks rediculous to use chain gangs in the 21st century.
If you don't like it now, wait until Millennials are running sports. People born since the 80's don't know how to live without out technology, so they won't hesitate to technologize anything. The only thing good about that is that Millennials will take the handcuffs off reviewing plays. The leagues make it crime to review a play right now. Teams are punished even if the review was justified, and they aren't given enough challenges.
Us Gen Xers love technologizing things, but we're careful about it. We don't just jump right in without thinking like post 70's people do.
I'm on the earliest spectrum of mellinneals that you can be and I hate the technology crap when it comes to sports. The human error thing is part of the sport, and while yes sometimes it sucks that a call doesn't go your way, it's part of the damn game. Sometimes the ball doesn't get put exactly where it should be but it's part of the game. I will never like the addition of all this electronic garbage... ever.
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Pretty sure there wasn't a single time last season where they brought the actual chains out like they used to. Took me about halfway through the season to notice not seeing them.
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I remember seeing it once or twice. But I don't know if it was in college or the NFL. In the article it says there was an average of 12 a week
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They tried this in PS last year and it was way too time consuming. I've been an advocate for this for years but I don't know if the tech is just there yet. Lots of real world issues can pop up. We're still at the point where the team's headsets have issues sometimes.
NFL finally replacing antiquated chain gang to measure first downs
The league would use the tech as their primary way to determine if the ball had crossed the first-down line.nypost.com
I don't understand why it took this long, other than the chain gang was a tradition that the league wanted to hold on to, which isn't a bad argument for keeping it, but it's time to get into the 21st century.
What?! I can't remember the last time I saw one. In college games either.
The article doesn't explain why it might not prevent that situation from occurring again.
No **** Dick Tracy! It is funny though that everybody's worried about getting the spot exactly right but nobody ever generally complains about refs eyeballing the spot. They only complain after controversial plays.
They could have a laser beam going across the field to help the refs to exactly spot the ball. Is that what's gonna happen?
Conceptually, it should work great. However you add to that: the mapping of the field, the integrity of the chip in the ball, the infrastructure needed in each stadium, and the timing needed for it to deliver a reliable exact field location, it's a scary implementation. What happens when it's our team that is going for a critical first down and the ball suddenly is not able to be read? Then you bring out the same grizzled referees with less muscle memory from not having had to do the chain gang thing and they come out and give what we view as a bad spot?
It still won't fix a bad spot by the ref's...
That is the issue. Just think from the kick return point at the beginning of the game to the end of the game, how many small inches have been added or subtracted from where the ball should have been. Now extrapolate that out to 272 regular season games. It'll make your head swirl.
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Bills cry and rules get changed. I noticed no one seemed to care when in the 2022 playoff game against the Bills, the Dolphins had a FIRST DOWN taken away on a bad spot late in the 4th....but when the Bills cry, rules change. Surprised they haven't banned field goals yet since the Bills keep missing them to blow playoff games