NFL Rule Change Needed?

Evolution. Its part of life, and sports. In the sporting world, it can come in many forms. Training, conditioning, strategy, ect. One aspect that gets tweeks and evolves all the time are the rules. Sometimes those rules do need to be changed, as does how those rules should be called. The National Football League needs to do that now. Perfect example of that came on Sunday in the NFC Championship game between the Saints and Rams.

In the fourth quarter, with the Saints driving, Nickell Robey-Coleman wiped out Saints receiver Tommylee Lewis. If you haven't seen the play yet, here's what happened:


Looks like a pass interference call right? WRONG. Refs never threw a flag and said this was a clean play. New Orleans would score on the drive and force overtime, which the Rams won the game there anyway, but that's not the point of the argument here. The debate here is what should be done about this situation?

Robey-Coleman said in a postgame interview that he went into the play to wipe out Lewis, never making an attempt to make a play on the ball. How that wasn't called was mind numbing. The refs did, in fact, admit after the game that they blew that call. Now I pose the question. Should the NFL have a new rule in place to be able to challenge situations such as this?

It's not for every single call, that would slow the pace down of the NFL to a snail's pace. We don't want that happening. But what should be allowed to happen is for coaches to be allowed to challenge certain calls. One is a perfect example from Saints and Rams with this call.

Then there was what happened in the 4th quarter between the Chiefs and Patriots. With a little over 7 minutes left in regulation and Kansas City up four, Chris Jones gets called for this:


HOW THE HELL IS THIS ROUGHING THE PASSER!?!?!?!?!?

I'm sorry but this was another horrible call by the refs. Its situations like this, horrible calls like this should be allowed to be challenged. And it's not those ticky tack calls that are borderline. That would really slow things down. The only thing that can be challenged are the calls that are THIS obvious.

It might take a little whilke to figure things out and get the exact wording down, and I'm sure there's more details to this. maybe my reaction is too simple thinking. Who knows. I do know one thing, Calls like this can't allowed to be upheld in the league anymore. Its bull and it needs to stop.

NFL upper management, get on this now!