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In typical Packer fashion they did not make a big deal out of the network delay in the feed to the packers coache at Atlanta. But they did ask quesions about it to the leaque.
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quote:Originally posted by EaganPackFan:
If it is possible for the home team to significantly delay the feed to the opposing coaches booth, why not have a trusted person watching the game on TV and on the phone with the coaches booth during the game?
quote:Originally posted by EaganPackFan:
If it is possible for the home team to significantly delay the feed to the opposing coaches booth, why not have a trusted person watching the game on TV and on the phone with the coaches booth during the game?
quote:Originally posted by CUPackFan:
I'm sure people will support it saying "it's home field advantage" or "it all evens out over a season" but this has absolutely nothing to do with the game of football.
quote:Good officiating shouldn't rely on coaching challenges, the speed of television networks nor be subject to home-field advantage. The whole idea of having officials is to establish neutral third parties to administer and adjudicate the game as fairly as possible. The addition of coaching strategy, the reliance on network producers and the emergence of creative scoreboard operators block that ideal.
If there is going to be instant replay in pro football, I would much rather see it implemented with the same neutrality that officials are expected to operate under. You might be tired of hearing this from me, but why should a home team be more entitled to good calls than the visitors? McCarthy grimly referred to that as "part of our game," but I don't think it should be.
quote:Are the people in the director/producer chair unbiased and neutral ? NO
The original intent of Instant Replay was to correct mistakes, not to confer competitive advantage or to allow the Networks to have a say in the outcome of game-changing calls
quote:Originally posted by GBFanForLife:
I don't believe the Falcons hurried up. I do believe that they delayed the replay to the booth.
quote:Originally posted by GBFanForLife:
Then how do you explain there were only 4 seconds on the play clock? I guess McCarthy and the coaches in the booth are to slow and dumb to figure it out.
quote:That after experiencing a significant delay in their coaches booth on a critical replay of Falcons tight end Tony Gonzalez’s fourth-down catch that led to a touchdown, general manager Ted Thompson and vice president Russ Ball went to the NFL about it.
quote:Originally posted by :
This was the crux of the article linked in the first post.
It makes no sense!
There was no replay to be delayed.
quote:Originally posted by Boris:
Falcons fans inside the fox truck?
quote:Originally posted by YATittle:
By the way, I met the actor who played Jackie Childs some years ago at my daughter's club volleyball match in LA. Turns out his daughter was playing against my daughter. He's the son of Greg Morris, famous from original Mission Impossible TV series, and is BIG FRIENDS with Donald Driver! In fact he showed me his laptop and his background had Donald doing a Lambeau leap. He's been at Lambeau for various games over the years--big Packer fan.
quote:Originally posted by FreeSafety:
Whoever wrote this article...is a buffoon and a dunce. Stirin' up trouble.
quote:kevin seifert
So if you were viewing at home, you saw a solid replay of the "catch" well before the Falcons took the next snap. But if you were in the coaches' booth, you didn't see that replay until after the next play occurred in live action. Without spending too much time in a space-time continuum debate, the bottom line is that McCarthy is right: His assistants didn't see any replay of the play until it was too late. Consider the internal feed delay another pock on the system as currently configured.