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NFL to Think about Rule Change to Use Replay on Facemask Penalties, Roger Goodell Says

Taylyn Hadley February 3, 2025 Chris Graythen/Getty Images After a handful of games were affected by missed facemask penalties this season, NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell told reporters that the league will “talk about” adding replay assistant use to get the calls right. “We want to use technology to supplement and support officials in getting it

NFL to Think about Rule Change to Use Replay on Facemask Penalties, Roger Goodell Says

Taylyn HadleyFebruary 3, 2025

NEW ORLEANS, LOUISIANA - FEBRUARY 03: NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell speaks during a press conference ahead of the Super Bowl LIX at Caesars Superdome on February 03, 2025 in New Orleans, Louisiana. (Photo by Chris Graythen/Getty Images)

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After a handful of video games have been affected by missed facemask penalties this season, NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell told reporters that the league will “speak about” including replay assistant use to get the calls proper.

“We need to use know-how to complement and help officers in getting it proper,” Goodell told reporters. “I see us sooner or later including extra performs (to replay evaluation), like facemasks, and so forth. … They do not have time to return and look, they have to make a snap resolution.”

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Roger Goodell reiterates the NFL will think about including facemask violations and different penalties to the replay-assist system.

Goodell added that replay help had been optimistic for the sport, and he believes the league will increase its use shifting ahead.

“I see us, sooner or later, including extra performs,” Goodell said.

Adjustments within the kinds of performs eligible for replay help would come throughout the offseason after conferences are held.

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This isn’t the primary time that using facemask replay has been introduced up as a potential change. NFL government vice chairman of soccer operations Troy Vincent talked about it throughout the December league assembly.

“Regarding sure, as a result of that is an enormous miss—that is an enormous foul,” Vincent stated on the assembly, per the NFL. “We want to think about—or for the membership to contemplate—placing that foul class that we are able to see, placing that on the sphere to assist as a result of there’s a frustration. We consider that’s one class that we are able to doubtlessly get proper.”

That stemmed from a missed facemask penalty within the fourth quarter of the Cincinnati Bengals’ 27-20 victory over the Dallas Cowboys when a Cowboys defender grabbed Joe Burrow’s facemask and twisted his helmet, leading to a strip-sack.

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An enormous facemask penalty was additionally missed within the Minnesota Vikings’ 30-20 loss in opposition to the Los Angeles Rams in October, when Vikings quarterback Sam Darnold’s facemask was grabbed throughout the Vikings’ remaining drive of the sport.

The addition of reviewable performs could be an enormous deal, because the league has been hesitant to permit subjective performs to be reviewable. Go interference performs grew to become reviewable in 2019, however that solely lasted one season.

In any other case, the NFL has by no means allowed replays to find out {that a} penalty was missed on the sphere. That might change for a facemask foul, which carries a 15-yard penalty.

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“The membership actually has to resolve what they need that customary to be,” Vincent stated, per the NFL. “That’s would you like a few of these issues which can be subjective, goal, do you need to embrace these? That is why you all the time hear us say ‘crawl, stroll, jog.’ … This 12 months the facemask appeared like the plain; that retains displaying up. A number of years previous it was possibly the roughing the passer, the low contact.

Heading into the 2025 season, some massive modifications in replay could possibly be applied.

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