Can you challenge pass interference call

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Around the NFL. Owners make pass interference, non-calls reviewable Published: Mar 26, at PM. Jeremy Bergman Digital Content Editor. This rule change is only for the season. Coaches will still have only two challenge flags. On Tuesday night, Benson celebrated the rule change. This article has been reproduced in a new format and may be missing content or contain faulty links. Please use the Contact Us link in our site footer to report an issue.

Related Content. Check out the each team's injury report for Week 10 of the NFL season. See all the Action Replay every game all season. That may be the dirty secret underlying the failure of the pass interference challenge system: The procedure doesn't work because it was designed to not work, because some powerful forces in the NFL never wanted to implement it in the first place.

Jones made it clear he was never a fan of the new procedure, even though Cowboys coach Jason Garrett made an "impassioned plea" for replay challenges at the league's annual meetings. It sounds like some of the league's power players wanted little more than a fail-safe against Rams-Saints-level fiascos.

But coaches such as Garrett and the Saints' Sean Payton a major voice on the league's competition committee wanted the power to challenge more routine calls. So the league, with its usual foresight, made it look like it was implementing the latter while secretly planning to treat it as the former.

So far, the double standard for pass interference has focused extra attention on each week's worst officiating mistakes. The offensive pass interference penalty against T. Hilton in Week 5 would have been just another bad call—Hilton stood nearly motionless while a defender stepped around him—if a Colts challenge had not stopped the game so the television audience could see the obvious error over and over again.

Then the call was upheld, which simply compounded the error. Officials themselves now seem confused about the pass interference rules. They threw a flag in Sunday's Texans-Chiefs game when tight end Travis Kelce was thrown to the turf on a Patrick Mahomes interception but then picked it up after determining incorrectly that Kelce wasn't the intended receiver.

Referee Shawn Hochuli announced on the field that there was " potentially " defensive holding on the play but did not call that foul. And defensive holding cannot be officiated by a replay challenge, no matter how blatant it might be, because them's the rules.

There also appears to be more uncalled defensive pass interference this season, which may be an inevitable result of the double standard and of Riveron's posting official videos of defenders shoving receivers and declaring "this is fine. You can email Michael Hurley or find him on Twitter michaelFhurley. CBSN Boston. School Closings. The news was not as good elsewhere.

They may be calling upon an old friend to fill the void. That includes Gillette Stadium, where the Patriots will host a special pinning ceremony for veterans of the Vietnam War. Katie Johnston reports. Just review it , some screamed into the void. The rule change came after the crew in the NFC championship game failed to throw a flag on an obvious pass interference that would have put the New Orleans in prime position to win the game. Even the NFL admitted later a flag should have been thrown.

But competition committee chairman Rich McKay said on SiriusXM NFL Radio that there was so little support for the rule that none of the owners were even going to bother bringing it back to the table to vote on. Note to readers: if you purchase something through one of our affiliate links we may earn a commission.