NFL considering challenges for penalties

The NFL is giving thought to allowing head coaches to expand their challenge arsenal, including penalty calls. This is a horrible idea.

Any time you can correct a mistake, you should. It’s the decent thing to do. Unless you are the NFL and are thinking about forcing officials to review penalty calls. That’s just setting up madness.

During the league meetings in Arizona, there has been talk about giving coaches the latitude to challenge infractions, likely including anything from holding to pass interference. This would be great in theory, except a penalty to one person is something innocent to another.

This isn’t baseball. A ball is either fair or foul when smacked down the left-field line. In football, there is no such interpretation on most calls. If we’re talking about a blow to the head, absolutely. If we are talking about false starts and too many men on the field, yes sir. If we are talking about holding, pass interference or roughing the passer (due to a late hit), good luck with that.

Fans are always going to complain about penalties. If their team won, the referees did a great job. If their teams loses? Schmucks. All of them. Potentially taking money from the other owner.

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Nobody wants to lose because of a bad call, and certainly a few would be rectified under this new rule. Unfortunately, the downside is going to far outweigh the good moments, and it’s going to be a chaos-filled mess more often than not.