Here is a slight oversimplification of the proposals:
Can’t fault a guy for being thorough I suppose.
“If it doesn’t go through, I’m not losing any sleep over it,” McVay told reporters on Tuesday. “It was just because it was an impactful play in the season. I think my feeling is even if I was on the other side, those are things that I think we would probably agree should fall under the same bucket as that. You have to write it in a way that makes it a little bit more complicated. Long story short, we were trying to get that play to be falling under the same parameters of not being able to advance a fumble in those types of situations even though it wasn’t considered a fumble because it was a backwards pass.”
My personal take is that had McVay – or whoever it was for that matter, but McVay is the spokesperson at the moment – played it a little more cool, this could have had a strong chance of success. The timer alone might have done it. But this is quite a rework, and three-quarters of the teams have to sign off on this for it to go through.