{"id":717344,"date":"2026-01-30T20:18:15","date_gmt":"2026-01-30T20:18:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/717344\/"},"modified":"2026-01-30T20:18:15","modified_gmt":"2026-01-30T20:18:15","slug":"the-nfl-is-considering-throwing-penalty-flags-after-replay-review-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/717344\/","title":{"rendered":"The NFL is considering throwing penalty flags after replay review"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbssports.com\/nfl\/news\/nfl-video-review-flags-player-safety-hip-drop-facemask-rule-change-2026\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">According to CBS Sports\u2019 Jonathan Jones<\/a>, the NFL is \u201copen to discussing\u201d the idea of throwing penalty flags after replay review for specific types of penalties. This rule change could be decided on as early as this spring for the 2026 regular season.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Per Jones, a post-play penalty flag would have to be \u201crelated to player health and safety,\u201d a more limited set of penalties than the full menu of options. This, to me, seems like a clear response to the NFL\u2019s terrible record with hip-drop tackles.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Over the last two regular seasons, there have been over 60 fines for hip-drop tackles, but only three penalty flags have been thrown. For whatever reason, the league thought it was a smart idea to legislate that play on the following Saturday, when the NFL announces its fines, rather than during game action. They learned a hard lesson: The fines don\u2019t dissuade the players as much as penalties do, and the fans couldn\u2019t give a damn if the opposing team was fined when their team got screwed in a loss. It\u2019s just too small a price to pay for a victory.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup _1teeyfa8 ls9zuh1\">\u201dThe league heard from teams that wish the tackle, which can end a player\u2019s season with a lower-extremity injury, would be punished in real time rather than with a fine a week later.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">No crap. I could have told you that two years ago.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Jones listed the following plays as examples of penalties that relate to player health and safety: facemask, unnecessary roughness, roughing the passer, use of helmet and hip-drop tackles.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">The NFL has an officiating problem. It has for years and years and years. Jones admitted that if you could review any penalty, there would probably be a flag thrown on every play of an NFL game. What is or isn\u2019t considered a flag-worthy isn\u2019t consistently applied even within a single game, let alone from crew to crew and week to week. And in those post-game pool reports, I don\u2019t think I\u2019ve ever seen a ref admit that his crew got a call wrong. They\u2019ll always go down with the ship if given the opportunity.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">It\u2019s nice for teams to have an in-game check against officials. They certainly deserve to be knocked down a peg. I\u2019d support this rule change. It doesn\u2019t fix the underlying officiating issue in this league, though.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"According to CBS Sports\u2019 Jonathan Jones, the NFL is \u201copen to discussing\u201d the idea of throwing penalty flags&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":717345,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[2072],"tags":[1227,7,41,345,2702,2514,2513,6,428],"class_list":{"0":"post-717344","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-green-bay-packers","8":"tag-around-the-nfl","9":"tag-football","10":"tag-green-bay","11":"tag-green-bay-packers","12":"tag-green-bay-packers-news","13":"tag-greenbay","14":"tag-greenbaypackers","15":"tag-nfl","16":"tag-packers"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/115985901458488559","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/717344","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=717344"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/717344\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/717345"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=717344"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=717344"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=717344"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}