Jon Gruden Thinks the NFL Should Eliminate Instant Replay
“When you’re looking at is it a catch or isn’t it a catch at that speed it’s hard to tell. So I think if you threw that slow-mo out, I think you’d get back to common sense. Let the naked eye determine some of these calls. But it always looks like pass interference when you’re going that slow; it always seems to look a little bit more dramatic in slow motion.” -NFL.com
Hey Jon, I know you’ve been out of the coaching game for quite a bit, but I’ve got some news for you man. You can’t review penalties on instant replay, man.
This is probably Jon’s first tell-tale sign of being a bit of a dinosaur to the current state of the NFL. I CANNOT WAIT for Gruden to be mic’d up and hear him go bananas when a replay review takes longer than two minutes. He’s going to lose his goddamn mind, especially if it goes against his favor. Should he have said let’s limit replays and/or shorten the time they have to decide? Absolutely, because you can’t just eliminate instant replay. Letting these refs decide crucial, game deciding calls with the naked eye is asking for an apocalypse, so that wasn’t the best look for Gruden showing he’s still has a pulse with the current NFL.
Either way, Jon Gruden is back and he’s got some takes, man.