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Ed Hochuli and other NFL referees can rest easier after team owners passed a rule Wednesday allowing video replays on a loose ball that could be either a fumble or an incomplete pass.   Continue reading on NFL.com

This new rule is years past due… too many poor calls have been made in the NFL recently regarding fumbles and incomplete passes.  Often, the play is not reviewable, based solely by the call on the field.  If the ref rules it a certain way, the play became un-reviewable.  This was a stupid rule, however, since it depended on the referee to have called the play “to leave it open for review”; this didn’t happen often enough unfortunately.

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