I know that at present you couldn’t remove all human officiating but I personally support some upgrades.
For example, sensors in the ball and on the field that give perfect ball placement every time. Particularly at the goal line.
We gotta wait for a ref to get gunned down in Detroit before we can rebuild him into RoboRef. Surprisingly it hasn’t happened yet.
I’d support anything that gives refs less power at this point.
Really though, I want there to be oversight and punishment for incorrect calls. I’d also prefer Sky Refs that can overrule bang bang plays or review and have power to flag egregious no calls (preferably only ones that would prevent game-changing dynamics, like egregious PI that is blatant. I wouldn’t want this for shit like holding or other stuff)
God yes. I’ve already posted about this in a comment somewhere else, but AI right now should be able to COMPLETELY fix
- Delay of game
- Encroachment / Offsides
- False Start
- Illegal Motions
- Illegal Formations
- Too many men on defense / offense
- Illegal Shift
- Illegal Substitution
- Illegal touch / player out of bounds
- Ineligible man downfield
- Intentional Grounding
- Sideline Infractions (ahem, MIKE TOMLIN)
This isn’t remotely all the penalties in football, and there are still tons that I think would be very hard for CV/AI to tackle right now (holding, taunting, etc.) that are wildly subjective calls, but if we can knock off all of the above penalties as things that referees no longer have to worry about, then perhaps it frees up more bandwidth to spend on the more subjective calls.
Obviously, as AI and computer vision develop, other things can be added in, and I still think there’s a need for humans on the field in officiating, but every year it seems like officiating gets worse.
I would support taking gambling out of any involvement in the NFL on any level. Its not error. Its in purpose. Hochuli is a prime example. Technology still has to be interpreted. What happens when you let the kids grade their own papers? Turns out everyone was right all along
Of course. Just putting a tracking chip in the ball and sensors on the field would save so much f*cking time. No more spot reviews, no more arbitrary ass “where did the punt cross the sideline in the air” calls, no more reviews on every damned goal line play. All for it.
And of course, it won’t happen.