Mike Florio

It wasn't about safety.

It was because somebody didn't like it.

And I think it was as simple as in the NFC Championship last year, you had that moment where the commanders jumped offside multiple times to the point where they almost awarded the Eagles a touchdown.

I think the commissioner saw that and said, we can't have this.

We've got to get rid of that play.

They took a run at it.

It didn't work.

And now they've abandoned it.

This year, there really isn't anything that's like, oh my gosh, they're going to make some major change to the rules.

Rich McKay said that the other day, that there aren't a lot of proposals.

And I think it's an opportunity to get their act together when it comes to officiating an instant replay.

They admitted yesterday, Troy Vincent did, that there were at least five plays that they screwed up on replay review, including what was a very consequential call in the Week 14 game between the Steelers and the Ravens where Aaron Rodgers caught a batted ball

and was going to the ground and lost possession and the Ravens intercepted it.

They overturned the interception into a catch.

And as I said, after the Bills-Broncos playoff game, the same reasoning they applied to that Rodgers play, if you apply that to the Brandon Cooks play, the Bills have a catch there and they win that game.

And Sean McDermott isn't fired.

And it just shows you when there are so many close calls and there are so many questions that come up, they have to button this up.

And if there's not a bunch of other rule changes that are going to be dragged down with

they should focus their full resources on improving officiating and improving instant replay so we don't have these situations where it's like, oh, my God, if they had just gotten these calls right, coaches would not have lost their jobs.

Yes.