Sheil Kapadia

And then the other things you mentioned and how much of this is just the NFL getting this out there to win the PR battle.

But the stuff that the NFL...

seemingly is pushing for, which is that like, hey, we're going to look at which officials are doing the best job.

And those guys are, you know, those officials, men or women, are going to get the jobs for the biggest games and the playoffs and the championship games and the Super Bowl versus seniority.

I'm like,

great.

The only thing in the NFL where meritocracy is actually a thing that other than playing, that sounds great to me.

So, you know, I, I came across hating to ever side with the NFL on matters like this.

And I'm sure that the, um, the refs association will get their side out and maybe I will change my mind, but, but they better get their like details out.

Cause if it's just that they're

they feel like they're not getting paid enough or that they don't want those measures.

I'm like, I'm not that sympathetic to your argument.

I'm actually more, you know, I actually more align more with the NFL's argument here.

Yeah, this is pretty interesting.

And just to clarify for people who are new to this, like, uh, I am in wrapping my head around it, what Lindsay's saying, there's the one rule is in place regardless of who's officiating games.

And that's that replay officials in New York, they're going to have the authority to disqualify a player, uh,

and direct that a penalty be enforced, even if the officials on the field didn't see it.

But that's where the serious flagrant or non-flagrant football acts like Lindsay was explaining there.

So that's happening regardless.

That's happening in 2026, regardless of who the refs are.