Four Sask. players named to Canada world junior hockey championship team
Dec 14, 2024
Berkly Catton, Brayden Yager, Caden Price and Tanner Howe were all named.
The NFL is in its inaugural season of allowing pass interference calls and non-calls to be challenged.
The CFL has been doing this for six seasons now to varying degrees of failure, depending on how you look at it.
The NFL’s first season has a been a comedy of errors and then those errors are rarely being corrected by review anyway.
That has led Dallas Cowboys vice-president Stephen Jones to openly campaign to get rid of the challenges for pass interference after just one season. Jones is also on the competition committee, which could make such a recommendation.
Some fans wouldn’t mind. However, we have to remember why these leagues adopted it in the first place. In 2013 there was an egregious error in the playoffs involving the Montreal Alouettes. Earlier in 2019 there was an even worse error in the NFC championship game.
There needs to be a rule to correct these calls. But there also needs to be a way to correct these calls without allowing coaches to abuse their ability to challenge.
The NHL figured this out quickly: Penalize a team for getting a challenge wrong. It’s time football does more than just take away a timeout. There needs to be a stiffer penalty to discourage unnecessary challenges but leagues have to continue to allow coaches to challenge egregious calls that could change the result of a playoff game.