Buffalo Bills head coach Sean McDermott is not great with challenging calls. He’s 3-for-15 in his career thus far. One thing that made every coach’s record on challenges poor last year was the new pass interference challenge rule.
It appears that rule is going to be one-and-done.
It didn’t take long for that new rule to be proven as a waste of time. Through the first nine weeks of the season, nearly 91 percent of all pass interference challenges had been upheld, with just five being overturned. Though the percentage got better over the final weeks of the season (finishing with 24-of-101 being reversed), the damage has apparently been done.
Per NFL Network’s Ian Rapoport, the rule is going away:
From @NFLTotalAccess: It appears that being able to review pass interference calls like the NFL did last year will be one-and-done. pic.twitter.com/dvqfwxfZ5o
— Ian Rapoport (@RapSheet) April 6, 2020
The rule was implemented following the 2018 NFC Championship Game between the Los Angeles Rams and New Orleans Saints. The Rams won and went to the Super Bowl that year thanks to an obvious missed penalty called on former Bills cornerback Nickell Robey-Coleman.
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