Tuesday caused a number of NFL rule modifications to be enforced beginning in 2025. Amongst them are an growth to using replay help, together with a tweak to the extra time format.
It was identified properly prematurely of this week’s league conferences that consideration can be given to broadening using replay help. To no shock, then, the league has dedicated to doing so. Expanded use of video replay to assist on-field officers was experimented with in 2024, and that may proceed subsequent yr, as detailed by NFL Community’s Tom Pelissero.
Because of this, penalties issued for calls comparable to roughing the passer, intentional grounding and pointless roughness are actually topic to evaluate (with out a coach’s problem being wanted). Video officers can appropriate calls by nullifying penalties when clear proof overturning the unique resolution exists. With that stated, Tuesday’s modifications don’t permit for penalties to be issued upon evaluate for performs the place no flag is thrown.
The NFL not too long ago amended playoff extra time guidelines to make sure that each groups obtain the ball not less than as soon as within the additional body. That change introduced concerning the expectation that it could quickly be duplicated within the common season.
Certainly, Dianna Russini of The Athletic notes each groups can have possession even within the occasion of a landing being scored by one among them in regular-season contests.
Regardless of that tweak, OT throughout the common season will nonetheless include a 10- (fairly than 15-) minute quarter. That might lead to time constraints for the second workforce to obtain the ball, relying on how lengthy the primary workforce’s landing drive lasts. Nonetheless, the results of the coin toss originally of the additional body will carry much less weight within the wake of Tuesday’s change.
These two modifications come on the identical day that the NFL’s dynamic kickoff was accepted on a full-time foundation (with touchbacks being moved up 5 yards to encourage additional upticks within the charge of returns). Consideration to amending onside kicks will happen later this offseason; the identical can also be true of the tush push play.
