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[QUOTE="Stern, post: 4579357, member: 527"]
You are never going to have a perfect game by the refs, so if there are a couple of bad calls, life will move on. It's not the end of the world. Giving each team 2 challenges will mitigate enough bad calls to where it's not a huge deal if the refs miss a couple.

Plus, not all calls are created equal; if it's 1st and 10 and a guy runs for 9, but the replay shows he should have gotten 10 yards and a first down, are you really going to review a 2nd and 1 if you're a coach? Is it worth the ref stopping the game on his own for 5 minutes to review? Or can you let that slide and just keep the game moving? This is just one example but there are plays similar to this in scope that are reviewed, and it's like, why? Or if a team is down 30-7 with 5 min to go in the game, in reality, the game is over, are we really going to review if a guy got 1 foot down or not? Today we do silly stuff like this and it makes no sense. Just live with the call on the field and keep the game moving its a blowout!

That's where the issue is; it's meaningless plays that don't matter are being reviewed when they don't need to be, and it has no impact on the big picture or outcome of the game. The coaches are going to be smart enough to save their challenges for the big plays that impact the game that they need to review. Plus, you have all scoring and turnovers reviewed automatically...after that, gotta just live with the human element of this stuff.
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