Foxborough, Mass. , new England PatriotsBill Belichick, the league’s longest-tenured head coach, reiterated his stance Monday that coaches should be allowed to challenge plays within two minutes.
Belichick did this after being asked about a key play in minnesota vikings’ Thrilling 33-30 overtime win over buffalo billin which buffalo receiver Gabe DavisA 20-yard catch was not reviewed by the officials with 17 seconds remaining in the fourth quarter.
NFL senior vice president of executive Walt Anderson later said that the play – which was crucial in setting up the tying field goal to send the game into overtime – Should have been reviewed and it was declared incomplete,
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The NFL does not allow coaches to challenge plays in the final two minutes before the end of halftime or regulation, so they are not allowed to strategically manipulate challenges to stop the clock.
“Provided the team has a challenge, they really should have an opportunity to challenge any game. I’m on the record for that,” Belichick said in his Monday videoconference.
In a Monday interview on sports radio WEEI, Belichick said: “There have been other examples of this, plays that have happened in situations where teams could not challenge because the rules prohibited [it],
“I find forward progress, and find things that you can’t challenge. I’m not talking about that. What I’m saying is that the game doesn’t have the ability to challenge that affect the outcome of the game. can – even calls holding and pass interference and things like that – I don’t understand why those plays can’t be reviewed [by a coach’s challenge],
Belichick is coaching his 48th season in the NFL, his 28th as a head coach, making him one of the more influential voices in league affairs.
First-year Minnesota head coach Kevin O’Connell, who was drafted by Belichick as quarterback in 2008, said of Davis’ reception on Sunday: “It was right in front of me. I didn’t think it was There was a catch. mode in this, it has to be something that is either over [in the press box with the replay official]or possibly new york [at the replay center], We could not find any explanation on that. I asked.”
As for Belichick, whose team was off over the weekend, he often prefers to keep his comments on NFL rules privately between coaches at the league’s annual meeting.
After sharing his thoughts on Davis’ play on Monday, he said: “Rules are rules. The competition committee and the league vote on those rules. They are what they are.”
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