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Since the Eagles need major WR help, would they dare contact Antonio Brown, knowing he could be suspended? Low risk and high reward if he's not suspended...?

 

Cowboys defensive lineman Daniel Ross won’t play this season after being placed on injured reserve in August because of a shoulder injury and any future availability may be impacted by a suspension.

Ross was arrested on Wednesday morning in Frisco, Texas. The Frisco police department said, via Clarence Hill of the Fort Worth Star-Telegram, that Ross was arrested after a traffic stop for possession of marijuana and unlawful possession of a weapon.

Ross initially signed with the Cowboys in 2017 to fill the roster opening created by running back Ezekiel Elliott‘s suspension.

He played in three games that year and returned to appear in 13 games during the 2018 season. He has 19 tackles, two sacks and a forced fumble over the course of his career.

 

Through nine weeks, replay review overturns PI calls and non-calls nine times...

The one year (and perhaps only one year) pass interference replay-review experiment has resulted in limited reversals of calls and non-calls made on the field.

According to the league, 63 total replay reviews of pass interference calls and non-calls have occurred through the first nine weeks of the season. Of those, only nine decisions made on the field have been overturned by senior V.P. of officiating Al Riveron and/or his lieutenants.

For offensive pass interference, 26 reviews have occurred. Of those, 11 were reviewed after rulings on the field of OPI. On 15 occasions, a non-call of offensive pass interference was reviewed.

As to the 11 reviews of OPI rulings, eight were initiated by coaches and three came from the automatic review process. Nine were upheld, and two were overturned. No coaches challenges of OPI rulings have been successful; the two reversals came from the automatic review process.

Regarding the 15 offensive pass interference not called on the field, 12 came from the coach’s challenge and three were initiated by the automatic process. Twelve rulings on the field were upheld. Of the three that were overturned, two came from the automatic process and one from a coach’s challenge.

For defensive pass interference, 37 reviews have occurred. On 11 occasions, a ruling of DPI on the field was reviewed, with 10 coming from coaches and one coming from the automatic process. None of the rulings on the field of DPI have been overturned.

Another 26 non-calls of defensive pass interference have been reviewed. Coaches have initiated the process 23 times, with four of them successful. An automatic review has happened three times, with no reversals.

The overall success rate for coaches’ challenges of pass interference calls and non-calls stands at 9.4 percent, with 53 challenges and only five reversals.

As to the automatic process, no reviews of defensive pass interference calls or non-calls have resulted in a reversal. For offensive pass interference, the automatic process has a 66.7-percent success rate, with four of six resulting in the ruling on the field being changed.

It’s no surprise that the success rate for red-flag challenges from coaches is so low. Riveron, either on his own volition or (more likely) at the behest of someone higher than him in the league office, has applied a much higher standard than the one he intended to use, based on things he told teams and media before the regular season began. And yet coaches still throw their flags, confident that the replay angles will show clear and obvious visual evidence that contradicts the decisions made by officials — even though Rivenon rarely utilizes the standard he had intended to use.

Some coaches, like Jon Gruden of the Raiders, have vowed to keep throwing the red flag, reluctance of Riveron to act be damned. As a result, it’s still unclear how clear the evidence much be in order to trigger a reversal, making the entire process a crapshoot that produces much more crap than shoot.

The situation virtually guarantees that replay review for pass interference calls and non-calls won’t be used by the league in 2020 and beyond. The question then becomes whether the league will devise some other procedure for preventing another Rams-Saints debacle.

And that’s really the overriding story. Regardless of how replay review will, or won’t, be used for pass interference calls or non-calls, the on-field officials are doing a poor job of spotting interference in real time and at full speed.

It’s possible that it’s always been this way, and that the availability of replay review has made it more noticeable.

That reality makes the entire process even more of a failure. Thanks to the inability of the officials working the NFC Championship to spot one of the most egregious failures to call pass interference in the history of the league, everyone now notices much more clearly and obviously the various failures of officiating when it comes to spotting pass interference — even if the replay review process is doing much too little to cure them.

Source; PFT

 

Not sure I agree with putting the total numbers as high on the priority list. Even if one call was overturned or one call not reversed, how important was that said call to the outcome or flow to the game? I prefer to put emphasis on importance rather than total numbers.

 

I Prefer to get rid of the Interference replay all together.

 

Three weeks ago, Screamin' A. Smith was bellowing about how Dallas needed to sign AB because "they're desperate." This week, Screamin' A. is hollering about how the Eagles should sign AB because "they're desperate."

 

The Steelers could use him too

 

Seahawks, Cardinals and 49ers are in the rumor mill also as possible landing spots for AB.

 

From the 'speak of the devil' files...

The NFL’s Personal Conduct Policy investigation into allegations of sexual assault and rape made against Antonio Brown in a civil lawsuit earlier this year is ready to move on to a meeting with Brown.

Josina Anderson of ESPN reported on Thursday that Brown will be meeting with league officials next week. Via a league source, PFT has confirmed that meeting will take place on November 14.

That’s a big step toward an eventual resolution of Brown’s case. The prospect of putting him on the Commissioner’s Exempt list is not something the league has addressed and that’s been cited as a reason why Brown has remained unsigned since being released by the Patriots after one game with the team. Landing on that list would put Brown on paid leave while the league continued investigating the case.

After the Seahawks claimed Josh Gordon on waivers last week, there was word that they did due diligence on adding Brown. Anderson reports that other teams have shown interest in signing the wideout if the investigation is resolved, although it’s unclear if next week’s meeting will result in that kind of clarity about Brown’s football future.

source; PFT

 

49ers would be interesting - re-uniting AB with Emanuel Sanders.

 

Stephen A is desperate for ratings.

 

The Eagles are bringing back Jordan Matthews for a third time, so I guess they don't want the Brown circus in town?

 

I wish AB would go away and take Stephen A Dumbass with him.

 

Steven A is highly paid for the bullshit he displays
6 million a year

 

hey BWW - how was Philly ?

 

yeah I don't see Brown playing in the NFL anytime soon ! lol.

 

i like Steven A over Skip Bayless!

 

That’s like choosing between diarrhea and vomiting