Upon further review, the NFL is throwing out its controversial pass interference rule.
The NFL's experiment with a replay review system for pass interference is ending after just one season. The rule, which was implemented in 2019 and allowed for a coach's challenge for interference calls or non-calls, wasn't even placed on the agenda by the league's competition committee for next month's owners meetings. The meetings are scheduled to be held outside Los Angeles on May 20-21, although there is a chance the owners will meet via conference call if there is a continued shelter-in-place order because of the ongoing coronavirus pandemic.
The competition committee will put forward a rule that would prevent teams from "manipulating the game clock by committing multiple dead-ball fouls while the clock is running." In last season's AFC wild-card game between the Titans and Patriots, Tennessee coach Mike Vrabel purposely had his team take two delay-of-game penalties and ran more than a minute off the clock. Patriots coach Bill Belichick employed a similar tactic against the Jets last season, calling it "a loophole that will be closed and probably should be closed."
