The Refs are so scrutinized and the super slow mo and the reviews are simply not good for the game. The game happens in real time.... not super slow mo.
I also hate this mindset that the Refs withhold their calls until after a fumble/not fumble play is over and then they let replay decide. This turns the Refs into game monitors and not refs. They are hesitant to make close calls. They put too much in the hands of a replay official or an HC to throw a red flag. Further.... by always letting fumble/not fumble plays go through, thereby making every similar play automatically a "fumble" , that means that when there is not indisputable video evidence to overturn, it IS a fumble. And so when it's one of those "stands as called" determinations (meaning they really can't see enough to determine it either way), then the rule slants all close 50/50 fumble calls to "fumble".
They need to reduce, not add to, the number and kind of plays that are reviewable. Things like did the runner cross the goal line, did the runner step out of bounds, stuff like that. But judgment calls like holding, PI, roughing, etc. need to stay in the hands of the field ref without the ability to challenge or review.
They are slowing turning the game on the field into a video game and it just irritates the devil out of me.
