The NFL made waves this year when they introduced instant replay-assisted review for pass interference penalties (called or not), but things haven’t gone as expected. It’s not that the review time is slowing down games, or deciding the results of who wins and who loses. It’s that the officials in charge of the process appear to be going rogue.
According to stats collected by NFL Research, challenges on pass interference penalties have gone 5-for-53 in the first nine weeks of the regular season. 90.6% of calls have been upheld, meaning officials have admitted they’ve gotten it wrong just 9.