After a wildly controversial moment in the NFC Championship Game a season ago, the NFL has decided to overhaul their pass interference rules a bit in 2019, making it a replay-reviewable play.
How that ultimately pans out remains to be seen, but New York Giants cornerback Janoris Jenkins feels it “could be a train wreck.”
“I mean, it could be a train wreck,” Jenkins told NJ Advance Media. “We’ve got to deal with the consequences.”
The NFL, commissioner Roger Goodell and team owners recognize the experiment could fall flat as well, which is why it’s only on the table for one season. For now.
Second-year referee Shawn Hochuli, son of the legendary Ed Hochuli, was in East Rutherford this week and explained that the new PI challenge rule will focus on a “clear and obvious” violation that results in a “significant hindrance.”
For Giants wide receiver Russell Shepard, that’s just a lot of mumbo jumbo.
“How do you define that, blatant?” Shepard said. “I just don’t really know how to define blatant, as they say. I don’t think nobody at this point knows really how to define that, or what that looks like.”
The rule, like the definition of a catch, is vague and open to interpretation. For that reason, you really have to fall in line with Jenkins’ thinking — this has all the potential to be a complete disaster.
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