The league’s expansion of replay review to include pass interference calls and non-calls makes NFL senior V.P. of officiating Al Riveron the most powerful man in football. He now has the ultimate authority William Jackson Jersey , as to every game, to determine whether large chunks of field position will shift from one team to the other.With great power, as the cliché goes, comes great responsibility. And that responsibility includes a need for transparency.As to the most controversial call of Thursday night, an apparent phantom offensive pass interference call against Washington that was challenged by coach Jay Gruden, Riveron decided to uphold the ruling on the field. After the game, he declined to say much about the decision to a pool reporter.“We’re not going to talk about what constituted it Trey Hopkins Jersey , because what happens here is the ruling on the field was offensive pass interference,” Riveron said. “And remember in replay, we start replay with the premise on the field that the call is correct. And unless we have clear and obvious visual evidence to overturn the ruling on the field, we will not do that. In this situation, there was not clear and obvious visual evidence to overturn it, so we let the ruling on the field stand.”The TV copy of the play shows no interference as the ball arrives. It’s possible, however Clayton Fejedelem Jersey , that the push came earlier in what appeared to be a flag route, with the receiver gained separation by giving the defender a shove that the officials saw. Indeed, one of the broadcast angles shows that the official had reached for the flag and begun to throw it out beforeIt’s also possible that the referee explained this to Riveron, who was unable to pinpoint the moment of offensive pass interference based on the available TV angles.If that’s the case, why wouldn’t Riveron just say that? It’s possible that he doesn’t want to highlight the reality that the replay process has an inherent flaw. When it comes to pass interference, plenty of pushing and shoving and jostling will happen while the ball is in the air, but before it — or the cameras — arrive. Absent cameras trained to all eligible receivers at all times Andrew Billings Jersey , there will be situations where instances of called and uncalled interference will be unreviewable, because it will have happened away from the view of the sole device for allowing replay review. There’s going to be some initial excitement in Cincinnati, what with a new coach for the first time in more than a decade and a half.And new Bengals coach Zac Taylor could feel it from his players, in a scene his star wideout A.J. Green described as “like the first day of school.”Via Fletcher Page of the, Taylor said he could sense it was time when he walked to the meeting room to deliver his opening message.“I could feel the noise level decrease as time got closer because they knew the meeting was about to start,” Taylor said. “It was a good first start.鈥漃layers clearly felt a new energy around the team, which fired coach Marvin Lewis after 16 years of .518 football (which seems ordinary C.J. Uzomah Jersey , but was far beyond anything they had enjoyed before he showed up).But one of the things Taylor has held over was Lewis’ penchant for pithy slogans on T-shirts, and this year’s read: “It’s about us.”“It’s about the team, it’s about us,” Bengals quarterback Andy Dalton said. “That’s the message that’s put up in the weight room and everything. It’s just getting everybody to buy in that this is a team thing. You’re doing it for the guy next to you. Day one, that was the biggest part of his message.”Taylor tried to downplay the impact of his first day at work, but conceded that it “felt like game day” at the same time.“In the grand scheme of things, it matters very little because we鈥檙e trying to build each and every day Jeff Driskel Jersey ,” Taylor said. “So tomorrow鈥檚 team meeting is just as important as this team meeting. I鈥檇 be lying if I said you don鈥檛 think about that first time in front of the players and what your message is going to be. What鈥檚 important is that we keep stacking every single day and every single day that the players gain information we want to relay to them. Every team meeting is as good as the last one.鈥滱nd for Taylor, the bell will ring again today, and he’ll get back to work.