GREEN BAY — Matt LaFleur isn’t sad about the demise of the NFL’s misguided one-year experiment with coaches being able to challenge pass-interference penalties.
“I was ecstatic,” the Green Bay Packers coach said Thursday during an appearance on ESPN Wisconsin. “Don’t you guys remember how angry I would get when I would have to challenge a PI because I knew it wasn’t going to get overturned? I was extremely happy. It just takes that decision out of your hands.”
NFL coaches — led by New Orleans Saints coach Sean Payton — pushed hard at last spring’s NFL meetings for such plays to be reviewable after a blown pass-interference call cost Payton’s Saints a trip to the Super Bowl in the 2018 NFC Championship Game against the Los Angeles Rams.