Late in August, ESPN and the NFL announced that they would be working on introducing pylon cameras to offer additional footage by the goal line. New England Patriots head coach Bill Belichick initially proposed the idea for these cameras, but was shut down on multiple occasions due to questions of funding.
"Maybe we could have a bake sale, raise some money for the cameras. We could do a car wash," Belichick said back in 2014. "We just spent however many million dollars on the replay system. I mean, there's a thousand cameras in every stadium, so if somebody spills a beer on somebody we have it on record, right?