Welcome to Bad Takes Week, where MMQB staffers have been asked to expand upon some of their worst football takes. These are columns on the ideas they believe in strongly, even if it makes the rest of the room groan during our pitch meetings. Keep an eye out for more of these throughout the week.
Twenty years ago, as the NFL was preparing to reintroduce video replay in officiating after its first failed attempt, I wrote that it was a bad idea. The intervening two decades have only hardened my stance. Video replay, taken as a whole, has been bad for the NFL.