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NFL Still Open To Adding ‘Sky Judge’ Official But ‘The Devil Is In The Details’

While I am on board with rule changes that allow egregious errors in officiating penalties to be amended and corrected, one thing that I would like to see happen that I believe will go a long way toward correcting that on the fly is the addition of an eighth official to each crew whose presence is in a booth rather than on the field.

This ‘sky judge’, as it has been called, would have real-time access to video, including all the technology that comes with it, and would have the opportunity to, within a timely fashion, assist the on-field officiating crew in getting the calls right without the need for a formal review process.