The NFL completed its first full week of preseason football. Around this time last year, almost everybody was panicking about how there was going to be flags thrown on every other play for illegal helmet hits and hits on the quarterback. As should go without saying, these fears were massively overblown, and the incidence of these calls subsided dramatically once the regular season began for a multitude of reasons.
Many have the same fear when it comes to the big new rule of this past offseason, which allows pass interference penalties to be subject to review—to be negated if it was called on the field, or even to be called upon challenging if no flag was initially thrown.