We will not apply a different standard when reviewing that play in replay as opposed to how it’s officiated and what is allowable on the field. We got input from the coaches, the General Managers, presidents, players, legends, officials, what we came back with on the final way of how we’re going to write this rule, we simply put in there that if that play goes to replay by either a coach’s challenge or it’s stopped inside of two minutes, it will be reviewed in replay under the same philosophies that is being allowed to be played on the field. “Everyone understands what the philosophy on that is. “For the Hail Mary, there’s a lot of things that could happen that’s allowed that everyone knows when there’s Hail Mary for example there’s some contact allowed that generally would not be allowed when it’s just one receiver and one defensive back on a normal pass play situation,” Riveron explained. Second, the same uncodified standard for spotting pass interference in a Hail Mary setting will apply to replay review of pass interference calls and non-calls on Hail Mary plays. First, a different standard for determining pass interference applies to Hail Mary plays, even though the rules don’t provide for or allow it. of football operation Al Riveron made abundantly clear two things about the Hail Mary play. But that doesn’t stop the NFL from applying a different standard to those plays that are unmistakably characterized as a wing and a pray and a deep, high throw aimed at picking up a large chunk of yardage quickly.Ī Wednesday interview with NFL senior V.P. The official NFL rule book never uses the phrase “Hail Mary.” It doesn’t create a separate pass interference rule for the Hail Mary play.
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