NFL Is FINALLY Planning On Removing Sideline Chains, Will Electronically Track Measurements

we're losing something from the game that I think we're all pumped about inevitably pumped excited it's a bot time some people say sure but what makes football football are the little Minor Details that you can only see in football games and we made it to an Era where the internet and apps were streaming NFL games to the tune of like 20 million people on Thursday nights and in the first game of the streaming era during that game the most Antiquated archaic thing that football has made an appearance true and that's Chang gang ever since you're a little kid playing little youth football parents are putting on pennies and dragging these things around and whenever you put them on top of each other the chains would get all intertwined and you had to have a Terren Howard like brain to get it undone and if there was a little bit of one is now first down n and2 yards or is it 10 yards now we need those chain links absolutely separated and then as you get into High School obviously those are those are refs and they bouncing around you get to know these people they're part of the you get to College holy hell bring it out for a measurement these guys are out in the middle of 100,000 people in college and then in the NFL you're talking about jobs and billions of dollars and futures of cities and families on the line from these 97 year old men coming out with these chains and measuring them we all remember the greatest moment that has ever happened with a chain uh gang came with pison from Pittsburgh Jean stator's usage of an index card because although the chains were certainly efficient because I'll tell you what those chains were 10 yards exactly pole to pole every single time but every once in a while the eyeballs weren't as good as the Chain Gang and he had to figure it out what is the chains what's it saying get away get away Jean terator is trying to eyeball this thing he says you know what boys I don't think our eyes are going to have to be able to do it we're going to have to feel this one let going grab an index car you want to see it you is that what you said Dak look at it you're right that is excuse me excuse me yep I did that [ __ ] first down 1717 in the fourth quarter man AJ they're eliminating those lasers in the ball sensors in the ball is going to be tested during the preseason and inevitably get implicated into the regular season like we all thought but it was a hell of a run those chains had AJ and I know you would have something very special to say as a guy who obviously loves the football well how many how many players have been injured over the years because the poor Chain Gang guy isn't paying attention and someone's coming flying in the sidelines and they don't drop it and all of a sudden their legs snaps on one of these polls like that's one of the things I think is great that will possibly get out of the football game y now see I thought you were maybe going to pay tribute to the chains but instead you added another problem that these yes older folks I hate watching games when that continues to happen like watch the game if you're holding if you're part of the Chain Gang you need to be watching at all times you better there's a lot of pride in a lot of the guys and girls that are holding those chains but there are some people who get a little bit too comfortable oh no here's a little bit of a oh no first downs eight yards I guess tonight boys yep how come well we got this thing all tangled up you know how Logistics go Fred put this thing in his truck we didn't have gas we had to change it and all of a sudden they wrapped it up they thought this was smart everybody's smart as personal ours huh that's that's the full conversation that's happening here and now with the evolution of Technology we'll be using sensors inside the ball to stay exactly where we are everybody's assuming that it's going to like tennis but if you listen to some tennis players tennis players will say oh is that right is that what it said cuz my eyes literally just saw that it wasn't out but the sensor is telling me it's in this is going to lead to even more conversation and no matter how far here's the first one ever obviously here and uh these are first guys ever that uh created the guy in the middle the guy in the middle actually created the the hand swipe to change the Downs is that Joe denardo's dad so the down Mark still be there yeah what's it going to look like Frank Frank ferco I hate this I don't like this either I hate it I mean this but will they be there though so we can at least can people look at it they should still be there right like cuz obviously it's a lot a lot of the technology is we going know what down it is ball to ear so like mascots like who announces what down and what the distance is do the do the refs know or is it just they're going have to have the number at the at least at the line of scrimmage right they're going to have to have J be a backup if this is a success that says what about the drama okay like when Jean pulling that index the players when you on there trying to get a peak you see it and you get that it's true though for T out there say if it's 39 how do you sit at the stick now I'm over here thinking trying to count every line got to be there got to have be there as a backup well they have cuz they'll have to have something that is with the right they just won't come out and measure with the chains but they still should be there on the sideline I think so people still get hurt I guess by the guy's not paying attention part gay so we're not going to fix the injury part of it what did Bill and Raj Bill and Raj uh were talking I don't know if it was dor there sit down with the car or uh some other time but I guess Bill bich has been pitching for like 20 years we need a camera on the first down line was sit down we need a camera on the end zone and we need a camera down each sideline in every game if you want to use it fine for TV if not we don't care this is what needs to happen and put it in a place where it can't get blocked by a wide receiver or a corner or a tight end or anybody on the outside like we just need I think that is the answer like it and then you can have the humans that are still I don't I'm going to go against what everybody's saying here and I appreciate the football purism that's taken place I'm 100% okay with us not trotting that [ __ ] thing out there no doubt ever again I'm I'm very okay with that I I just I'm bummed out that football's losing a part of football lore but this is only going to add even more questions because as soon as I I read that it was sensors I'm like oh so who's telling the who's who's telling the sensors who's telling the who's tell going to fail at some point technology fails and they're going to have to go to the backup and we're going to have a chain gang crew you know Trot out there and they're not used to doing it anymore too because they've been taking it easy if they're trusting the science I guess or the technology so far and with the scripted conversation what about the most important the Chiefs are going to pick up a Chiefs are going to pick up a fourth and five with a three yard gain and people are going to be very confused yep and everybody's going to go crazy and P I didn't tell them to do it why you hate me don't hate me you would have take it from first down think what do you want from me sensor laser you smarter than that you Terence Howard that's what patch what about the most important first down they're going to use it on the goal line yeah what about a fumble we're going to if the ball crosses they'll take it back to where the fumble was probably so I think that is a part of like uh the the data that it's able to create is where it was potentially lost because a ball that is fumbled forward obviously is supposed to go back to where the ball was initially fumbled I would assume that particular data is also there as well to be shared so let's just assume that technology is really going to enhance the game here everything's going to happen much quicker yeah like in the ear yep first down we don't need the whole song and dance commercial break Trot out do the thing now if it's going to be Jean territory with the index card every time I'm in okay if it's going to be a cuso whenever we're trying to get this thing sweet but whenever it's always a bicker and then we can't figure out and then we got to reset it on the sideline got to reset the thing that's a 5 yard uh where the 5 yard Mark it's like us losing that I'm okay with but the first time there is a questionable anything it's going to get so loud and anfo knows that this is the world that we're living in right now and they also obviously think that this is ready to go and it is going to enhance the game because they wouldn't be implementing it in the preseason and then if it works moving right into the regular season to be like hey we'll try this in the reg in the preseason this year fix it a little bit and then maybe in 2025 we'll consider adding it to the the regular season like if this works in the preseason we're going to be seeing this all season long right away so I think in 2014 I made uh voted in the first Pro Bowl the I think it was 2014 boy they all kind of blend together there I think it's 2014 at the Pro Bowl they had balls with sensors inside of it that we were punting and they were talking about it and what it was going to be and I was like oh that's so genius I could feel it whenever I was P like my foot could feel the sensor inside of the ball because when you're punting a ball you know you're compacting that thing all the way down so you you feel everything which is why punters like the ball harder like kickers have strong like it harder because then it's more difficult to compress and then that thing is expion that thing's going further you know what I mean so you like the ball harder if you have a stronger leg and everything like that but I could I I thought now granted that could be my head just making something up but like I could feel a little something in inside of the bladder of the ball and but now with how much they've advanced IT Shawn pyton told us yeah at Radio row Super Bowl basically like oh yeah I've been working with this company they've been doing this for like 5 years six years of data they got to figure it out pretty much is what he told us for it all and I think that's why it probably got you know expedited a little bit here preseason right in the regular season yeah 10 years I mean I think he said it's like the the chip that they have now is like a little bit bigger than like a grain of rice whereas like in 2014 it was probably like the size of like the tag on a t-shirt or something like that like I assume that it is small enough now where you can't notice it quarterbacks can't notice any difference in the weight kickers punters can't notice any difference in the weight at least you'd think that it would be like that because otherwise I assume they're not going to be in it have to be in K I guess for Touchback yeah yeah didn't you say they've had them for a while though haven't they they've had these chips in the balls Sean Payton said that to us at the radio row like very you punted a recent you haven't punted like an updated football no not recently to be clear I don't think I could compress that thing isn't that how they use nextg stats for Amazon maybe yeah I think that's how they had all like the route combinations and like different stuff that you can watch in the Amazon copy like the separate thing I think it's because there's something in the ball too we got sensors on the P we've had that for a little while well uh the Soviet uh what they put him in the back they got commies in the pads I I don't know where they're this this is what our strength coach introduced us to these things as he literally stood in front of the room and he said got this Soviet technology that you guys are going to put on to your warmup stuff everybody in the room was like Soviet where what [ __ ] years this guy live in a Soviet it was the but now everybody the C it was C how far you run how sports bra you know you see the guys run a little Sports braw on the field and people wonder what it is yeah every sport every person's doing that can we get a you know an armband or like a maybe a fanny pack put on there a hat a sweet hat you should wear in here every day see who's right yeah see movement I lost it I've told the story before about when I lost my catapult privileges uh yeah when I had it on my shirt you're moving though training camp hopped into a side by side on the other field was rolling that son of a [ __ ] downwind downhill and uh they had to report that I was the fastest player on the field that day 25 I think or 24 miles an hour and you were moving moving couldn't even feel the next day I didn't hamstring was great been even and he said all right does this guy need to have one thank you

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Length: 11min 29sec (689 seconds)

Published: Wed May 22 2024