Packers CEO Says NFL is Going to Consider Changes to Pass Interference Rule

In March, the NFL announced changes to the rule book for the upcoming NFL season, which was highlighted in large part by the new pass interference rule, allowing the previously-befuddling penalties to be reviewable.

This rule was pushed because of the obvious missed pass interference call on the Los Angeles Rams that gifted them a Super Bowl berth, after they went on to defeat the Saints in the NFC Championship.

Just as it arrived, it seems that new rule may be undergoing some changes in the near future, according to an NFL CEO.

On Tuesday, Mark Murphy, the CEO of the Green Bay Packers and Competition Committee member, confirmed that league will consider tweaking the new rule, which would change it from being automatically reviewed to being limited to a coach's challenge and booth-initiated reviews.

The new adjustments to the rule will change the amount of reviews that can be automatically initiated. The rule will not change reviews that come from the booth, but will now require a coach's challenge for them to be initiated otherwise. This will limit the amount of challenges, because not only will it prevent reviewing every pass, but it will hold the coaches to two challenges per game, with a chance at obtaining a third, if the previous two go in their favor.

The push for a change to the rule all came from the infamous non-call on Nickell Robey-Coleman for interfering with Tommylee Lewis late in the fourth quarter of the NFC Championship Game.

The reactionary rule book alterations aren't perfect, it would seem. But we're certainly on our way.