“The membership really has to decide what they want that standard to be,” Vincent said on Wednesday. “That is do you want some of those things that are subjective, objective, do you want to include those? That’s why you always hear us say ‘crawl, walk, jog.’ … This year the facemask seemed like the obvious; that keeps showing up. A few years past it was maybe the roughing the passer, the low contact.
“That appetite will have to come from the membership. The committee will discuss where we as a unit feel like we can assist. What is that appetite? This year we started off just with hits to that head and neck area. I think we’ve been pretty good with that. Now you may expand to the facemask and you leave the lower extremity alone. That will have to come from the membership.”
While he did not discuss the potential for facemask penalties to be reviewable, NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell told reporters that replay assistance was discussed in detail during Wednesday’s meetings.
“We’re looking to expand that,” Goodell said. “We’re going to go to the committee with ways that we can do that. Fouls that may not be within their authority today, we hope they’ll be in their authority by next season.”
In addition, Vincent cited hits on a defenseless player, tripping, the fair catch, an illegal batted ball, an illegal double-team block, illegal formations on kickoffs and taunting as other areas that warrant consideration for replay assist.