{"id":850945,"date":"2026-08-11T02:50:18","date_gmt":"2026-08-11T02:50:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/850945\/"},"modified":"2026-08-11T02:50:18","modified_gmt":"2026-08-11T02:50:18","slug":"nfl-to-allow-head-coachs-designee-to-throw-challenge-flag-nbc-5-dallas-fort-worth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/850945\/","title":{"rendered":"NFL to allow head coach\u2019s designee to throw challenge flag \u2013 NBC 5 Dallas-Fort Worth"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nbcdfw.com\/tag\/nfl\/\" data-type=\"post_tag\" data-id=\"1189\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">NFL<\/a>\u00a0head coaches will now be able to designate an assistant to handle the task of throwing the red flag to challenge a call through instant replay.<\/p>\n<p>Since the current instant replay rule was put in place in 1999, only the head coach was allowed to throw the flag to challenge a disputed call. But the league tweaked the language in Rule 15 Section 1 of the rule book for this season, allowing that task to be delegated.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe head coach or head coach\u2019s pregame challenge designee can initiate a challenge by throwing a red flag onto the field of play before the next legal snap or kick,\u201d the rule book says in Article 1 (a).<\/p>\n<p>If a head coach wants to give up those duties, he will have to let the officiating crew know before the game.<\/p>\n<p>The decision to throw the flag is typically made in consultation with staff in the coaches booth with the head coach having final say. That won&#8217;t likely change even if the task of throwing the flag might be delegated.<\/p>\n<p>Teams are granted two challenges per game and can get a third if one of the first two leads to an overturn. Replay can be used in several scenarios, including possession, whether the ball or a player touched the ground, whether a player was inbounds, whether a player gained a first down, or how many players were on the field.<\/p>\n<p>Any scoring play, turnover, failed fourth down, possession after a kick or disqualification are automatically reviewed and can&#8217;t be challenged by teams.<\/p>\n<p>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tThe NFL season will kick off with a Super Bowl rematch between the Seattle Seahawks and New England Patriots. Which others games are going to be appointment viewing?\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"NFL\u00a0head coaches will now be able to designate an assistant to handle the task of throwing the red&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":850946,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[559],"tags":[64,63,593,85],"class_list":["post-850945","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nfl","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-nfl","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/850945","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=850945"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/850945\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/850946"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=850945"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=850945"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=850945"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}