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(AP) — wering his head to initially make any sort of hit with his helmet likely will be included in replay reviews for officials.That has not been decided yet, but Commissioner Roger Goodell and competition committee chairman Rich McKay made it clear Wednesday that video reviews probably will be part of the process.“If we’re able to have replay confirm one of these fouls and also confirms a player be ejected,” Goodell said as the league meetings concluded, “I think there is more confidence among the coaches it will be called accurately.”After noting the unanimous approval of the new rule among coaches, Goodell said on-field officials felt the same way.“We think that is appropriate to do and it would be the first time we use replay for safety or in respect to any kind of foul,” Goodell added.Late Tuesday, the owners rewrote the rule on using the helmet, making it a 15-yard penalty for any player to lower his head to initiate any hit with the helmet. McKay called it “a significant change,” noting that it was a “technique too dangerous for the player doing it and the player being hit.”While the offender could be disqualified, owners did not call for an automatic ejection on such a play — at least not yet. In college football, when a player is penalized for targeting and a replay review affirms it, he is ejected.Including replay will be discussed and very possibly implemented at the NFL’s May meetings in Atlanta, where another full agenda will include discussions of changes to the league’s national anthem policy; the potential sale of the Carolina Panthers; and awarding the 2019 and 2020 drafts to two of the five finalist cities.Before then Stitched Myles Gaskin Jersey , Goodell stressed that the workings of the new helmet use rule will be made clear to the players.“Our intent is to go to each team with tape and all the analysis work done (by the football operations, technology and medical staffs) and be able to present it to them,” Goodell said. “We can take the head out, and we do want to make sure certain techniques are not used in our game.”Like the coaches, the owners were emphatically behind the change.“We’ve done so much research and investigation on what creates the real concussive plays in the NFL,” Eagles owner Jeff Lurie said, “and it became obvious that so many of the plays are through the lowering of the helmet and using the helmet as a weapon. I thought this (rule) was very important.”Earlier, owners passed two more rules changes.Most noteworthy, the league eliminated the requirement that a team that scores a winning touchdown at the end of regulation kick the extra point or go for a 2-point conversion.In a January playoff game that Minnesota memorably won on a final pass play, New Orleans players were required to return to the field after leaving for a meaningless extra point. The Vikings took a knee.Of course, bettors and fantasy players could have a stake in the PAT, but neither participating team did, particularly now that points scored or points differential is so low in any tiebreaking procedures.The owners also approved closing an overtime loophole that could have been embarrassing had it ever occurred.Now Xavien Howard Jersey , if the team that gets the ball first scores a field goal, then the opponent loses possession by an interception or fumble on its first series, the down will be permitted to run to its conclusion, including awarding points scored by either team during the down.Previously, the turnover ended the game regardless — even though the team getting the takeaway conceivably could itself turn over the ball on that play and see it returned for a score by the opponent.Got it?Dolphins Are Suddenly Stacked At The Offensive Skill Positions As the Miami Dolphins’ roster continues to transition and evolve, the team now finds itself in somewhat of a quandary: what to do with all of the talented backs and receivers they find themselves with. Simple arithmetic would indicate that they can’t possibly keep all of them on the 53 man roster in September, yet many of them would also surely be poached by other teams if they ended up on the practice squad. Just looking at the running back position, once you get past the top two guys, Drake and Gore, you’ve still got Senorise Perry, Buddy Howell and fourth round rookie Kalen Ballage, all of whom have performed well thus far, plus unheralded youngster Brandon Radcliff. The Dolphins have assembled a versatile group of players Myles Gaskin Jersey nfl draft , all of whom seem capable in both receiving and blitz pickup. The folks who claim that the preseason should be reduced to two games have obviously never had to deal with having so much young talent to evaluate in such a short period of time. Miami’s receiving corps has often been criticized in recent years as not being up to NFL caliber; my main beef with the unit has mostly been that the team has expended far too much draft capital in it. No other NFL team has ever used a first, a second and three thirds on WR’s in a three year period. Of the draft picks used in that orgiastic spree, former second rounder Jarvis Landry has already left town and 2015 first rounder DeVante Parker doesn’t look to be far behind him, unless the Fins’ front office can ink him to a relatively cheap contract extension. 2016 draft pick Leonte Carroo, who cost Miami two thirds and a fourth, is going to need a small miracle to even be considered for one of the final WR spots on the team at this point. I took some heat on here for my bitter criticism of the Carroo pick, in particular, but my philosophy is very simple: I want the players my favorite team selects in the draft to either be good enough to justify where they were picked or bad enough to justify my anger at where they were picked.That’s the bad news; the good news is that the Dolphins now have a veritable arsenal of players at the position who could probably make a lot of teams. Once you get past the ‘big four’ of Kenny Stills, Albert Wilson, Danny Amendola and Parker, you’ve got the speedy Jakeem Grant, underrated dark horse Isaiah Ford, who looked more like a Ferrari against Tampa Bay Kenyan Drake Jersey , Drew Morgan, Rashawn Scott and Francis Owusu. Owusu is listed at 6’3”, 223 and looked like a keeper against the Bucs. The rap world has ‘Lil Boosie’; perhaps in the regular season, the Dolphins will have ‘Big Woosie’.All of this bodes well for Miami as they prepare for the season opener in a few weeks, and should cost the bookmakers in Vegas quite a bit of money, if they don’t change their over/under for the Dolphins’ projected win total. If the team’s defense and offensive line can improve on last season’s performance, which isn’t asking a whole lot, if we think about it, this team is going to surprise some people. It’s an exciting time to be a Dolphin fan.