The NFL is setting up for a major change ahead of the 2025 season. While meeting with reporters at the 2025 NFL scouting combine, executive vice president of football operations Troy Vincent announced that starting next season,

The NFL has officially confirmed a significant change after widespread complaints from Josh Allen and the Buffalo Bills regarding referees' supposedly helping the Kansas City Chiefs during the playoffs.

"It's being able to sit down across from the player face to face and be able to hear their story, hear their background, their upbringing, but also getting to feel their energy," Ryans said. "Feel their passion and love for the game of football. It comes off in those 15-minute interviews and I can feel that energy very instantly."

The league is set to overhaul its replay system after criticism in 2024, one of several changes under discussion this offseason.

NFL referees are set to be replaced by cutting-edge technology which is set to go on trial next season following officiating complaints.

While discussions of the use of this type of technology have been ongoing for years, a line is naturally going to be drawn between this rule and a Josh Allen fourth-down quarterback sneak that was ruled short of the line to gain in the fourth quarter of the Bills’ AFC Championship loss to the Chiefs.