The NFL's Competition Committee is discussing whether to make referees full-time employees and how to centralize the replay review system.

There is believed to be increased support for both ideas.

The full-time referees would be gradually phased in, to give current referees the opportunity to either exit their current careers or to leave the officiating ranks.

There is also increasing support for centralized review, which would presumably be operated out of the league's officiating headquarters in New York.