The officiating hasn’t been quite as bad as when the replacement officials had control, but it certainly hasn’t been good this season.

Officials in a number of games botched calls over the weekend, including crucial errors that helped decide both the Eagles-Cardinals game and Giants-Redskins game on Sunday. The mistakes have led TV broadcasts to keep a more keen eye on some of the calls on the field and more emphasis put on gaffes.

The Patriots have fallen victim to a few missed calls and phantom penalties on the year, which caused Bill Belichick to finally take a stand on the issue on Tuesday. Belichick was asked about some of the poor officiating and the review system as a whole during his weekly conference call on Tuesday, and the legendary coach had some interesting thoughts on the issue.

Belichick focused on the idea of upholding the integrity of the game by trying to have every game officiated both effectively and correctly, which included calling for coaches to have the authority to challenge any call on the field, including penalties.

“When you have two challenges, I don’t see anything wrong with the concept of ‘you can challenge any two plays that you want,’” Belichick said. “I understand that judgment calls are judgment calls, but to say that an important play can’t be reviewed, I don’t think that’s really in the spirit of trying to get everything right and making sure the most important plays are officiated properly.”

Belichick even offered up a specific examples of offside and holding penalties to explain how adjusting the challenge rules to include penalties would benefit both the teams playing and the game.