From the Broncos site, but I dare say it is on other sites as well.
http://www.denverbroncos.com/news-an...f-a3a14c028843
1) Extending the goal posts upwards
The goal posts will be extended to be five feet taller, making it easier to determine whether kicks split the uprights.
2) Centralized replay system
NFL referees can consult with members of the NFL officiating department during replay reviews wirelessly. This is intended to help with both speed and accuracy of official reviews.
"We expect it to speed up the process and be more efficient for us," NFL Vice President of Officiating Dean Blandino said. "We can communicate with the referee immediately as soon as he’s done making his announcement, we can start that conversation as to what we’re going to look at and what he is going to see. There isn’t that delay of getting over to the monitor, putting the headset on and having a 45 second discussion. We think it will be more efficient, accurate and consistent."
"This is strictly tied to replay reviews," he continued. "The referee is the only official that we can communicate with. We can’t communicate with the other six officials."
As for how the league will handle multiple reviews at the same time?
"There will be a small group; myself, Al Riveron, the senior director of officiating, will have monitors, but there will be a small group of people that will actually be speaking to referees so we can adjudicate multiple reviews that happen at the same time," Blandino explained.
3) Recovery of fumbles in the field of play are now reviewable
This change had been nicknamed the "NaVorrow Bowman Rule" after the play in which he had clearly recovered a fumble in the 2013 NFC Championship Game, but the play wasn't reviewable.
4) Clock won't stop on sacks
5) Dunking the ball over the goalposts as a celebration will be a penalty
"I think the reasoning behind it is disruption of the game and the inability to in some stadiums to be able to correct the goalposts themselves because of the way they are put in," Atlanta Falcons Prsident and CEO and NFL Competition Committee Chairman Rich McKay said. "(In some venues) when you get them off angle, they’re not coming back during that game time, which creates a little bit of a problem of where the kicker is going to kick. When we changed the rules about props way back when we had some issues with some things that were going on on the field and it dealt with sportsmanship, we left a number of things in. We said the ‘Lambeau Leap’ was ok and you can do it because it was a traditional thing. I don’t think we ever contemplated that the goalpost would ever be thrown off kilter in games and there be a 20-minute delay of the game as they try to right them. When you add five feet to the top and make them even heavier, I think we were concerned about how it would impact a game from a competitive standpoint. That’s why the rule modification took place."
The competition committee also made spotsmanship a point of emphasis in 2014.
"We are going to clean the game up on the field between the players," said St. Louis Rams Head Coach and Competition Committee Member Jeff Fisher. "The in-your-face taunting, those types of things. The language, it’s all in the book, it’s all under unsportsmanlike conduct. There is no change in the rule, we are going to enforce the current rule."
"The committee’s position on this, in the past, taunting and sportsmanship is in the back of the book under points of emphasis," Fisher continued. "It is now in the front of the book. It falls in our book right after all the statistical things which were good about our game last year. So it is now a front-of-the-book issue. What we want to do is we want to put it back in the back of the book."
I think change 5 is a bit of a stupid one tbh. What is wrong with that as a celebration?
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