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NFL - Instant Replay for Pass Interference
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- Title
- Expanded replay and no more blindside blocks: The NFL's new rule changes
- Authors
- Kevin Seifert
- Published
- Mar 27 2019
- Word count
- 1248 words
unfortunate, because this would have been extremely funny to see this in action in something a little bit larger than the AAF.
I'm not very well versed in american football so can you explain why this is illegal now. As far as my knowledge of the rules go, you're allowed to do whatever play you want with the ball right? What changes when you're on your fourth down or when you're inside the 35 yard as of right now.
This is, or was, a proposed rule change to the kickoff, which takes place at the opening of the first and third quarters and after a team scores. During the kickoff, once the ball travels ten yards, the kicking team can recover the ball and keep possession. An onside kick is a play designed specifically for the kicking team to recover the ball. This almost always takes place at the end of the game when the kicking team is losing and does not have time to stop the opposing offense (but on rare occasions it will happen at a random point - the most famous example being the New Orleans Saits' successful onside kick to start the third quarter of the 2010 Super Bowl). It has always been a very difficult play, but recent saftey changes to the rules have made it almost impossible.
I believe you are confusing this with a punt, which a team can elect to do at any point when they have posession of the ball. A punt will usually take place on fourth down when the team is outside scoring range and doesn't want to risk giving the opponent good field position.
Hope that helps!
Yes! You're right I did in fact have it confused with a punt, thanks for clearing it up.
I see, thanks for clearing that. As a rugby player myself it's actually very interesting to see how even if they're very different sports some strategies remain the same. For example just last weekend my team tried an onside kick (mainly because the other team had poor fitness though).
Yeah, I would have liked to see this, too. It will probably become a rule eventully.
There are also a number of other changes to the rules, including making the new kickoff rules permanent and not allowing blindside blocks.
Still no fix to the stupid overtime rules though. Why is it so hard for them to simply adopt the NCAA overtime? It is superior in every conceivable way.
Finally! Hopefully this will expand to other penalties in the future. The rule changes over the past 5-10 years gave so much more pressure and responsibility to the officials that it felt like they had as much influence on the outcome as an NBA official does in basketball.
Somewhat unrelated, but I really hope they make significant changes to illegal contact rules in the future. Long live the defensive struggle!
The point is to avoid and be able to correct obvious mistakes, which have and still do happen. Refs are human and the game at field level happens extremely fast.
I'm not saying I agree with it, but it's purely reactionary. A 'bad' call changes the outcome of an important game, and they change the rule to allow more scrutiny of the play after the fact. Of course 'bad' is subjective, but you have to have rules to have a sport. The NFL uses a team in NY to review critical plays, so it's not up to one person; instead a consensus is reached.
I think this is a really good rule change but with the downside of making cornerback an even harder position to play. I guess a lot of it will come down to how the application of replay on DPI is applied but there's no way this isn't going to make defending receivers even harder than it already is.