Week 13
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“Because I’m feelin’ it, the ball will be placed at the spot of the foul.”
You could have a buzzer on the ref’s hip or something. If we want the rule to be 40 seconds “give or take,” I guess that’s ok, but if we are settling for that because it’s hard to officiate, we could fix that if we cared to.
Guess those rule changes aren't doing much. More practice time by Olines would probably have a better effect.
Pickett will probably miss some weeks
Kyler missed the first half of the year (though his injury was last season)
We aren’t settling. We’re doing what we’ve always done, because to do otherwise would make the game worse. No one wants more flags. And it would be ironic to delay the game so we can call more delay-of-game penalties.
I’m not swayed. The NFL has taken an objective event and made it subjective (I’m not sure why the NFL needs to worry about how lower levels of football enforce the rule). I think simply enforcing the letter of the law is very low-hanging fruit, to the point that nice, ripe apples are lying all over the ground under the tree.
It’s a nice little distraction, this discussion, until it decides a critical game. It will give the Pat McAfees something to talk about for a couple of days. Then they’ll seek to fix it. That’s how we do it.
I’m just not getting it. I view the play clock as like a shot clock, not just a keep the game moving device.
I’m a soccer fan, so I can live with clocks being advisory. But when you have a clock in U.S. sports, you generally have a clock. I mean I don’t feel strongly, but I like rules. The neighborhood play was always the way it was done, until technology and review made it better.
Again don’t feel strongly and enjoy the discussion.
This is barely related but I have always wondered why you can still score after the clock hits zero in basketball and football but not hockey.
In practice, it will never be called much differently on the field than it is now. Maybe you could make it a point of emphasis to look up quickly when the clock hits zero, but it’s not possible to look at the ball and the play clock simultaneously.
So what we’d really get if you got your way is more replay reviews, and the occasional big play called back because the ball was snapped a quarter-second late. I don’t think that would make the game better.
