Rapoport doesn’t state why the competition committee is uninterested in addressing the rule, though Dean Blandino, the NFL’s head of officials, has in the past expressed his support for the current iteration of the rule.
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New England Patriots coach Bill Belichick is on record as wanting all plays to be challenged. The Baltimore Ravens are among those lobbying for teams to have three challenges. If the proposal was in place for this past season, only two players would have been ejected, according to ESPN.
The Washington Redskins also proposed an expansion of replay to include having personal fouls subject to review.
This proposal will require support from a minimum of 24 team owners to be approved. “(There are instances where) people just grazed a facemask, but we’d call it a foul … would we want that to be an ejection?”
By Competition Committee; Disqualifies a player who is penalized twice in one game for certain types of unsportsmanlike conduct fouls. 5.
Among the rules owners will vote on next week are eliminating all forms of the chop block, moving touchbacks on kickoffs to the 25-yard line and expanding instant replay. Additionally, continuing to allow the defense to score on these plays.
– Making all chop blocks illegal. It should, because that’s exactly what Denver Broncos quarterback Peyton Manning did in last year’s Divisional Round playoff win over the Steelers.
This rule was implemented for the 2015 season, and the suggestion is to make it permanent.
FInally, a rule proposal by Washington has already gained a lot of support, and that is to eliminate overtime periods during preseason games.
-Permitting the offensive and defensive play callers on the coaching staffs to use the coach-to-player communication system regardless of whether they are on the field or in the coaches’ booth.
Vincent said that the National Football League would try to better educate fans, media and players on the rule this year.
“We must have watched over a hundred clips going back to the Bert Emanuel days to the infamous Dez Bryant (play)”, Vincent said. And the safety element, which is extremely important to us.
“We have looked at the play, we have looked at the rule and I think there will be some discussion of it in the report – it’s not a rule proposal”, McKay said.
With that much passing in the game, McKay said the fact that only four to six catches a year come into question is another reason to leave the catch rules as is. “We asked officials which rule became the most hard in enforcing and this was always at the top”.
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He shared more statistical nuggets from the ’15 season: the average margin of victory was 11.06 points per game, the lowest since 1995, with home teams winning only a little more than 53 percent of the time; records were set for average yards from scrimmage (705), passing yards (487), and completion percentage (63), and points per game (45.6) were the fifth-highest of all time. “But in reality that on-field official is officiating an terrible lot of passes every game and getting them right”.
