Fans can also expect a change in how replays and coach-called challenges are handled.
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National Football League owners approved a rule that bans players from leaping over offensive players to blocks field goal and extra points attempts. The play is now illegal in 2017.
The resolution change allows teams to grant permission for some employees to be interviewed by other teams during the regular season.
It is reflected in potentially cutting back overtime to 10 minutes from 15 (though that is being couched as a health-and-safety issue, as well) and in the movement to centralize instant replay from the command center at the National Football League offices in New York City. That one was just plain dumb. The proposal is on the table again and it just makes so much sense.
After a one-year trial basis, the rule ejecting a player for receiving two certain unsportsmanlike conduction penalties was made permanent.
Now this play will be a penalty.
By Competition Committee: Extend defenseless receiver protection to players during routes.
Teams can no longer purposely hold other teams or make attempts at conserving time after the two-minute warning other than calling timeouts.
Leaping is called when any defender runs forward and leaps, attempting to block a field goal or extra point, and lands on any player from the opposing team.
In the bylaw changes, the testing of prospects is created to make it more uniform across the league as to what determines a “local” prospect and when/how testing, timing, and physicals may be conducted by the teams. That rule was introduced as a player-safety matter, due to the risk of injury to a lineman who is landed on by the leaping player while still coming out of his crouch.
The leaper rule was a slam dunk, and passed unanimously.
Sorry ladies and gentlemen.
“I’m sure I’ll talk to the league and we’ll get some kind of explanation that is all [expletive], like normal”, Arians said following the game.
“It’s better when you get the opportunity to take a player to dinner, get extra time with him”, Jackson said Tuesday. Evidence of this? No. Evidence of literally every offensive and defensive snap being risky for players short and long-term health?
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– New England Patriots owner Robert Kraft has it on good authority that quarterback Tom Brady is planning to play until his mid-40s. Not to take anything away from New England – what an incredible game and awesome outcome.
