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Re: You make the call: Pollard v. Ridley, 2013 rules
Pollard is in big trouble where ever he plays next year. He has a knack for launching at people with his head first.
And perhaps this is a good reason NOT to bring Reed back.
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Re: You make the call: Pollard v. Ridley, 2013 rules
He's right. Originally it was just scoring plays that were given automatic reviews. But prior to this past season they voted to also include any turnover as automatically reviewable.
For me its moot in this case because it was too close to overturn that call either way. I believe whatever was called on the field would have stood even with the review.
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Re: You make the call: Pollard v. Ridley, 2013 rules
this link has a nice summary of the rule changes: http://sports.yahoo.com/blogs/nfl-sh...5532--nfl.html
It is a foul if a runner or tackler initiates forcible contact by delivering a blow with the top/crown of his helmet against an opponent when both players are clearly outside the tackle box (an area extending from tackle to tackle and from three yards beyond the line of scrimmage to the offensive team’s end line). Incidental contact by the helmet of a runner or tackler against an opponent shall not be a foul
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Re: You make the call: Pollard v. Ridley, 2013 rules
Me too. Which is why I posted the example with Ridley and Pollard. Would you say Ridley is in the open field? He's past the line of scrimmage, at the second level, getting hit by the safety, the position so-named because he is the last line of defense. So, is this in the open field? Is Ridley intentionally delivering a blow with the crown of his helmet?
Very ambiguous, I'd say.
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Re: You make the call: Pollard v. Ridley, 2013 rules
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03-20-2013, 03:41 PM #42Pro Bowl Poster
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Re: You make the call: Pollard v. Ridley, 2013 rules
I don't necessarily agree with the rule change, but this argument against making changes doesn't really work because it's obviously self-perpetuating. That is: you never change because the current crop of players has always done thing one (wrong) way...which means that every other generation to come along learns it the wrong way too and, hey, can't change it then either.
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03-20-2013, 03:44 PM #43Regular 1st Stringer
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Re: You make the call: Pollard v. Ridley, 2013 rules
For perspective, Andrew Siciliano on NFL Network reported that the NFL coaches were informed that, in the committee's opinion, in week 17 of the 2012 season there were only "5 or 6" cases where a penalty flag should have been thrown on a running back for leading with the helmet.
It sounds to me like this penalty is only intended to be used rarely (but, effectively, we're all speculating until week 1 of next year).
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Re: You make the call: Pollard v. Ridley, 2013 rules
That doesn't seem like a rare happenstance. That implies it's going to get called in 75% of the games, week-in-week-out. That's just one more annoying, game-stopping, controversial penalty on top of all the other ones we have to endure each week. If this was the only bad rule we'd have to endure, okay, but to my way of thinking it just adds to the three or four frustrating stoppages every week.
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03-20-2013, 03:59 PM #45Pro Bowl Poster
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03-20-2013, 04:15 PM #47Regular 1st Stringer
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