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<blockquote data-quote="HardRightEdge" data-source="post: 809161"><p>I was watching a New Orleans game a couple of weeks back where a receiver took a vicious helmet-to-helmet hit along the sidelines. The end zone replay showed a ref staring right at the play. No flag. And there is no question that the Hunter hit in elcid's post is exactly what the rule was supposed to address. No flag.</p><p></p><p>Conversely, I've seen in recent weeks helmet hits get called where the contact is incidental or actually a shoulder hit. And note Calais Cambell's hit on Roethlisburger that was flagged and fined just a couple of weeks ago in the following link, which would not have been flagged last season:</p><p></p><p><a href="http://www.sportingnews.com/us/nfl/news/nfl-news-jacksonville-jaguars-dl-calais-campbell-is-shocked-by-20k-fine-from-hit-on-pittsburgh-steelers-qb-ben-roethlisberger/er2qg1q18clz19mfou80qq3ne" target="_blank">http://www.sportingnews.com/us/nfl/news/nfl-news-jacksonville-jaguars-dl-calais-campbell-is-shocked-by-20k-fine-from-hit-on-pittsburgh-steelers-qb-ben-roethlisberger/er2qg1q18clz19mfou80qq3ne</a></p><p></p><p>My takeaway is a player can go ahead and bury a QB with full body weight, but if you roll off him right away you might draw the flag or maybe you don't.</p><p></p><p>It seems some officiating crews have their own ideas and the league doesn't do a very good job herding the officiating cats. In a way, this has always been the case. Some crews have always been known to throw a lot of flags while others "let them play". Teams have been scouting officiating crews for years for tendencies. Frankly, I don't see better consistency in calling pass interference than I do in the calls on these new rules. Problem: Flags are not reviewable.</p><p></p><p>I don't see it as the league "lying" about intent so much as having a vague idea of what they want to accomplish which results in a sloppy job in defining the rules and, consequently not drilling the refs with numerous examples of the dos and don'ts the rule is intended to define. The league just doesn't think these things through thoroughly in advance, as we saw when they made a late change to exempt helmet hits in the tackle box, which was kind of a "duh".</p><p></p><p>They don't lie. They muddle.</p><p></p><p>How much dumb stuff went into the catch rules over years before, finally, they've gotten it close to right. Muddling.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="HardRightEdge, post: 809161"] I was watching a New Orleans game a couple of weeks back where a receiver took a vicious helmet-to-helmet hit along the sidelines. The end zone replay showed a ref staring right at the play. No flag. And there is no question that the Hunter hit in elcid's post is exactly what the rule was supposed to address. No flag. Conversely, I've seen in recent weeks helmet hits get called where the contact is incidental or actually a shoulder hit. And note Calais Cambell's hit on Roethlisburger that was flagged and fined just a couple of weeks ago in the following link, which would not have been flagged last season: [URL]http://www.sportingnews.com/us/nfl/news/nfl-news-jacksonville-jaguars-dl-calais-campbell-is-shocked-by-20k-fine-from-hit-on-pittsburgh-steelers-qb-ben-roethlisberger/er2qg1q18clz19mfou80qq3ne[/URL] My takeaway is a player can go ahead and bury a QB with full body weight, but if you roll off him right away you might draw the flag or maybe you don't. It seems some officiating crews have their own ideas and the league doesn't do a very good job herding the officiating cats. In a way, this has always been the case. Some crews have always been known to throw a lot of flags while others "let them play". Teams have been scouting officiating crews for years for tendencies. Frankly, I don't see better consistency in calling pass interference than I do in the calls on these new rules. Problem: Flags are not reviewable. I don't see it as the league "lying" about intent so much as having a vague idea of what they want to accomplish which results in a sloppy job in defining the rules and, consequently not drilling the refs with numerous examples of the dos and don'ts the rule is intended to define. The league just doesn't think these things through thoroughly in advance, as we saw when they made a late change to exempt helmet hits in the tackle box, which was kind of a "duh". They don't lie. They muddle. How much dumb stuff went into the catch rules over years before, finally, they've gotten it close to right. Muddling. [/QUOTE]
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