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<blockquote data-quote="Magooch" data-source="post: 1082562" data-attributes="member: 17987"><p>Micah Parsons leads the league in pressures this year, and to my knowledge has not had one SINGLE holding call against him accepted yet this season.</p><p></p><p>(He did actually manage to get a call a week or two ago... but he still got the sack, so it was declined.) </p><p></p><p>This is of course basically an impossibility, statistically speaking</p><p></p><p>I do think there is some truth to the "tolerance" theory. On the flip side of the ball it immediately calls to mind Seattle's Legion of Boom defenses. They would play ultra-physical and basically hold (or interfere/illegal contact) on virtually every play. They understood that A.) the refs wouldn't call everything and would start to get a bit desensitized; B.) the refs wouldn't feel "right" having such a huge discrepancy in penalties against one team, even if called accurately; and C.) the league doesn't want to have to stop the game after every passing down and fans don't want that either. </p><p></p><p>Same thing you see (saw?) with Philly on their t*sh push. Their OL lines up ahead of the ball and false starts every single time, but they know it's not gonna get called every time so they keep it up. Now of course in both of those examples it's players intentionally taking advantage of the referees' hesitation to go flag-crazy and using that to their advantage. with Parsons, I dunno if opposing OL players are banking on that as well (and holding him intentionally because they know it won't get called every time), or if it's just a natural reaction, but either way - yeah, I think refs have basically gone blind to it</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Magooch, post: 1082562, member: 17987"] Micah Parsons leads the league in pressures this year, and to my knowledge has not had one SINGLE holding call against him accepted yet this season. (He did actually manage to get a call a week or two ago... but he still got the sack, so it was declined.) This is of course basically an impossibility, statistically speaking I do think there is some truth to the "tolerance" theory. On the flip side of the ball it immediately calls to mind Seattle's Legion of Boom defenses. They would play ultra-physical and basically hold (or interfere/illegal contact) on virtually every play. They understood that A.) the refs wouldn't call everything and would start to get a bit desensitized; B.) the refs wouldn't feel "right" having such a huge discrepancy in penalties against one team, even if called accurately; and C.) the league doesn't want to have to stop the game after every passing down and fans don't want that either. Same thing you see (saw?) with Philly on their t*sh push. Their OL lines up ahead of the ball and false starts every single time, but they know it's not gonna get called every time so they keep it up. Now of course in both of those examples it's players intentionally taking advantage of the referees' hesitation to go flag-crazy and using that to their advantage. with Parsons, I dunno if opposing OL players are banking on that as well (and holding him intentionally because they know it won't get called every time), or if it's just a natural reaction, but either way - yeah, I think refs have basically gone blind to it [/QUOTE]
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