If you call things tighter, players will adjust. If there are rules that players can’t adjust to, then the rules need to adjust. For example, people like to talk about offensive holding going on for every play, but the NFL’s rulebook has a list of exceptions that aren’t holding that actually make it so that even if you called it strict, there’s a lot of plays where there wouldn’t be holding called, because it’s not against the rules.

You’d have a real game because players and rules makers would adjust. That sounds a hell of a lot better than “Break the rules some, and we’ll call it sometimes, possibly at times when it fucks you over, good luck!” Or the alternative, “When it matters, people can break the rules and screw you over, because we won’t call it during high impact plays at the end.” We see both now.

Don’t meddle in the running of the team in a way that causes your team to lose draft picks! This is really my only complaint about Ross, but it’s a pretty big one.

Leon Lett, but I may be biased.

Can you do this again, but over the last 5 games instead of the whole season? To show where these defense are today?

The only real reason to emphasize that rule all of a sudden is for the refs to make the tush push more difficult

Or, because teams are openly and obviously committing penalties that aren’t getting enforced on these rules in order to gain a competitive advantage. That seems like another “real reason” to emphasize this rule.

Offsides has been a rule for over a century. I’m not sure if enforcing offsides is altering the game of football.

If you want to read about how this game was the one sent there, FMIA had a section on that today.

If this matchup is boring then we need to check that they sent the right two teams over.

There should be more than one replay official. Also, they should get to call anything, and they should also tell officials on the field when they’re wrong to wave off bad fouls. It’s absurd that we can put someone in a booth with access to all of the cameras (and instant replay), and yet can’t give that person (or people) the ability to correct 7 guys who are relying on only their own eyes in real time.

If this results in too many penalties called, then either players need to get better at not breaking the rules, or we should fix the rules to not have as many things be penalties.

Hell, on that flop of a RTP call in the Dolphins-Eagles game, you can see the whitehat ask his umpire “Are you sure?” clearly, and yet they still went with the wrong call. They need the replay official to jump in and say “Don’t call that, it’s not a foul!”