NFL | Proposals for New Rules to Boost Defense - from www.KFFL.com
Sun, 20 Mar 2005 09:20:51 -0800
Adam Teicher, of the Kansas City Star, reports Kansas City Chiefs president and general manager Carl Peterson is sponsoring a set of proposals at this week's NFL meetings in Hawaii that would modify the passing rules and assist the defense. One would keep illegal defensive contact as a 5-yard penalty but not an automatic first down, as it currently is. The other would be to institute the college football rule for pass interference and make it a 15-yard penalty unless it was flagrant, in which case it would be a spot foul. Pass interference within 15 yards would also be spot fouls.
Sun, 20 Mar 2005 09:20:51 -0800
Adam Teicher, of the Kansas City Star, reports Kansas City Chiefs president and general manager Carl Peterson is sponsoring a set of proposals at this week's NFL meetings in Hawaii that would modify the passing rules and assist the defense. One would keep illegal defensive contact as a 5-yard penalty but not an automatic first down, as it currently is. The other would be to institute the college football rule for pass interference and make it a 15-yard penalty unless it was flagrant, in which case it would be a spot foul. Pass interference within 15 yards would also be spot fouls.
It also covers against the flip-side if a DB intentionally fouls a WR just to get 15-yards instead of where the WR might have made the play.
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