Why are there so many penalties on offensive gamers exhibiting up within the NFL as of late, and why do all of them seemingly come on the most important instances?
Final evening, Jason Kelce’s false begin successfully price the Philadelphia Eagles the sport in opposition to the Seattle Seahawks.
On Saturday, Denver Broncos offensive lineman Quinn Meinerz was offside on a fourth-and-goal play within the third quarter that negated a landing.
And allow us to not overlook final week, when Kadarius Toney was offside and price the Kansas Metropolis Chiefs the sport in opposition to the Buffalo Payments.
“I believe nearly everyone has acknowledged that the officers are completely right,” NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell mentioned on Dec 13. “That’s their job to name it a foul … I believe it reveals you the way troublesome it’s to do their job.”
Kelce mentioned that he had been warned beforehand about transferring the ball ahead for years on a number of events, however nonetheless was in a position to get away with it.
Again in October, Professional Soccer Speak wrote:
“Kelce mentioned that sooner or later, he plans to elucidate to the officers that he traces up together with his non-snapping hand on the bottom for the quarterback sneak as a result of it helps him to get decrease, and that they shouldn’t assume in the event that they see an errant hand within the impartial zone that it’s a penalty.”
Final season, there have been 284 offensive offside calls throughout the league. Thus far there are solely 224 this season, however the development of those calls the previous few weeks may push that quantity up. These calls are uncommon, however it might probably’t be a coincidence that there are two inside two weeks of one another, proper?
Others suppose there needs to be rule adjustments, like Peyton Manning.
“I believe they need to change that rule,” Manning mentioned to ESPN’s Pardon the Interruption after Toney’s offside name. “In the event that they’re going to name that, simply blow that play useless so we don’t see what would have occurred.”