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Originally Posted by Mattyk72
Earlier this year, when the NFL banned certain peel-back blocks against unsuspecting defenders, few specifically singled out Denver Broncos offensive tackle George Foster as a culprit. Unless you live in a cave, though, and never viewed any of the thousands of replays that graphically illustrate the cheap shot Foster used against Tony Williams, which broke the ankle of the Bengals defensive lineman, you know whose indiscretion served as catalyst for the new rule. |
This is great, but a greater percentage of rule changes are created for the offense and its players. For example the greater inforcement of the five yard no contact rule for receivers last season.
As a result of a few talking heads complaining about the playoff game two years ago between the Patriots and the Colts, the refs were specifially told by the league to tighten up the enforcement of this existing rule.
In comparison, you can find an offensive lineman commiting a holding penalty on almost every play. Where is the mandate by the league on the enforcement of this rule?
The other infraction that offensive players get away with too much (killls me) is offensive pass interefence. There is a double standard, DB's so much as breathe on a WR and they get called for something, but WR's get away with pushing off all the time. A few times it happened to Redskins DB's this last season.
The truth is the media and the average fan that never has played organized football, only loves high powered offenses and in particular Peyton Manning type QB's. They only cheer and get excited when someone scores.
They can not apprecite the subtleties of a beutifully played game between two teams with powerful defenses. Low score to most fans and media means boring game.
Alot of these rule changes that are designed to generate better TV ratings (giving the lemmings what they want), protect the "stars of the offense" and create more offense. So in a sense these rules are propageted by the uneducated (football wise) fans that never played the game.
I personally find a defenseless 45-42 game boring. I like to see the the offense and the defense get the best of each other evenly. Not all one-sided