Nfl Owners Approve Rule Changes

KingDL1 · April 4, 2008

A handful of rule changes were approved on the final day of the NFL owners meetings, including one that means officials will no longer have to make a judgment call on whether wide receivers would have gotten two feet in bounds had they not been pushed out.

KingDL1 · April 4, 2008

NFL owners approve rule changes
A handful of rule changes were approved on the final day of the NFL owners meetings, including one that means officials will no longer have to make a judgment call on whether wide receivers would have gotten two feet in bounds had they not been pushed out.

I am not sure I like that "force-out" rule. Last year was there any 5 yard face-mask penalties? I saw plenty called where the fingers barely slid over the mask and they gave 15 yards even though the mask was never grabbed.

Mean Green 93-98 · April 4, 2008

The elimination of the 5-yard face mask penalty. Referees will have to decide whether touching or grabbing the face mask is incidental contact or warrants a 15-yard personal foul penalty.

So this means that now sometimes there will be no penalty at all for a facemask? That is a huge change. Defenders won't feel that they have to avoid the facemask at all costs anymore--just try not to grab hold of it.