NFL Watch-ability and Future

[*PhilHos*]

(09-28-2015, 03:20 PM)Joelist Wrote: The 11 minutes of play in 4 hours is a pretty big exaggeration.

If there are problems they center mostly in two areas:

- Poor wording of rules
- Too many rules

These two are directly causing the "yellow tide" we are seeing.

Simple examples, both OPI and DPI are vaguely defined but have cataclysmic impacts on games. Really the definition should be far more exact (so they can be objectively called) AND the penalty especially on DPI needs to be dialed down to something like 10 yards and first down as opposed to spot foul.

Then there is the whole "process of the catch" nonsense. Again it needs to be simplified so that you avoid plays which to the eye and the intuition are obvious catches but per a weird rule are not.

Fix stuff like this and a lot of the issues go away.

I agree. Get rid of the judgement call penalties and the games will be a lot smoother. Also if holding happens on every play, call it every damn time until the players stop holding. Then the games will truly be decided by the players.

Side note: how interesting would an NFL game be if every loose ball was a live ball? In other words, the only time play stops is when the player carrying the ball is tackled. No more tuck rule, going to the ground non-catches, heck, no more dropped passes. Games would certainly be exciting, especially passes over the middle.