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I was watching the Fox post game show on TV a little bit ago. The crew was talking about how crazy some of these pass interference penalties can be. They can easily be a 30-50 yard penalty.

When teams are losing, they throw deep knowing if they don’t complete the pass they may well gain a penalty, and in many cases that will flip the game.

Jimmy Johnson in particular said it’s ridiculous and NFL should consider the college rule limiting the penalty to 15 yards.

Forget that it happened to the Saints today, but what’s your opinion on this type of rule change?
 
I was watching the Fox post game show on TV a little bit ago. The crew was talking about how crazy some of these pass interference penalties can be. They can easily be a 30-50 yard penalty.

When teams are losing, they throw deep knowing if they don’t complete the pass they may well gain a penalty, and in many cases that will flip the game.

Jimmy Johnson in particular said it’s ridiculous and NFL should consider the college rule limiting the penalty to 15 yards.

Forget that it happened to the Saints today, but what’s your opinion on this type of rule change?
Rule needs to change.

I honestly would even prefer if there was a degree of penalty similar to the way face mask used to be.

Inadvertent in fighting for the ball with tight coverage - 15 yds.

Intentional to prevent a long gain or TD - spot foul.

Sure it opens it up to interpretation by the refs - but they already kind of do that anyway.
 
Rule needs to change.

I honestly would even prefer if there was a degree of penalty similar to the way face mask used to be.

Inadvertent in fighting for the ball with tight coverage - 15 yds.

Intentional to prevent a long gain or TD - spot foul.

Sure it opens it up to interpretation by the refs - but they already kind of do that anyway.
Yeah, I like this. Otherwise, if a team is trying to make a long game-winning drive, the defense can just PI and limit the offense to 15 yards per play.
 
Yeah, I like this. Otherwise, if a team is trying to make a long game-winning drive, the defense can just PI and limit the offense to 15 yards per play.
What I wonder is, would Adebo's penalty today be of the "spot foul" variety or a 15 yarder? I would say the ref's would have ruled Spot Foul, and the result (for us) would be the same.
 
What I wonder is, would Adebo's penalty today be of the "spot foul" variety or a 15 yarder? I would say the ref's would have ruled Spot Foul, and the result (for us) would be the same.
What about, under 2:00, a PI is 15 yards, but clock is reset to the start of the play. So the defense can purposely interfere, but the O gets the 15 yards, and no time is taken off the clock.
 
What about, under 2:00, a PI is 15 yards, but clock is reset to the start of the play. So the defense can purposely interfere, but the O gets the 15 yards, and no time is taken off the clock.
I hate spot fouls that literally determine the outcome of a game. Happens way too often. 15 yards is enough of a punishment for contacting a player down the field.
 
When we received the ball with 2 seconds left I wondered why we didn’t kneel it. I think the chances of having a PI on a deep pass/Hail Mary is probably a higher percentage than a miracle return. I figured if that happens we at least have a shot at a FG on an untimed down.
 
When we received the ball with 2 seconds left I wondered why we didn’t kneel it. I think the chances of having a PI on a deep pass/Hail Mary is probably a higher percentage than a miracle return. I figured if that happens we at least have a shot at a FG on an untimed down.
They will let us have anything down field short of the endzone. you can't do crap with 2 seconds. We could have thrown it 50 yrds downfield and the game is still over
 
They will let us have anything down field short of the endzone. you can't do crap with 2 seconds. We could have thrown it 50 yrds downfield and the game is still over
If the defense commits DPI it would be spot foul and game cannot end on defensive penalty, meaning there would be one untimed down.
 
The only reason we hate the rule is because it is one that continually goes against the Saints and it has cost us so many potential victories. If our defenders could learn to play the ball and not get beaten on those deep routes, then we could accept the rule as it is.
 

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