NFL Referees Have Reportedly Received Notable Instruction

[ElGatoGrande]

New rule next year: Kickers cans use markers,,,, the fans are overjoyed.

 

[speedkilz88]

Has there been any examples shown of kicker & holders doing this?

 

[Creeper]

Color me curious.

 

[gtb1943]

Just another example of the incompetency of both the officials and the NFL

This was always against the rules; and yet they have to be reminded?

And it reflects on the NFL as being the only professional sports league in the world without full time professional officials

 

[Aven8]

Is this like teams pointing laser pointers in the kickers eyes?! Lol

 

[jazzcat22]

So a bug flies onto the field a yard away from the holder...official throws a flag, stating it was a marker.....for Dallas....

For TB ..... Brady brings a tee onto the field and places for the K ... officials look right at it, blows the whistle ready for play...

book it.

 

[jrumann59]

The more air the kicker could get under the football the father, the football travels. No matter how insignificant it might seem.

not true there is a sweet spot.

 

[Whirlwin]

not true there is a sweet spot.

You have to get air under the ball. How is that not true

 

[zrinkill]

I hate kickers, doesn't surprise me a bit they're a bunch of cheating scoundrels. I think the refs should be allowed to make them bend over and spread it, like they do in prison, to make sure they're not sneaking these "foreign objects" onto the field.

I think when kickers miss a PAT, the entire line that blocked for them should be allowed to beat hell out of them. Show them the importance of one point.

Hostile is that you?

 

[MarcusRock]

I'm confused, were teams doing this in the regular season? Any examples on what they mean by foreign object?

Here's the source of the story with video examples. STILL PICTURES AREN'T ENOUGH! Lol.

https://www.footballzebras.com/2023...-foreign-objects-used-for-fg-and-xp-attempts/

 

[jrumann59]

You have to get air under the ball. How is that not true

More air to a certain point. Your comment more air equals more distance which is not true.

 

[Vtwin]

So the spotter on a field goal brought a tee onto the field with him?


Oh gee, Mr.Ref we didn't kick off of that. We just brought it the mark the wind direction.
But there's flags at the top of the goal post.

Instead of placing the ball on the tee as designed they were using a holder on kickoffs to place the ball on a raised part on the back of the tee which helped the kicker get a lot of height on the ball, and to drop it in inside the ten forcing a catch and a runback. More like a punt than a kickoff but without the fair catch option.

I can't believe Belichick didn't figure that out years ago.

 

[Praxit]

..what..!! ..lol.. like what? What can you possibly hide as foreign objects?

They brought this up, because either in college or NFL someone tried trickery.

 

[JD_KaPow]

Instead of placing the ball on the tee as designed they were using a holder on kickoffs to place the ball on a raised part on the back of the tee which helped the kicker get a lot of height on the ball, and to drop it in inside the ten forcing a catch and a runback. More like a punt than a kickoff but without the fair catch option.

I can't believe Belichick didn't figure that out years ago.

But this guidance isn't about kickoffs, it's about FGs and XPs.

 

[G2]

Why did they say anything?

 

[jwitten82]

Here's the source of the story with video examples. STILL PICTURES AREN'T ENOUGH! Lol.

https://www.footballzebras.com/2023...-foreign-objects-used-for-fg-and-xp-attempts/

Link didn't work

 

[32BellyOption]

How bout the giving the refs instructions to call holding when Micah is given a bear hug.

 

[MarcusRock]

Link didn't work

Let me try to hide link it instead. Maybe the new upgrade did something. Click HERE.

 

[jwitten82]

Let me try to hide link it instead. Maybe the new upgrade did something. Click HERE.

Yea, works now, this is interesting. I wonder how long this has been going on and if it's part of the reason 55+ yard fgs seam to be normal now. That object is hard to spot

 

[pentatwirl]