News: PFT: Report: NFL has "no immediate plans" to modify enforcement of the taunting rule

Report: NFL has "no immediate plans" to modify enforcement of the taunting rule - ProFootballTalk



For the second time since 2014, the NFL has made its longstanding taunting rule a point of emphasis. The NFL won’t be de-emphasizing that any time soon.

Via Mark Maske of the Washington Post, the league has “no immediate plans” to instruct the Competition Committee to modify the enforcement of the rule.

Per Maske, the league believes that the application of the rule is “going as planned,” and that “players will adjust.”

The problems have arisen not from the decision to ask officials to actually enforce the rule as written but from the failure of the league to properly explain the situation before news emerged of the league once again telling the officials to enforce the rule. Too many people who are griping about the rule refuse to understand what it does and doesn’t prohibit.

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One of the worst rules ive ever seen.

Do the job you're paid to do and get back to the huddle. Griping because you can't get in someone's face/stand over them and talk s*** or spin the ball in someone's face is stupid. It adds nothing to the game.

These are grown men...act like they have been there before. Good lawd all this running to the end zone garbage is middle school stuff.

If an astonishing play happens and its at a critical time, I can understand the fervor by a guy...like the Mr Hines Ward catch in end zone in the super bowl...now that is worthy of a celebration. Quite a catch at a critical moment. But routine pitch n catch or 7 yard run through a hole you could drive a truck through...gimme a break.

Go Cowboys!