Illegal Contact

[Beast_from_East]

We are so used to Dez getting mugged all game with no flag we think it's not a rule anymore....LOL

 

[Vanilla2]

88 will never get the benefit of the doubt on any ruling on the field.

 

[Jenky]

Seems like illegal contact is typically emphasized later in the season.

 

[mahoneybill]

Seems to me that when Dez is unable to get separation, the DB covering him gets handsy and Dez is certainly inclined to answer with the same thing. Seeing as how they've both been guilty, the refs elect to let it go. It's not likely to change anytime soon -- it's simply the way things are.

Wonder what would be called if Dez simply ran right into the defender to knock him down, within the 5 yards. Do you think he would get a penalty?

 

[Reverend Conehead]

Annoying. The league should either enforce the illegal contact rule or just get rid of it. There should be no selective enforcement.

 

[Established1971]

I have been hearing a lot of people on ESPN and other media outlets talk about the low quality of football these days and I don't necessarily disagree.

This year I am hearing that the NFL is terrible due to bad quarterbacking and low scoring games. Before this we complained about how all of the rules favored the offense and it had become too easy to see a Nick Foles or Kirk Cousins pass all over the field and put up insane numbers.

It seems to me that, in the few games I have seen, the defense has been allowed to be more touchy in the secondary.

I feel like these scores are closer to what we saw in the late 90s/very early 2000s before the league decided to pass the Peyton Manning rules.

Is it just because I am used to seeing Dez mugged all day? Is the game just bad, or is the defense gaining back some competitive advantage with the rules?

The call of football quality going down will be something we will hear a lot of in the next 5 to 10 to 20 years as more and more players will get in, get one big contract and retire after playing 8 years or so because of fear of going crazy in their 50's. Unless they drastically change how football is played which will result in the same claims just for different reasons.

 

[xwalker]

It's odd to me that Dez is not getting the illegal contact calls.

Granted some of it is good defense, but man have the refs made it tougher on him.

He pushes the DBs often. If they call it tighter, he's going to get more called againt him also. He did have one called on him in Denver.

Dez is much bigger than most CBs. The looser rules should be to his advantage.

 

[Nova]

He pushes the DBs often. If they call it tighter, he's going to get more called againt him also. He did have one called on him in Denver.

Dez is much bigger than most CBs. The looser rules should be to his advantage.

I was thinking the same thing, too. Let Dez be physical. And maybe they're trying to do that, but the really touchy Denver call kind of changed my mind.

 

[Bullflop]

Which is fine if you let Dez do it as well. That OPI call was bogus within what was established as the acceptable contact parameters of the game.

If the ref doesn't have an advantageous angle to view the action, calls often go awry. I thought the play should have been a non-call if I'm thinking of the same one you are. It wasn't like that one play would have turned that game around anyway. We got whipped badly, plain and simple. We'd best play better to win next time, bad call or not. The officials also tend to cater to their eardrum-busting crowd.

 

[TheHerd]

If the ref doesn't have an advantageous angle to view the action, calls often go awry. I thought the play should have been a non-call if I'm thinking of the same one you are. It wasn't like that one play would have turned that game around anyway. We got whipped badly, plain and simple. We'd best play better to win next time, bad call or not. The officials also tend to cater to their eardrum-busting crowd.

Oh yeah, zero doubt that call had any impact on the outcome. I was just making a point. We got whupped at a level you just don't see in the NFL. It's rare a game is 42-17 and you can say the score wasn't as bad as the play on the field. Denver could have picked the score!