Thumbs up on the "spike"

[Derinyar]

That play should be banned from the game.
It's violates the nature of the game on a give up play. Now defenses will run at Rapesherburger when they are spiking it and he will cry like a baby while the ref throws a flag.

A fake kneel down or spike is cheap and can cause injuries when defenses start to run at the offense because they don't know if they will fake it or really kneel or spike.

The 2011 NFL Rules state in Rule 7, Section 2, Article 1(c): "An official shall declare the ball dead and the down ended … when a quarterback immediately drops to his knee (or simulates dropping to his knee) behind the line of scrimmage".[2]

so the fake Knee should be called dead the second the guy acts like he's going to a knee. I guess you'd have a delay of game call if the guy proceeds to throw the ball after the "fake".

 

[superonyx]

The 2011 NFL Rules state in Rule 7, Section 2, Article 1(c): "An official shall declare the ball dead and the down ended … when a quarterback immediately drops to his knee (or simulates dropping to his knee) behind the line of scrimmage".[2]

so the fake Knee should be called dead the second the guy acts like he's going to a knee. I guess you'd have a delay of game call if the guy proceeds to throw the ball after the "fake".

If the fake knee is against the rules then the fake spike is the same thing.
The knee and spike are both designed and intended as give up plays. The only difference is one is to stop the clock and the other is to run the clock.

This crap is cheap and needs to be out of the game.

 

[Fla Cowpoke]

The 2011 NFL Rules state in Rule 7, Section 2, Article 1(c): "An official shall declare the ball dead and the down ended … when a quarterback immediately drops to his knee (or simulates dropping to his knee) behind the line of scrimmage".[2]

so the fake Knee should be called dead the second the guy acts like he's going to a knee. I guess you'd have a delay of game call if the guy proceeds to throw the ball after the "fake".

Doesn't apply because he wasn't taking a knee. It was one of those check with me plays, because Pitt's OL and other players didn't do anything to help. It was just between Roethlisberger and Brown.

 

[Derinyar]

If the fake knee is against the rules then the fake spike is the same thing.
The knee and spike are both designed and intended as give up plays. The only difference is one is to stop the clock and the other is to run the clock.

This crap is cheap and needs to be out of the game.

I agree but wasn't able to find any rules quotes that show that the fake spike is currently against the rules. And I guess the fake kneel isn't technically against the rules, its just that the rules say a fake kneel isn't something that can occur. The act of starting the fake kneel turns it into a kneel.

 

[CalPolyTechnique]

All things considered, McFadden didn't totally get dusted. It was a great throw by Big Ben.

 

[LittleBoyBlue]

Honestly I was kinda happy they scored there with enough time for us to drive back down the field. I was oddly confident that Dak & co would find a way to get it done.

Yup and somehow I wasn't surprised. I kind of saw it unfolding.

I posted right away on the game thread.... "cute but we aren't losing"

 

[Philmonroe]

When he was being so theatrical with his motioning for a spike, even though they had a timeout, I just knew right there they were faking it.

I didn't even need to see theatrics just situation to know that spike was most likely bogus. Them udes were at the 10 or 15 with l 50 seconds or so left, already lined up, why would they need to spike it? That seems more like common sense IMO but that's a young guy so I can't be too hard on him eps since we still won.

 

[Tusan_Homichi]

Well, it worked for them, but it left us with a lot of time on the clock.

 

[Yakuza Rich]

I wasn't really too upset about it. That type of play you're not going to get pressure on the QB and Roethlisberger threw a PERFECT pass to get the TD. A perfect throw beats great coverage every time.




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