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I am Yoda · 11-20-2018, 12:58 PM

http://scores.espn.com/blog/nflnation/po...ying-field

The balance has swung too far in the direction of offenses, especially those with above average passers. Jeff Legswold suggests the following changes:

1. Make illegal contact a five-yard penalty, not an automatic first down.
[font=-apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, Roboto, Arial,]2. Expand the chuck zone to 10 yards.[/font]
[font=-apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, Roboto, Arial,][font=-apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, Roboto, Arial,]3. Enforce downfield blocking rules.[/font][/font]
[font=-apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, Roboto, Arial,][font=-apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, Roboto, Arial,][font=-apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, Roboto, Arial,]4. Enforce offensive pass interference on pick plays.[/font][/font][/font]
[font=-apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, Roboto, Arial,][font=-apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, Roboto, Arial,][font=-apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, Roboto, Arial,][font=-apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, Roboto, Arial,]5. Add an eighth official to crew.[/font][/font][/font][/font]

[font=-apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, Roboto, Arial,][font=-apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, Roboto, Arial,][font=-apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, Roboto, Arial,][font=-apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, Roboto, Arial,]I agree with all of those except #2. The short passing game would be severely impacted and would swing the overall advantage too far in direction of the defenses.[/font][/font][/font][/font]

[font=-apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, Roboto, Arial,][font=-apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, Roboto, Arial,][font=-apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, Roboto, Arial,][font=-apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, Roboto, Arial,]If I could choose only two of those, #3 and #4 would be my choices. And I would add one he didn't list: ENFORCE HOLDING on the offensive line! If they would do these three things, we could have real football again.[/font][/font][/font][/font]

Fix the O-Line!