03-29-2023, 06:38 AM
The NFL needs two rules changes:
1. Each team may dress 3 QBs and make them eligible for the game, with one being declared the Emergency QB. Then 46 other non-QB players can be made active. If the Emergency QB plays, the first two QBs cannot return to the game.
This would allow teams to line up a non-QB at QB, but would ensure the first and second string guys can't return if the Emergency guy plays.
2. Any player who pushes a ball carrier forward from behind, who is not at least 1 yard past the Line of Scrimmage, will be penalized 5 yards.
It's simply unfair to a defense when they have a short yardage play defended well enough to get a stop, and the offense gets to ram the ball carrier - usually a QB named Jalen Hurts - into the line with more force than they would have on their own. NFL football is not rugby. The 1 yard component would create the margin for error officials need to make sure they aren't missing the penalty on the most crucial short yardage plays. It would be obvious when a player was pushing a ball carrier forward before that 1 yard zone. This rule would allow ball carriers to move the pile with the aid of linemen, when down field, after a first down has already been achieved in the majority of cases.
Going for a first down from your own territory should carrier a much higher risk than it does if the ball carrier can be pushed forward from behind the line of scrimmage, a play that is virtually impossible to stop.
1. Each team may dress 3 QBs and make them eligible for the game, with one being declared the Emergency QB. Then 46 other non-QB players can be made active. If the Emergency QB plays, the first two QBs cannot return to the game.
This would allow teams to line up a non-QB at QB, but would ensure the first and second string guys can't return if the Emergency guy plays.
2. Any player who pushes a ball carrier forward from behind, who is not at least 1 yard past the Line of Scrimmage, will be penalized 5 yards.
It's simply unfair to a defense when they have a short yardage play defended well enough to get a stop, and the offense gets to ram the ball carrier - usually a QB named Jalen Hurts - into the line with more force than they would have on their own. NFL football is not rugby. The 1 yard component would create the margin for error officials need to make sure they aren't missing the penalty on the most crucial short yardage plays. It would be obvious when a player was pushing a ball carrier forward before that 1 yard zone. This rule would allow ball carriers to move the pile with the aid of linemen, when down field, after a first down has already been achieved in the majority of cases.
Going for a first down from your own territory should carrier a much higher risk than it does if the ball carrier can be pushed forward from behind the line of scrimmage, a play that is virtually impossible to stop.