Ravens going for a 2 pt conversion and get a false start
so now they have to snap from the 7 yard line instead of the 2
but if the defense does an offside, it’s only a 1 yard penalty instead of 5 since it’s half the distance to the goal
idk this seems kind of unfair to me. should they change the rules for just this special situation. maybe a flase start on a 2pt attempt is only 2 yards?
I think that penalty is fine how it is.
One thing I don’t like is the 10 second runoff, which killed the Jets final drive. Ten seconds just seems like way too much time to runoff. Snapping before the offense is set might save you, what, one or two seconds? I think it should be a two second runoff or no runoff at all. Two seconds would still have killed the Jets drive, but if they’d have got that penalty with like 8 seconds left that would just really blow.
Anything less than 10 seconds means that you’ll see lots and lots of these penalties. It has to be costly and it should be costly - time management is a huge part of the end of game strategy.
You’re thinking about a regular, get everyone lined up (except one person who isn’t quite set), kind of penalty. Sure, it that case the offense is only saving a second or two.
But if there was no time penalty, teams at the end of the half/game would just run any two people up to the ball (regardless of where the rest of the team was) and have one pick it up and hand it to the other. That would save at least five or six and maybe even ten seconds. AND that’s ignoring the fact that the penalty stops the clock, so the offense essentially gets a bonus time-out to regroup, substitute, and call a play. That would be well worth the five yard loss to the offense. Heck even with the ten second run-off, it would be worth it on occasion, though those occasions are rare enough you can’t really expect a team to be ready for them with a deliberate ‘no attempt to get in formation’ snap.
I admit that esthetically it was a horribly anti-climactic end to the Jets-Pats, but the time runoff has a good reason.
P.S. Deciding when a catch is complete is a tough judgement call sometimes. Deciding whether forward progress has stopped for a runner who is lying motionless on top of a defender, with both of the defenders arms wrapped around him, really should not be a tough call.
I guess my feeling is, so what? At any other point in the game you get a procedural penalty, walk it back 5 yards and we move on with our lives. But in the final seconds we have to do more than just assess the yardage penalty, we have to manipulate the clock, too. I’d rather see harsher yardage penalties in the final minute than runoff any time. Make the pre-snap penalty a 15 yarder in the final minute or whatever.
It’s like if in basketball you assess a 5 second runoff for every foul by the losing team in the final 2 minutes.
I was too happy to post yesterday: the Lions fired their OC and two offensive line coaches! Maybe, just maybe, Stafford will survive the season without a serious injury.
Also, in other News From Bad Teams, the Texans cut Ryan Mallett today. Good riddance to him; that dude has been a headcase since college.
Great day to be a Bengals fan! All the other AFCN teams lost while we healed nicks. Playing Steelers and Browns in a short turnaround week will show the Bengals mettle. On paper they should be sitting at 8-0 after both games but AFCN divisional games are always a little wacky so who knows?
But the point is, the offensive penalty is already manipulating the clock: the clock stops running when there’s a penalty. Now, most of the game, who cares? But at the end of the half, when the offense has a big reason to want the clock stopped, there’s a good reason to not give the offense an incentive to intentionally foul.
He was not motionless. There was a moment in slo-mo where he was shifting to get his legs under him again and not moving much, but he never stopped trying to get free and keep running. And if the defender doesn’t hear a whistle, it’s on him for letting go.
Jason Pierre-Paul has signed a new deal with the Giants. Using his left hand, presumably.