Should Pass Interference be a 15-yard penalty ? or Stay as a Spot Call ?? NFL thinking of Changing it ...

[HacheMan]

There’s concern that making pass interference reviewable would undermine game officials, who have to make difficult calls in real time.

I am sooooo damn sick of hearing this excuse in sports.

Is it about the game & making it as good as it can be, or about the officials?!?

 

[quantumleap]

No, I think it should be a spot foul absolutely! Theres nothing worse in the college game knowing he's beat and just tacking out the WR to save yards...

and also, with the way they call it so tight it's a shame that a 7 yard route would be a 15 yard gain. it's perfect the way it is

I agree wholeheartedly. Someone who is beat should never be rewarded by committing a penalty. If a defender is beat the receiver should have a chance to catch the ball and possibly score. Don't penalize someone for running a good route.

 

[loomis41973]

They should make it a hybrid... because corners will take advantage of it and if they get beat just take the 15 yard penalty, which would suck. Intentional pass interference spot foul, minor infraction 15 yards. I think that would solve both problems.

Worst idea yet.

 

[DrunkenHorseplayer]

Things have turned ridiculous; PI should be 15 yards and neither PI nor defensive holding should be auto-first downs.

 

[GoSooners]

15 yd penalty for sure. it works fine in college. Nothing worse then seeing a game change on a long pass from a team that can't move the ball, get awarded a 50 yd penalty . The fact that league has taken away so much of the opportunity for defenders as it is, makes more of these huge penalties happen all too often .

But college and the NFL are two different sports. In the NFL the playing field is much more even in talent between the DB's and the WR's. So there should be a sizeable penalty there if the DB is being called for PI to gain an advantage. In college the talent level disparity is often so wide that a DB couldn't interfere if he wanted to, when the WR is much better. In many plays a college DB can't even put a flagrant foul on a receiver because more often than not they get burned so bad it's usually too late to do anything about it. It's not really that way in the NFL when you have two evenly matched players going after each other. If they insist on changing this rule, I think instead of the automatic 15 yard penalty they should cap it out at something like 25-30 yards. But it's probably best to just leave it alone.

 

[akphidelt]

Worst idea yet.

Which means it's a great idea. Thanks for the confirmation.

 

[scottcarter]

in the CFL last year they allowed a Coach to use a challenge for pass interference. I Like it and seen it work well. So that is my answer ... leave it the way it is but allow a challenge on PI.

I should be commissioner

 

[HarryCaray]

they need to change the half the distance to the goal penalty

1st and 10 at the 10 holding is only 5 yards so 1st 15 line to gain 20

make it 1st and 20 from the 5 line to gain 25

move the yard to gain line the the other yardage so its still a 10 yard penalty

I like this idea.

It always irks me when a team is 1st and 10 from inside their own one and someone on the line moves. It's either a 2" penalty on the offense or a 5 yard penalty on the defense. Or if there's a hold inside the 10, the defense is penalized far worse than the offense.

Your idea fixes that, I like it.

 

[The Guesser]

Spot Foul. And let PI be challenged as part of replay.