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Re: OT:Flopping in Football, is there a fix?
If a player goes down, then only he can be substituted - regardless of how many substitutions were allegedly going to take place.
Its counted as a 'hurry up' if the defense can't get aligned by the time the offense are ready to snap the ball.
You don't have to identify a 'flop' - which is why you make the rules as black and white as possible - to remove judgement calls from refs.
A flaw with the theory you propose is that teams might send a 3rd tier player out onto the field with the sole intention of flopping him.
So does that mean that if you see an opponent starting to cramp up, all you have to do is run to the LOS instead of the huddle and the other team loses a TO?
Lots of the other suggestions IMO require too much of a judgment call from the officials. E.g., how can you say "you only get to sub for the guy who went down" if there were already players heading on/off the field? What counts as a "hurry up"? How do you identify a "flop"? Etc.
The only simple, practical penalty I've seen proposed is a "you're out until the ball changes hands" rule. That works regardless of how much time is on the clock, doesn't require timing/babysitting/subjective judgments, etc.
If a player goes down, then only he can be substituted - regardless of how many substitutions were allegedly going to take place.
Its counted as a 'hurry up' if the defense can't get aligned by the time the offense are ready to snap the ball.
You don't have to identify a 'flop' - which is why you make the rules as black and white as possible - to remove judgement calls from refs.
A flaw with the theory you propose is that teams might send a 3rd tier player out onto the field with the sole intention of flopping him.