crew1954
Third String But Playing on Special Teams
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CLICK HERE to Register for a free account and login for a smoother ad-free experience. It's easy, and only takes a few moments.The biggest change to the quality of the game itself was speeding it up (something baseball would be wise to pay attention to). Before this, there was the 45 second play clock which only started once the ball was spotted. Then they made the play clock 40 seconds and started it immediately when the prior play ends. The cumulative effect is a lot less down time between plays.
College football has the same rule. If you're criticism is their style of play is *too* fast, well I can't say I agree. I enjoy the no huddle, rush to the line offenses we see a lot of college teams employing.One reason I find college football hard to digest.
College football has the same rule. If you're criticism is their style of play is *too* fast, well I can't say I agree. I enjoy the no huddle, rush to the line offenses we see a lot of college teams employing.
That's a separate rule which doesn't really affect things as much as you think. The college game has far more other concerns impacting their length of game. Longer halftimes, much more scoring and most frustrating the excessive amount of replay reviews.No, my criticism is that the games last too long because the clock doesn't start until the ball is spotted (on first down, at least).
That's a separate rule which doesn't really affect things as much as you think. The college game has far more other concerns impacting their length of game. Longer halftimes, much more scoring and most frustrating the excessive amount of replay reviews.
2 points PT, IIRC doesn't the college game have a 25 second clock between plays? Wouldn't that make for a faster game? Secondly all those damned commercials are the reason the cap has risen over ONE HUNDRED MILLION DOLLARS in just 20 years. Hard to believer it used to be so low. Harder still to believe that 22 years before THAT, The approximately $15K minimum salary I was struggling to get looked so HUGE at the time.Yeah, that's certainly true. It's just another thing in a bunch of factors that make the college game too slow to watch a lot of the time.
The pro game has its nmoments of being too slow but it's almost always caused by the NFL's commercial insanity.
While it seems most teams play as if that were the case, it isn't. Like the NFL it's 40 (though each league uses 25 when they are resetting the play clock after a stoppage in play or something like that)2 points PT, IIRC doesn't the college game have a 25 second clock between plays?
No, my criticism is that the games last too long because the clock doesn't start until the ball is spotted (on first down, at least).
Whether you agree or disagree with the article, I found it well researched and documented and it made me go HMMMMM. That's what good articles are supposed to do, make you think.
As a football die hard and a defensive scheme junky, I never felt there was anything wrong with the pre-1994 version of the game, so those negative comments he mentioned were enlightening.
For the record, my ONLY complaint about the new passing rules is when the flag is thrown because a receiver was a victim of INCIDENTAL contact. If I were on the "committee" , I would require that the ref determine that the defender had somehow impeded the receiver more than 5 yds down the field. THe same with PI, the ref would have to believe that the defender somehow interfered with the receivers ability to catch the ball before it arrived. Mere contact wouldn't and SHOULDN'T apply.
Also I often see receivers initiating the contact and still get flags. I'm happy they are supposedly looking more closely at offensive PI, though it doesn't seem to be resulting in many flags.
Eventually, they stopped caring about the 2 minute rule unfortunately.
id definitely support that for inside 2:00 warningI actually like that rule. It is perfectly logical that the clock should stop while the chains are moved.
I wish the NFL would adopt it.
there are a fixed number of commercial breaks. If your above scenario took place that means you probably just had about 13 minutes of uninterrupted game time prior.This is because replays are another chance for more commercials.
It's even better when it's
Touchdown under review -> commercial -> upheld, extra point -> commercial -> kickoff -> commercial
Though television ratings remained strong
I have many times seen a TD, extra point, full commercial break, kickoff then another full commercial break, which makes sense because oftentimes a TD comes after a long drive and the network needs to "catch-up" to their amount of allotted breaks.SB39 is there a rule around how far apart the commercials must be.