Watch New England Patriots vs. New York Jets [10/20/2013] - NFL.com
OK, so someone went out of his way to change the highlights at this link.
The Gost kick at 3:00 in was erased. We were commenting yesterday that not only did a Jets defender push another Jet from behind on that play, but the guy who was pushed actually lined up over the snapper in direct violation of the rule. The Jets violated two parts of that rule.
Too bad we can't see the kick now.
Reiss reviewed all the kicks from yesterday and tweets:
"Mike Reiss @MikeReiss 27m
(2 of 2) Only thing that showed up was that Jets' Quinton Coples had less egregious push on Gostkowski's 44-yard field goal in 4th quarter. "
" Mike Reiss @MikeReiss 25m
On play, Coples lined up in same spot at C. Jones did. Coples looped behind player to his right. One-handed push. Player flips over snapper."
----Given the result of the player being "pushed", I'm not sure how that is "less eggregious", but everyone is entitled to their own opinion.
It clearly looked like Chris Jones was doing a stunt AROUND Vellano and just couldn't get around him. Coples clearly is NOT trying to get around the Jet infront of him - - he is full on - - not at a slant like Jones. The intents are clearly different and clearly more eggregios by Coples than by Chris Jones.
All that being said, if you read Reiss' article - - the NFL really has some "splainin" to do regarding the shoddy miscommunication of this new rule:
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"....At the same time, it takes only a Google search to understand why there might be some misunderstanding about the rule. The league’s own website, NFL.com, had explained the rule this way for the past six weeks: “Team B players not on the line of scrimmage at the snap cannot push players on the line of scrimmage into the offensive formation.”
An accompanying video had NFL vice president of officiating Dean Blandino saying, “They cannot push from the second level, the down linemen into the offensive formation. … These techniques are dangerous, pushing into the offensive formation, and that’s why we want to get them out of the game.”
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- - - But then the league "corrected" all this stuff and erased the things listed above from their sites. The league got their hand caught in the cookie jar there,folks.
http://espn.go.com/blog/boston/new-...8/misinterpretation-costly-for-belichick-pats
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