"Some coaches" want to outlaw jumping over line to block kick

[Jackson 2]

It may have come up before, but it seems an amazing coincidence to me that players have been attempting this type of play for years and the first I've heard about outlawing it has come since a Patriot successfully executed it on MNF. Odd...

 

[Tony2046]

According to the article there are two long snapping techniques. One is to snap the ball and go low and the other is to snap the ball and go high. Apparently most teams go high since the implementation of the rule which protects the long snapper as defenseless players. But some teams still use the old school go low technique and the Ravens are one them.

So my guess is that most teams would not want or see the need for a rule change because they use the go high technique and no team will attempt to jump over their long snapper but their defense could jump over an opposing team's long snapper if they use the go low technique.

 

[Hammer of Thor]

THIS is OK.



THIS is not.



I wonder why....hmmmmm...gonna need some help here......

Reminds me of this.

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[Tony2046]

Reminds me of this.

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That was hysterical. I've never seen that. hahaha

 

[tasmlab]

I love this play.

As soon as one guy trips over the center and eats a face-full of turf after spinning head over toe, the frequency of the play will regulate itself. Plus the 15 yard penalty. No need for a rule.

 

[50-yard-line]

The guy doing the jumping has to come running up. Coaching will beat the play by alerting the center and having contingencies on a charge. It puts pressure on the ST kicking unit to counter.

There's nothing nearly as "dangerous" on a line jump as there is for the guy who catches the ball and starts running upfield into a swarm of killer bees, each weighing in excess of 200 pounds.

 

[PF_SU]

I love this play.

As soon as one guy trips over the center and eats a face-full of turf after spinning head over toe, the frequency of the play will regulate itself. No need for a rule.

Jamie Collins flagged for leaping on PAT

 

[nabwong]

Shouldnt we outlaw tackling? I mean that's the single biggest reason people get injured.

 

[PatsFanSince74]

Heh heh.

How interesting that Bruce Arians is behind changing this rule while fabricating cheating charges against the Dolphins this week, which included an implication that Miami had somehow rigged the weather to rain extra hard when his Cardinals had the ball.

Rig the weather? Come on, we all know only Belichick can do that and that he's saving it for an outdoor Super Bowl.

But seriously, I think the pressure of having a team at 5--7--1 in the middle of December, when local fans and media in Arizona expected it to be in this year's Super Bowl, has driven the poor guy around the bend...is the old Red Beret starting to squeeze a bit tight, Bruce?

 

[PatsFanSince74]

Shouldnt we outlaw tackling? I mean that's the single biggest reason people get injured.

Well, actually, stepping on the field is the number one cause of injury since every player who gets injured does it. So, maybe we should outlaw that and play the games from the sidelines on Madden.

 

[XLIX]

It will be made illegal. No, not because the Patriots did it but rather because we are seeing more and more of it and it is an inherently dangerous play. On FG's you're not allowed to line up opposite the center and you are not allowed to overload one side of the ball for safety reasons, so I don't see this move surviving that standard either.

 

[jboston19]

The sun will rise, the sun will set, Lou Gorman will have lunch, and John Harbaugh will whine and try to change the rules after a loss.

 

[borg]

It's fun and exciting but an unnecessary bad injury waiting to happen.

Lets outlaw leaping to make catches because an unnecessary bad injury is just waiting to happen.

 

[neuronet]

Lets outlaw leaping to make catches because an unnecessary bad injury is just waiting to happen.

NFL 2050:

 

[Wheelman]

Didn't Jamie do it before Kam?

Nope, Kam did it against the Panthers as shown in that pic from @AtomicDawg and then Collins did it in 2015 against the Colts. Kam was unsuccessful for all his attempts, mostly because he was too aggressive. Collins was successful against the Colts extra point. Then I believe 2 players tried it(unsuccessful) from when Collins did it to when Collins tried it unsuccessfully against the Cardinals this season.(I think) And then you saw more try it this season successfully.

Then someone on another thread about this linked videos of 2 or 3 other players who have successfully performed this in the past.

 

[TBR]

? They have an unidentified league official off the record telling them the play will be reviewed by the comp committee to see if the clause about "landing on another player" should be removed, thus outlawing the play; and they have a coach on the record saying why: he thinks it's dangerous and should be taken out of the game.

It's a quote from Bruce Arians from October. That's all the writer has. The rest of the article is general information we already knew and a breakdown of the current rules and the McClellin block.

 

[Richard Camembert]

It's a quote from Bruce Arians from October. That's all the writer has. The rest of the article is general information we already knew and a breakdown of the current rules and the McClellin block.

The article says, "Some coaches want to outlaw the play." My quoted area is about how the NFL official stated that the play would be reviewed and how one coach in particular, Arians, thought it was dangerous. I'd call that backed up. Is it new info? Valid? Who knows? I think the writer thinks the play should be legal based on what the snappers say. But clearly not everyone agrees, hence the pending review and Arians quote.

 

[Wheelman]

Some insight into the donkeys game process of jumping over the snapper for the block.

Broncos, Patriots have both hurdled the long snapper