Chop Blocks Banned

[SlowGettingUp]

NFL eliminates all 'chop' style blocks for 2016 season

Good news for the Pats I think - going to hurt all the zone blocking teams and also reduce chance of injuries (which is always going to be good for the best teams).

Not sure who this hurts most. Texans, Broncos and Seahawks?

 

[VrabelJr]

The Ravens and Broncos just submitted their withdrawal letters to the NFL. They're pivoting to Soccer.

 

[Ivan]

First they lose both QB's and now they lose the rest of their offense. Tough off-season in Denver.

 

[Galeb]

It's about time. The downside is that there's going to be even more penalties called, disrupting the flow of gameplay even more. On the bright side, it makes room for more commercials.

 

[Ross12]

Just because they're banning the chop block doesn't mean the refs will actually call them on it. Denver's allowed to hold at will, I assume they will still be allowed to chop block as well.

 

[Galeb]

Just because they're banning the chop block doesn't mean the refs will actually call them on it. Denver's allowed to hold at will, I assume they will still be allowed to chop block as well.

Good point.

 

[ctpatsfan77]

It's about time. The downside is that there's going to be even more penalties called, disrupting the flow of gameplay even more. On the bright side, it makes room for more commercials.

As an interesting aside, there is actually a contractual limit on the number of commercial breaks that can be taken during each half of an NFL game (this is why they typically don't go to commercial break at all during the last few minutes of a half).

 

[ctpatsfan77]

Just because they're banning the chop block doesn't mean the refs will actually call them on it. Denver's allowed to hold at will, I assume they will still be allowed to chop block as well.

Peyton's gone, though. . . .

 

[rochrist]

NFL eliminates all 'chop' style blocks for 2016 season

Good news for the Pats I think - going to hurt all the zone blocking teams and also reduce chance of injuries (which is always going to be good for the best teams).

Not sure who this hurts most. Texans, Broncos and Seahawks?

Aren't the Pats a zone blocking team?

 

[varjao]

Looking forward to the thread "tackles banned"

 

[XLIX]

Aren't the Pats a zone blocking team?

Tough to say.... on many plays last year, they were a lookout blocking team.

 

[IcyPatriot]

NFL eliminates all 'chop' style blocks for 2016 season

Good news for the Pats I think - going to hurt all the zone blocking teams and also reduce chance of injuries (which is always going to be good for the best teams).

Not sure who this hurts most. Texans, Broncos and Seahawks?

We don't chop block ... but we are a zone blocking team ... so how would it hurt us?

 

[Galeb]

As an interesting aside, there is actually a contractual limit on the number of commercial breaks that can be taken during each half of an NFL game (this is why they typically don't go to commercial break at all during the last few minutes of a half).

Number of commercial breaks, not number of commercials.

 

[SlowGettingUp]

Aren't the Pats a zone blocking team?

More a hybrid I think - we do run some outside zone, but mixed in with power runs.

Gibbs is the father of zone blocking, with cut blocks pretty central to the concept:

Alex Gibbs, the godfather of the modern zone blocking scheme

 

[SHOWTIME15]

Aren't the Pats a zone blocking team?

At times the pats were a no blocking team last year

 

[Froob]

Does that mean the Broncos cheated to win their championships? Retroactive rule enforcement engaged.

 

[jboston19]

Did the Ravens' "we're still too stupid to understand an ineligible receiver formation so here's ANOTHER rule limiting it" pass?

 

[QuantumMechanic]

Note that only chop blocks were banned, not cut blocks. (Chop block = blocking below the waist while player being blocked is engaged with another blocker. Cut block = blocking low in a 1-on-1 situation.) So DEN is still in business.

 

[sieglo]

Tough to say.... on many plays last year, they were a lookout blocking team.

Does that mean they stood looking around while they should have been blocking? Because I remember that well from the AFCCG.

 

[XLIX]

Does that mean they stood looking around while they should have been blocking? Because I remember that well from the AFCCG.

You've got the right idea. It's when the defender runs right past the offensive lineman, so he yells "LOOK OUT!!!!" to the QB.