All the National Football League rule changes, including banning this play

The obvious big news will be the leaper penalty for field goal and extra point attempts. The rule was adopted for player safety.

“It can be a risky play when a guy gets flipped in the air”, O’Brien said.

National Football League owners will be in Phoenix, Ariz., for two more days and apparently want to improve officiating and make more efficient use of time on game day.

The proposal to shorten the league’s overtime period from 15 minutes to 10 minutes for preseason and regular-season games was tabled on Tuesday.

Ejections for two unsportsmanlike fouls in a game, introduced last season, was made permanent. The ball will thus continue to be placed at the 25-yard line for all touchbacks, as owners approved the placement on a one-year basis for the second year in a row. Currently, teams must be successful on both challenges to get a third.

I don’t know how affected by this rule change the Titans will be, as we haven’t seen a good special teams play from the Titans in literally years. So I’ll be very interested to see what they’ll do there.

By Competition Committee; Gives a receiver running a pass route defenseless player protection.

-Crackback blocks by a backfield player who goes in motion are now banned.

Not everybody is on board with eliminating the play, though.

The move is meant to bring more consistency to controversial plays, such as what constitutes a catch. I think it’s bad for football.

Blandino, who has two assistants who also can make the final decisions at the officiating headquarters, said he has no concern about being undermanned during a heavy schedule. There was often a huge debate of whether the play was legal or not everytime it happened.

Committing multiple penalties during the same down to manipulate the game clock will now be considered unsportsmanlike conduct.

– Made actions to conserve time illegal after the two-minute warning of either half.

The number in parenthesis indicates the original rule proposal number.

Now we’ve moved into the bylaws portion of the changes.

Automatic Ejection for Two Certain Unsportsmanlikes (#8): This rule existed previous year, and led to three ejections. Those types of tests were not allowed.

Eventually, it’s likely, less attention will be paid to how long it takes to get a replay decision, and more to whether this system gets more calls right – and if it doesn’t, who will catch the blame. It’s really just standardizing similar procedures.