Xs and Os: The Denver Pick Plays

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Originally Posted by htismaqe

There are dozens of holding no-calls every game. It's not even really new anymore. Every team holds. Hell, they teach linemen that way - instead of instructing them on how to no hold, they instruct them on proper techniques to NOT GET CAUGHT.

The only thing that makes the pick plays different is that they aren't called or not called with the same uniformity that holding calls are.

I've seen other teams do what Denver is doing and they get called for it. But it's not the Broncos. When Peyton Manning was in Indy, the same thing happened.

Yep. It has indeed followed Manning. A point I made early on in this thread. The Colts used to abuse the "rules" (and the Texans) when he was there. In fact the FIRST game where the Texans beat the Colts, they made it an issue before hand...