ever get the feeling they're making rules just to make rules?

Not yet. I'm waiting for the eventual it's illegal to hit a player while squinting into the sun to catch a pass because the giant star prohibited his line of sight.

Last time I checked, QB's were football players too.

If a bead of sweat touches the QB it's a penalty.

The Brady-fication of the NFL continues...Tuck Rule, now this.

Lord, this is really bad. Are they TRYING to get people to stop watching the NFL??

And it's definitely true, this would not even be talked about had it been Kitna, or Huard, or any other QB in the league, except maybe Manning (either one) or McNabb.

...no more wedges on kickoffs?? WTF? I guess they are tired of the kickoff being a potential game changer or something. They might as well just place the ball on the 20 and not bother kicking off at all...

I like these rules. Last year I was screwed when brady went down in my FF league

Thank god the teams can still run the Ol' Maryland-I

Piss on you! :D

ROFL The first time I read that stuff, I literally could not believe what I was reading. I've said in the not-so distant past that I felt this league was getting softer by the year, and so it is.

When it comes to something like the tuck rule, it makes sense because it takes the judgment completely out of the call. Either the arm was still moving forward or it wasn't.

As much as I disagree with the rule change, the death of the force-out rule does the same thing.


But these rules all seem to add more judgment for the refs.
"Were those players 'too' close on the kcikoff?"
"Was that a leg swipe, or a lunge?"


besides the fact that more and more rules lately, especially those protecting the QB, seem to completely go against the spirit of playing to the whistle.
This isn't a game played in lab coats on linoleum. It's played on grass, and things happen. Injuries suck...but they are a part of the deal every player signs up for.