Suggested rule changes for the NFL
 

1. No more Thursday games. Should not have to play on 3 days rest. Exception Thanksgiving let Detroit and Dallas have their games for tradition.

2. In a 7 point game if the trailing team scores a TD they must go for 2. Example if team a is up 7-0 in the 1st Q and team B scores a TD to make it 7-6 they must go for 2. If team A is up 31-24 with 10 seconds left and team B scores they must go for 2.

3. If you line up to go for it on 4th down you must go for it. So sick and tired of "just trying to draw them offsides." You can't call TO and a delay of game is a turnover on downs.

4. Less timeouts. 6 TO's per team is a joke. Especially with the 2 min warnings, stoppage at the end of quarters and countless free TO's for commercials and reviews. Add to that coaches "I will never take a TO to the locker room!!" mentality and the games can be painful to watch. The NHL has this right and the NFL should follow. One TO per team per game. I'll admit redzone with 7 hours of commercial free football has spoiled me and between the TO's, penalties, reviews, and 100 pre snap whistles a game I get really bored watching stand alone games. Let's speed up the games

5.Enforcement of roughing the passer/late hit/unnecessary roughness. NFL should take another cue from the NHL here. NHL rules state you cannot check from behind or drive someone into the boards but this rule is broken about 20x a game. It is usually only called when the impact is hard and it does damage to an opposing player. They don't call soft shoves from behind and the NFL should not call RTP when a hand grazes the QB's helmet. Some RTP calls the QB doesn't even go down it's just a push in the shoulder. I'm talking about you Brady and Rodgers. If the QB is getting right up pumping his fist and celebrating RTP should not be called.

6. Intentional grounding. Rarely called because if the QB takes 2 or 3 steps to the left or right grounding the ball is legal. Just get rid of the penalty for intentional grounding but any pass that doesn't get to the line of scrimmage is a live ball. Would be very exciting and would stop all these check down Charlie QB's from boring us to death with their dink and dunk

What are some rule changes you guys would like to see?

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1) Im ok with this


2) no


3) no


4) not sure about this


5) i kind of agree, but might be difficult to enforce properly


6) definitely needs a look at the rule, live ball is a bit extreme though

Many years ago I said it should be legal to knock a WR out of bounds before both feet came down..The league agreed with that one

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Agree on 3. If you line up to go for it and back out, automatic 15 yards for being a turd. No TO allowed. Be a man or don’t line up.


Also no TO on FG attempts after the kicker is lined up. It’s more chickenshit turd behavior and there’s no evidence it even works anyway. Ice him anytime before if you want, but once the huddle breaks it’s one kick to win or lose

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I feel like the OPI vs DPI penalties need balancing.
It is so easy to draw DPI on an underthrown deep ball.

Remember the raiders game where we were called for DPI or holding like 4 times on the final draw, and the raiders won on a clear push off for a TD?

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An NFL game should never, ever, under any circumstances, end in a tie.

It's too radical for the NFL, but I'd like to see one of these startup leagues try eliminating the punt, and make the teams go for it on every 4th down.

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