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Originally Posted by Guru
A pick play is a pick play. So what exactly is a barely legal pick play?
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It's just in the execution of the play by simply being good at making the contact appear incidental- often times squared up back to the line of scrimmage, using your hands to signal for the ball, while knowing your going to run into the defender you're targeting to pick or rub on the play. It's posted on here in another thread, but you can clearly see their guys making a straight b-line for the defender, which you obviously don't want if you're truly trying to get open as a receiver.
Refs are obviously not spotting it while trying to survey the field, and depending on when they do see the contact- its actually been more to their benefit this year and they've thrown the flag on the defense for PI or holding a handful of times!
If you had a ref actually responsible for watching each individual receiver instead of assigned portions of the field it'd be way less of an issue. Hell, they have officials upstairs where it's way easier to spot from an overhead full view position- they could easily incorporate their responsibilities up in the box to flag calls and simply buzz the head official during the play when they see a penalty.
Truth be told, the NFL isn't so much instructing them not to call it, but it's definitely not something that is being highlighted for crews to be more attentive to, and they're certainly not going to add further personnel to aid getting more calls correct especially when it would deride their desire for more and more offense and scoring by the entire league.!