Suggested rule changes for the NFL

[Rain Man]

1. Disagree. Keep Thursday night football. It makes it more likely that I'll be able to watch the Chiefs whenever they play.

2. Disagree. Let coaches have different strategies.

3. Disagree mildly. It's annoying, but part of the game. However, defending teams should not be allowed to call timeout on field goal attempts. The whole 'icing the kicker' thing is a waste of time.

4. Disagree mildly. I don't really notice this as a negative unless it's the reason that coaches "ice the kicker".

5. Somewhat agree. Incidental contact shouldn't be called, like when the referees gave tom brady a super bowl by calling a penalty on Chris Jones for brushing the tip of his face mask from three feet away. If refs can distinguish roughing the kicker from running into the kicker, they can distinguish roughing the passer from brushing the passer. It would be ideal if roughing wasn't called unless the QB went down, but I don't want to encourage flopping so I don't know how to implement that.

6. Agree with a twist. I like the proposed rule of making it a live ball if it doesn't reach the line of scrimmage. I would also consider a rule addition on out of bounds throws. You put a wire up around the field (all four ends) that is 10 feet past the sideline and 8 feet in the air (or whatever distance is enough to ensure that it'll never interfere with a receiver). Any pass that goes over that wire is a loss of down atop the incompletion. So if a QB goes back on 1st down and chucks the ball up into the stands, it's an incomplete pass and a loss of down. So now it's third down.