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"This is the first year I can remember where the defense has more advantages with the rule changes than the offense," Lovett, a former field judge, said Thursday in a presentation with South Florida media about the rules changes for 2008.
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The most significant change is the elimination of the "force-out" rule for receivers and defensive backs. A receiver must plant both feet inbounds for a completed catch, even if the defender pushes him while he is in mid-air. In previous years, officials could give the receiver a catch if they ruled the receiver would have landed inbounds if not for the push out.
However, if a defender completely wraps his arms around the receiver while in mid-air and throws him out of bounds, it still is a catch.
"It's a fine line, but that's going to be the only judgment," NFL referee Tony Corrente said. "It's kind of unique, that you're going to see maybe a little defensive leeway being allowed."
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The effect of this rule, Dolphins receiver Derek Hagan said, is that it narrows the field significantly.


And the Dolphins are adjusting. On the practice fields at Davie, coaches painted a red line about 6 yards in from the sideline, and the receivers treat it as the new out-of-bounds line.


"If you jump for the ball near the sidelines, the defensive back is going to toss you out, so this helps us know where we're at," Hagan said.
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The NFL also eliminated all 5-yard face-mask penalties, which were assessed when players accidentally grabbed the face mask, but didn't twist. Twisting the face mask still is a 15-yard penalty.


And the defense finally will be allowed to communicate with coaches via an earpiece in the helmet, as the quarterbacks do with their coaches. Only two defenders on the active roster will be allowed to have an earpiece for a game, and only one earpiece can be on the field at a time.
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http://www.palmbeachpost.com/dolphins/content/sports/epaper/2008/07/31/a7c_dolphins_sider_0801.html
 
I hope the force-out rule is abused by DBs in the end zone. It's one of the things I'm looking forward to more than anything this season.

The fade is the most worthless recent addition to this sport, a complete cop out by coordinators who can't think of or execute anything else. There's a pathetic lack of both brute force and variety by NFL offenses in the red zone recently, and I attach plenty of blame on absurd reliance on the fade, particularly on 3rd down. That play didn't even exist in the old days of creativity like the 65 Toss Power Trap.

I'm prepared to laugh for a week if a DB shoves a lanky receiver out of bounds in the end zone to decide the outcome of a pivotal game.
 
Awsi Dooger said:
I hope the force-out rule is abused by DBs in the end zone. It's one of the things I'm looking forward to more than anything this season.

The fade is the most worthless recent addition to this sport, a complete cop out by coordinators who can't think of or execute anything else. There's a pathetic lack of both brute force and variety by NFL offenses in the red zone recently, and I attach plenty of blame on absurd reliance on the fade, particularly on 3rd down. That play didn't even exist in the old days of creativity like the 65 Toss Power Trap.

I'm prepared to laugh for a week if a DB shoves a lanky receiver out of bounds in the end zone to decide the outcome of a pivotal game.
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i loved the fade when we had Orande and when Chambers Actually tried.
 
The fade just seems like such a crapshoot to me.
 
For the face mask change, does that mean that all grabbing of the face mask will be 15 yards now? Or does it mean that if you grab it accidentally and let it go quickly there will be no penalty and only the grabbing and twisting will be penalized?
 
FINS4LIFE16 said:
For the face mask change, does that mean that all grabbing of the face mask will be 15 yards now? Or does it mean that if you grab it accidentally and let it go quickly there will be no penalty and only the grabbing and twisting will be penalized?
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I was wondering the same thing.
 
FINS4LIFE16 said:
For the face mask change, does that mean that all grabbing of the face mask will be 15 yards now? Or does it mean that if you grab it accidentally and let it go quickly there will be no penalty and only the grabbing and twisting will be penalized?
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Sounded to me like the latter because the article did state:

Twisting the face mask still is a 15-yard penalty.
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Tells me that they are eliminating the accidental minor grabbing but "still" keeping the "twisting" penalty.
 
How do folks think this will impact the general character of the game?

Will it impact things like play selection and personnel decisions?
 
Force out will be gone in a year or 2 when scoing drops a bit.

Face mask will stay and is good

Headset is good letting alot of rookie transistion to MLB as playcalling is not done at LOS by MLB.
 
The head set rule is kinda quirky. Why only one head one the field at a time? As much as defensive guys rotate you would think they might limit it two but not object to both on the field at the same time. Now I guess when one of the two are being rotated they are going have to possibly rotate the other guys helmet too.
 
You are going to see Manning and Brady's numbers drop significantly. It will allow Marino's accomplishments to shine more.
 
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