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Originally Posted by illdefined
with this new contact rule, interference is like holding. happens every play. imagine if holding was challengeable.
reviewable i think is good as long as its by the officials and on truly questionable calls.
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Ok...
This is something that pisses me off because the damn game announcers do the same damn thing. The new contact rule (which isn't actually new at all...nor does it seem to have been enforced any more than normal) has very little to do with Pass Interference. Pass interference as we all know (especially Mr. Harris and Mr. Gardner) is interfering with the the rights of another player to attempt to catch a thrown ball. In essense whenever a ball is thrown one player may not physically prevent another eligible receiver from trying to catch to ball. The new/not exactly new contact rule pertains to preventing an eligible receiver from even getting open AFTER they have exited the 5 yard safety zone but PRIOR to a thrown ball. Inside that 5 yard zone the secondary can basically do perform any legal act of contact(IE: not holding) at any time.
Now contact DOES happen on just about any play but for the most part it is of the incidental and non-impeding type. The new enforcement is seeking to eliminate the absolute mauling(impeding with normally legal types of contact...again: not holding) of receivers after the 5 yard zone.
My whole point is that Pass Interference and Illegal Contact are not the same thing and should be treated differently. One can reasonably assume a player, who having been interfered with thus causing him to drop the ball, would have caught the ball and that seems like it should be reviewable since it's not really that subjective. I mean either they guy impeded him from catching the ball or he didn't. Illegal contact on the other hand doesn't allow you to assume a player would have caught a pass since the ball was never thrown his direction anyways.
I say PI should be the MOST reviewed play in all of football and it is a sham that it isn't even reviewable at all.