Yay or Nay

[trixstar]

:coffee:

[Ray27Ray52]

Wait, what? Please tell me this isn't actually being considered?

[trixstar]

Wait, what? Please tell me this isn't actually being considered?

It's not I'm just curious about peoples opinion on it.

[duwal]

No, it's a smart football decision

[Siberian13]

They don't need to throw the ball away like in the past considering the DBs can't do crap and the QB is protected more than Fort Knox. My answer is NAY. Tired of all the changes. Every year the fans have to figure out the new rules, it's ******* annoying

[Prenticles]

You need an undecided vote

[Seahawks fan]

No - Like someone said that is smart football. There has already been a barrage of bad QBs who never learned that and either threw a million picks or took a bunch of sacks... Forcing smart QBs to do something dumb is not the answer.

[norskarv]

Make it a 5 yard penalty with loss of down for throwing it out.

[RogerGodahell]

Nay, stop trying to screw with the rules and leave it alone for awhile. Sometimes you tinker too much and make things worse.

[TheFrenzy]

Nope.

If the defense keeps its coverage tight enough to force an out of bounds pass, they've earned a loss of the down, but we don't need to tack on additional penalties.

[ninjacookies]

I think that'd be a nightmare and there would be many more qb injuries for taking intentional sacks for fear of throwing it into tight coverage.

[twenty4seven]

There are too many vague areas to even consider such a rule:

1) Was the ball touched before falling out of bounds?
2) Did the ball touch the playing field before going out?
3) Is out of bounds beyond the end zone?
4) Was a forward pass executed or was the arm manipulated?
5) Did the ball slip out of the hand?
6) Is the quarterback dealing with a bad case of hemorrhoids? (just in case you were glazing over)

There are already too many rules that do not add any value to the game, both, for the viewer, and the nature of the game. Example: Illegal receiver downfield. What the poop-popping-turkey does that even mean? Every player on the field has eyeballs, hands and feet, yet are not able to catch a ball unless it is touched by another player first? Ridiculous. Or.... How about illegal offensive formation? Does this mean that the offense has garnished an advantage by offsetting the line? Does it mean that there is no defensive read against it?

Ok, ok, mini-rant over....

I just... wish... I... could.... watch.... more football than rule interpretation (No offense to Mike Pereira (He get's it right every time)).

So, after all of this, I can see your point when I see a ball end up in row J behind the Gatorade jugs and that special area where the Washington Redskins special teams coach, Ben Kotwica likes to pee during the game. It all seems insignificant though when the weight of the game is centered around possession of the ball and preventing turn-overs.

There has to be a fine line between the speed of the game and the rhetorical rules somewhere. The game will die without it.