Rule changes that would benefit the NFL most
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The week-by-week progress of the NFL can feel like a whack-a-mole game in which each of the issues plaguing the sport presents itself. Sometimes it’s injuries, sometimes it’s the league running up against a larger culture war being waged, and sometimes itRule changes that would benefit the NFL most
The week-by-week progress of the NFL can feel like a whack-a-mole game in which each of the issues plaguing the sport presents itself. Sometimes it’s injuries, sometimes it’s the league running up against a larger culture war being waged, and sometimes it’s inconsistent or incoherent disciplinary action. In Week 15, it was the NFL’s host of complex and untenable rules.Two games with a national audience were decided by controversial rules at the goal line. Naturally, the more consequential of the two revolved around the NFL’s seemingly eternal problem of figuring out what is and isn’t a catch. Even before this past week, it was clear the NFL needed to streamline or at least clarify many of its rules. In fact, one of the fundamental criticisms of the game is that there are far too many rules, and they get in the way of the athleticism of the game.Here are suggestions for rule changes that could improve matters for next season and beyond.Relax holding calls According to conventional wisdom, it’s possible to call Read more