New "No Blind Blocking" Rule

[WyoHusker56]

43 minutes ago, GSG said:

They called one last night. Watch for #83 coming up from the bottom of the screen 

 

 

 

Hey forgot to yell "hey idiot" before making the block. Critical mistake.

[4skers89]

25 minutes ago, BigRedBuster said:

Wow...they could call that on about every play.

We'll get penalized 3-4 times a game with Frost's offense.

[billdozer15]

On 8/23/2019 at 1:34 PM, Enhance said:

I'm interested (nervous?) to see how this is actually enforced because it seems like there could be a lot of nuance.

 

For example, if I'm a blocker pursuing a defender, and that defender's shoulders are squared up to me, but their head is turned and I'm technically outside their current "field of vision," will I be penalized for hitting them? I can understanding wanted to do away with the hits that happen on the side/shoulder pad area where a tackler clearly couldn't see it coming, but the language seems a bit vague.

 

That said, I don't rightly know or recall how many hits Nebraska blockers had last year that would qualify as a penalty now. I can't think of any off the top of my head but I'm sure there were some.

I'm going to go ahead and assume any sort of block that de-cleats someone is going to get called. It'll be interesting to see how this impacts offensive play calling, especially with pulling linemen or reverses. It could effectively ruin the ability to run mis-direction plays.

[Husker in WI]

1 minute ago, billdozer15 said:

I'm going to go ahead and assume any sort of block that de-cleats someone is going to get called. It'll be interesting to see how this impacts offensive play calling, especially with pulling linemen or reverses. It could effectively ruin the ability to run mis-direction plays.

 

Tunnel screens could be dead as well, a pretty big piece of those is somebody picking off the trailing corner and/or pursuing LBs and it's almost always a block like the gif above. Used to just yell at the corners for not warning you, now I guess you yell at the ref to throw a flag. I thought the rule could make sense, but not officiated in the way it has been so far.

[Apsu]

Not just blocking, but tackling will also be scrutinized.

 

 

[WyoHusker56]

15 minutes ago, Husker in WI said:

 

Tunnel screens could be dead as well, a pretty big piece of those is somebody picking off the trailing corner and/or pursuing LBs and it's almost always a block like the gif above. Used to just yell at the corners for not warning you, now I guess you yell at the ref to throw a flag. I thought the rule could make sense, but not officiated in the way it has been so far.

 

Ya this is going to be brutal on misdirection plays. Maybe if players try to just run in front of defenders, make minimal contact, hands in the air that way you slow them down, but don't decleat them.

[GamingGlen]

So, lingerie football, anyone?   Is that still going on, btw?

[Notre Dame Joe]

2 hours ago, billdozer15 said:

I'm going to go ahead and assume any sort of block that de-cleats someone is going to get called. It'll be interesting to see how this impacts offensive play calling, especially with pulling linemen or reverses. It could effectively ruin the ability to run mis-direction plays.

It will become like targeting, actually a rule against hard hits.

[Moiraine]

6 minutes ago, Notre Dame Joe said:

It will become like targeting, actually a rule against hard hits.

 

 

A rule against hard hits is better than what this is, because the one GSG posted wasn’t a hard hit. 

[GSG]

Watch the back who gets the fake. He turns around and blocks a guy similar to the Cincy play, but no call

 

 

 

[jsneb83]

6 minutes ago, GSG said:

Watch the back who gets the fake. He turns around and blocks a guy similar to the Cincy play, but no call

 

 

 

I've seen that get called for block in the back

[ZRod]

Basically you're supposed to perform a basketball screen now I guess. You can make contact, just not with force. So... Stand there.

[84HuskerLaw]

1 hour ago, jsneb83 said:

I've seen that get called for block in the back

I believe you are allowed to block in the back behind the line of scrimmage (well, before this new insane rule).

[jsneb83]

31 minutes ago, 84HuskerLaw said:

I believe you are allowed to block in the back behind the line of scrimmage (well, before this new insane rule).

I thought it was you had to already be engaged on the defender to do that, but I could be wrong

[Notre Dame Joe]

Seems a lateral block from the side is outside the field of vision by definition.  Unless, blocked happens to have his neck pointed to the blockers side, which is more dangerous. 

 

At least Colorado's national title-clinching phantom clip in the 91 Orange Bowl is retroactively the right call.