I agree with this 100%. It takes away a judgement call by the official which, in my book, is always a good thing. The rule use to be this way back before the NFL wanted to make rule changes to generate more offense, which they believed would generate more viewership.

If people look at the rule changes enacted from the 60's to the 90's they were to increase scoring. They encouraged more passing. As a result of this, teams game planned around a passing game and QB's were drafted with big arms. Consequently, since the game was changed to encourage passing, more QB's who were standing in the pocket rather than handing off were getting seriously injured. So the league had to institute rules to protect the high prices QB's, like not hitting them when they sneezed (sarcasm).  A lineman used to not be able to put his hands on the jersey of the defensive lineman, but they changed that rule to protect QB's.

I'd like to see them get rid of as many judgement calls as possible. There'd be a lot less controversy.

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This is exactly correct. That is exactly what they want the rule to be, so there is no question whether it was a catch or not. This rule applies to both teams and fair to both teams. A receiver gets hit now, whether inbounds or out of bounds, as it should be.

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For a play to not be pass interference, a defender must play the ball and must be looking at the ball.  From that point on, it's anyone's game.  If the defender isn't playing the ball and is playing the receiver with his head turned away and impedes his ability at all to make the catch, that's pass interference. 

Establishing that as fact, if a wide receiver is going down the sidelines, the incentive for the defender to cover that receiver would take a serious dent.  The defender wouldn't have to play the ball; but rather, could play the receiver and wouldn't need to worry about the ball.  And if it's a sideline grab, the corner could just shove them out of bounds.  In my opinion, what seperates the good cornerback from an average cornerback is the ability to read and react to the ball, no matter where on the field.  Cortland Finnegan put on a clinic in the wild card game against the Chargers last year. 

This would also have effects on the NFL Combine and the drills established for secondary players, or render those drills completely meaningless altogether.  This would probably reverberate into the college game and how secondary coaches instruct upcoming NFL players, as well. 

Simply stated: The value of playing the ball would go down. 

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I hope they change it back. It wasn't broken before, they just wanted more offense.

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WHY ARE WE ALWAYS EXPLAINING THE RULES TO COLTS FANS??  lets make it simple so even an inbred 4 toothed turtleneck wearing clots fan could get it.  I DO NOT HAVE TO PLAY THE BALL, YOU JUMP AND CATCH IT- I PUSH YOU OUT OF BOUNDS= NO CATCH!!  That is also not PI.  This is not 4th grade math here.

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You obviously don't have a clue as to what I was talking about with my first post.  I'll leave it up to you to understand.   

I understand the concept of the new rule clearly.  I disagree with it.  I understand that's not pass interference.  If you push me out of bounds, it becomes a judgement call under the current rule.  If the proposed rule comes to fruition, it's an incomplete pass. 

What part of that made you think that I didn't understand the proposed rule?

And seriously: Grow up and quit playing tough guy behind the keyboard.

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I guess you aren't ignoring me anymore, eh, hypocrite?

See folks...allow me to clue you in as to how the Fargman rolls: He'll accuse people of saying something they've never said in a last-ditch effort at winning an argument.  Then, whenever you call him out on it, he magically disappears (Southern Chicken's response to him in a political thread was a classic example).  Then, he'll falsely accuse you of saying that you would ignore him, therein making you a liar in his mind.  Ask him to point out where he was lied to, and again, he pulls the dissappearing act and, rather than man-up and answer the question, he'll pull a super-cool Jedi-mind trick and revert back to accusing you of saying things you've never said in an effort to distract you and subsequently defending himself from answering the question with regards to how you lied to him.

As he told me once, may God or whatever diety he serves bless his heart. 

Oh yeah...almost forgot this one, crucial element to this entire process: If you cross Fargin, you're a waste of his time, despite all of his responses, public and private, towards you.  Whenever you accuse him of insulting you, he'll desperately look for some little, itty-bitty thing (like "grow up") that is minute compared to how he slammed you in an effort to make yourself look like a hypocrite. 

He'll probably come here and reply with how I roll and pull the same old, predicable acts.  He'll accuse me of saying things I've never said...and the whole tornado will just keep spinning.  He'll get the last word in because he, as he himself says, "can't let it go." 

It will happen, ladies and gentleman, boys and girls, cats and dogs.  Just sit back and watch.  I have no doubt about it. 

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