More offensive holding to be called this year

[Sword]

Peppers might be smiling if he hears of this..

According to stats compiled by the league, officials made 587 offensive holding calls in 2008. It was the second-most called penalty, behind false starts (653) and ahead of offside (313).

As a whole, total penalties were at their lowest point (3,392) since 1992 (3,344).

And the drop in holding calls was noticeable. In 2005, officials threw flags for holding 880 times, a difference of nearly 300.

Pereira said that, in breaking down video of all games from 2008, officials failed to penalize 177 holding calls. He said there were also "about 50 missed calls, for more than 220 mistakes in total."

Pereira added, "From more than 3,200 plays, that's not that bad, but it's something we're working on."

http://profootballtalk.nbcsports.com/2009/08/21/pereira-says-offensive-holding-calls-will-rise/

[kungfoodude]

I want to see more offensive pass interference called. That has to be the most undercalled(is that a word?) penalty in football as a whole.

[PantherBoy95]

Pep probably accounted for 172 out of those 177 LOL

[Mr. Scot]

Dear Julius,

Merry Christmas.

Mike Pereira

P.S. Regards to Foxy too

[CanadianCat]

this will also benefit all speed guys... brown

[thefuzz]

Easy way to slow down scoring just a bit.

That will hurt some of the high flying O's some.

[Fireball77]

I want to see more offensive pass interference called. That has to be the most undercalled(is that a word?) penalty in football as a whole.

This preseason the games I have seen actually do seem to be calling it more often which I love also.

They are NOT calling holding more often though,at least so far.

Another area they are effing up is that i am not seeing the latest flag football rule being called at all. You know, the one that was made because Hines Ward delivered a nice clean hit last year and they decided it was too violent? Pretty soon, the Combine will have a drill in which players will be made to fly at a tackling dummy that is being moved to see how fast their reaction time is such that they can, while in MIDAIR, adjust so that they hit a guy only between the shoulders and the thighs.

[kungfoodude]

They focus far too much on limiting hits and tackles and not nearly enough on improving safety equipment, IMO.

[CharlotteBeer.com]

Peppers will probably be smiling no matter the circumstances.

[Fireball77]

Look you are preaching to the choir on that. Am I the only one who sees that players (mainly skill/speed ones like CBs and WRs) don't wear the pads they used to back in the day and the rate of injuries seems to be increasing? I am sure it has a little to do with it. But they sacrifice a lot just to get a billionth of a second of speed. I feel the same about their shoes.

[kungfoodude]

It is ridiculous to believe that with advances in synthetics and composites that there cannot be better equipment that can be developed. Obviously, no one wants to see them in suits of armor but I cannot believe with all the technological advances that are made that we can't make light and unobtrusive equipment that protect much better than what there is.

IMO, there has simply not been enough put into improving the equipment as much as improving the athletes.

[Snake]

I doubt it will change all that much. The NFL likes to see big plays and alot of them come when you hold the DE. I mean every team dose it so we are gonna have longer games if they really do.

[thefuzz]

I agree FB.

The super skill positions wear almost nothing on thier legs, funny that it's the most important part of their body for thier position.

[Fireball77]

I would love to see a study of leg/ankle/foot/hip pointer type injuries from the padded/real shoes days to now. I may be an oldie with a bad memory but I surely don't remember all the leg injuries back in the day that they have now.