2015 NFL thread

[SteelCurtain]

For a QB, you can't touch his helmet with any kind of force. If they had called hands to the face, I think you could have made an argument there, although a weak one at best. His hand grazed the facemask on the way to grasping his jersey at his shoulder.

There is no 5 yarder any more. It has to be a 15 yarder. And that was not a 15 yard penalty.

What's "any kind of force" mean in that context? If I'm not mistaken, it did cause his helmet to move. Not sure if that's sufficient. Obviously it wasn't challengeable.

It means if there is any kind of hit to the helmet, that's a penalty. Not the penalty that was called here, though. It would be tougher to argue that there wasn't a hit to the helmet.

They called a facemask, and that categorically did not happen. Rodgers wears his helmet just like Favre did, chin strap loose. For this very reason. When you wear your helmet loose, it moves when you hit the turf. Sometimes refs will throw the facemask flag based solely on the state of your helmet after the tackle. The majority of the helmet moving came when he got thrown to the ground and his head hit the turf. He sat up and his helmet was on sideways, and that's why the refs threw the flag.

https://youtu.be/fbjBLVWE8j0

No way.

Mike Carey is protecting the league there, I think.