With rules favouring the offenses so heavily in the NFL, I believe that the intentional grounding penalty should come with an additional loss of down.
Meaning say it’s 3rd and 10, QB doesn’t get out of pocket, ball doesn’t get to line of drum mags, no receiver etc etc and he throws it away, i think it should be a dead spot foul, but the ball is now turned over to the opposing team. The 4th down should be nullified.
I think the defense should be rewarded for great coverage with additional pressure.
Yeah that’s gonna be a no for me dog.
Sounds great, while we’re at it we should make all Packers-Bears games end in orgies. Penalty if no orgy is waterboy has to be the interim HC for a week.
I’m so sorry r/NFL I promise not all Lions fans are as stupid as OP
A lot of us are, but not all of them
Remove intentionally grounding and loosen up the ability to hit the quarterback. Borderline roughing passers should go to the defense, not the offense.
Worst idea of all time
They do get rewarded… with what amounts to a sack… which usually was “about” to happen had the Qb not thrown the ball away…
No guys he’s onto something, there should be a firing squad with drum mags that shoot and kill you if you commit intentional grounding.
Offenses are struggling enough as it is
I support this so a player can intentionally ground it on 3rd or 4th down to trigger 5th or 6th down.
What? That’s a stupid change.
No, that’s dumb.
It should simply be changed so that it counts as intentional grounding even outside the pocket.
Too many QBs scramble outside the pocket, face an imminent loss of yards, then just chuck it so far over heads and out of bounds. It’s ridiculous. Why is this allowed?
If they got the ball and threw it out the sideline instead of spiking it would it still be 2 downs?
I disagree, but i support adding a 5 yard penalty from the spot of the foul to make it worse than taking the sack
Something a little more subtle I’ve thought would be interesting was if the quarterback had to land the ball in the field of play on a throwaway.
…what?
Like, the loss of down is to “replace” the sack that was lost by the grounding.
I dont even understand how losing an entirely unrelated down makes sense…