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  • OL holding should be officiated differently. More like penalties in basketball. The line gets a set number of allowed holds per half and after that each one is a called penalty.

    Yes that means they could hold more early on, but that would risk a higher likelihood of holding penalties in key moments at the end of halves when it’s more valuable.

    Say the number is 5 allowed per team per half. There are 35 offensive plays per team each half. So the OL can only “get away” with holding on 14% of them, which I think we can all agree is less than the percentage of holds teams currently get no-calls on.

    You could build in safeguards against abuses as well like; no exceptions under 2 minutes.

    This would also allow linemen to learn how the refs will be calling holding for that particular game.

    If this worked for OL Holding it could also work for PI.