The frustrating part about them calling off the defensive holding is that Brock made the Smart play and just threw the ball away to live to play another down. Picking up that flag was inexcusable.
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The frustrating part about them calling off the defensive holding is that Brock made the Smart play and just threw the ball away to live to play another down. Picking up that flag was inexcusable.
If you do something like this, teams would abuse this so that they could get free timeouts. When ever you need a free time out, wait until the offense subs, then walk out your sub on to the field so that the play clock runs out.
I could see a rule change that you cannot sub anything with less than 15 seconds on the play clock. And then you get until 5 seconds left on the play clock to get set. Once 5 seconds hits, ref pulls away and the ball can be snapped by the offense. Then you get what ever penalty is applicable.
After the game I told my wife that we were fortunate that the Cowboy's Missed Those 2 Field Goals or we would have Lost.....
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Which would have made the decision to go for it on 4th down so early in the game that much harder as opposed to kicking a field goal (assuming we made it).
I totally agree it’s great gamesmanship and a brilliant coaching move. My problem is that I wouldn’t say it was a legitimate sub since no one was coming off and therefore would directly lead to an illegal substitution by the defense. I think it’s a potential rule improvement. Something like defining a substitution must result in 11 players on the field or something
If OSU was that good, they should have won the game by miles and not have tried to win by inches.
That was the play where Purdy should have gotten rid of it. I thought it was a horse collar as well, but when I watched the replay I specifically looked for where he was grabbed. The OSU player had his arm over Purdy's shoulder and pulled him down. It had a similar look, but it wasn't a horse collar.
EDIT: Apologies. I'll have to watch it again, I guess. Velo made mention that he ended up grabbing the collar after the initial pull. I may not have watched it closely enough all the way through.
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None of the other common live ball penalties work that way though. Decline a block in the back or a hold, and the offense gets the ball where the play ended.
From the rule book
ARTICLE 1. REFUSAL OF PENALTIES
Unless expressly prohibited, the penalty for any foul may be declined by the offended team, and play proceeds as though no foul had been committed.
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The one miss appeared to be at the edge of the kickers range. if that would have went through that would have been pretty hard to stomach.
I'll give you the 32 yarder, but the guy has a 39 yard career long and the first miss was from 50.
The angle from the endzone shows him grab at the shoulder but then the hand slides and he gets a hold of the back of the jersey above the nameplate which by definition is a horsecollar. The last TV replay shows it.
Moot point. Should have been a penalty on the OSU lineman for pulling the ballcarrier forward. Iowa State declines, game over. Very simple.
Football: Helping The Ball Carrier
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That guy was spotting it short all day. Finally caught up to OSU at the end.
Let alone that sideline judge until that play screwed us the WHOLE game!Moot point. Should have been a penalty on the OSU lineman for pulling the ballcarrier forward. Iowa State declines, game over. Very simple.
Football: Helping The Ball Carrier
SHORT ANSWER: You can push the ball carrier; you cannot pull him. NCAA Football 2013 and 2014 Rules and Interpretations Rule 9, Section 3, Article 2-b (Page FR-96 or 98/216 on my reader) st…
Just noting, the first down was at the 40 and the yellow line was a good 1/2+ yard short of the 40. Even with the pull I don't think he made it to the 40.
yes.. but this is just a smart use of the rule by OSU. Def is allowed to sub. Net is, you can't make a late sub on offense or your at risk of having them pull this...
ISU has to get the right 11 on the field to start the play. Otherwise others will do this to us as well. In a close game, time outs are critical. You can't afford to use them like that.
That's not exactly how the game works. Iowa State got the ball with a 3 point lead and about 4 minutes left in the game, and were very conservative with play calling. If they didn't have the lead at that point no doubt the play calling is different.
That's on the offense for getting plays in so late. It's been a persistent problem during Campbell's (cough cough Manning) tenure.
Our timeliness on getting plays in and clock management have to be some of the worst in CFB. Half of our timeouts have been burned because of this ****. Shouldn't be that hard to figure out/correft.
Speaking of controversial calls in a game with OSU, the YouTube algorithm thought I might be interested in this video. OSU kicking a field goal to take the lead late in the infamous 2011 game. I did not remember it at all. Sure looks good from the TV angle but that can be deceiving.
