When is a pick play legal? When is a pick play illegal? Seems like this is wholly up to the decision of the Official…Does the NFL have a clear rule for these plays?
Within 1yard of the LOS I believe it's legal. Outside of that it is not. When is it called? Depends who the refs are, every team runs many pick/rub plays per game and they seem to either not get called or called entirely at random. I feel like they mostly only tend to call really obnoxious 3-5yard downfield picks and let the shorter stuff go unless the offensive player lowers a shoulder or tackles the other guy. It really is about the most inconsistent call on the field outside of what is considered a catch this season.
Found this, but didn't read it yet, might have some useful info or it may not, but it does predate the "emphasis" on illegal contact we're seeing this season so it may all be irrelevant. http://www.milehighreport.com/mhr-film-study/2013/12/10/5195218/nfl-rules-clarification-pick-plays Also: NFL rulebook http://static.nfl.com/static/conten.../pdfs/11_2012_ForwardPass_BackPass_Fumble.pdf Rule 8 is the forward pass rules.
Decker absolutely exterminated some dude yesterday on a big play for Kerley. This of course was before the refs cost the Jets the game, mind you.
I don't know how that wasn't PI and I don't know how more people aren't talking about it. Chung clearly hit Cumberland's arm before the ball got their = that is PI.
Dan Fouts explained it. Good defensive play. It was hard to hear him with the collective Pats' scrotums stuffed in his mouth. _
I just realized that all Jets games on CBS will be biased against us and all Giant games will be pro NYG. Tisch is both owner of CBS and Jints Dan Dierdorff also hated the Jets and he was a bigger duche than Fouts
That's one that expanded replay would help. Live in normal speed that happens quickly as the ball is getting there and is hard to call. Nobody noticed it until the replay.
I noticed it as it happened, the high definition tvs are so sharp the refs should call the games from the couch They miss a lot especially all those pic plays Belicheat has been rolling out for years
If a DB can't annihilate receivers on those plays, receivers shouldn't be allowed to "block" DBs beyond the LOS either.
To answer the question... It is legal when the New England Patriots run it. It is illegal when everyone else runs it.
When you blatantly ran that pick play in the red zone for a huge game and Cromartie lobbied very hard to the ref with no success? Yes. Don't act like the Pats aren't the god father of the pick play. Everyone has them now but no one runs them as often nor gets away with them as often as the Patriots.
I agree that the Patriots run the pick play heavily and I'm not a fan of it myself. But to say it's legal when the Patriots do it and not when other teams do it after watching the game yesterday is ridiculous. Also, I didn't hear this uproar the past 2 years when the Broncos were using variants of this play all the time.
It's funny, they showed a replay of the Jets supposed pick play where Kerley score. Decker doesn't make contact with any DBs, he just runs a flag route.
You noticed it as it happened? That's curious. The Steelers were on the same time as the Jets-Patriots game was on. Further proof that you are a Pats troll trying to turn all conversation to the Pats. What's it going to take for someone to ban this numbnuts?
I think there was definitely people bitching about it especially Charger and Chief fans but the big difference is despite being a complete shit head the media loves Manning and the gullible fans think he is really like the clown he portrays himself to be off the field. The big difference between Manning and Brady is that they are both assholes but Manning has a great PR team while Brady doesn't pretend he isn't a piece of shit.
Personally I think the reason the league doesn't flag this as much is because it leads to offense... if it was some sort of hinderance to the offense I'd think the league would find a way to ban it and flag it a lot more
