The league had a huge problem last year not flagging tackles getting a jump on the play to pass-protect their QB. Good for the league that they cleaned that up.
I watched replay after replay of the Awosika “false start”. It was the faintest of faint moves. The thing is, it wasn’t related to a “start”. The term is called “false start”. Pretty soon are they are going to call blinking your eye a false start? How is it an advantage? I get that you want to be diligent and not draw the defense off with little twitches. But I’d rather go by the adage - no harm/no foul. Hasn’t this gone too far? For the sake of the watchability of the game.
Also, are we going to allow the D-line to call false starts? I don’t think I’ve seen one case this year where the D-line points, and they don’t call a false start.
Its just a ridiculous slow-down of the game. C’mon Goodell you can do better.
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So many things need cleaned up. All it takes is for the opposition to shout and point and they get the call
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Comparing Awosika to watching the chiefs offensive tackle is ludicrous.
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except both involve the false start (or lack thereof) penalty.
I think it was the Chiefs, I saw their RT and the other WR’s that were supposed to be off the line were at the same spot. He was also still getting a jump on the snap counts.
Just doesn’t seem like the Ref’s are calling the false starts and illegal formations like they were to start the season.
You can’t get through a KC game without seeing them get away with some blatant procedural foul.
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Watching a lot of Chiefs games, I picked up last year how they are doing it. For the record, the Chiefs stole this from Philly, after seeing them do it in the Super Bowl. We can all thank Jaylen Hurts and Lane Johnson for the blatant false start cheating.
Basically the trick is the QB cadence. We all know, the players don’t move until the QB says hike (or go, set, etc). For this example and using the Chiefs, you have Mahomes doing his usual “wide 80” bullshit. What the offensive tackles are doing is when Mahomes says “set, go!”, the tackles are actually starting to get into their stance at “set”, not “go”. That way, by the time “go” comes out, the tackles are already getting into their stance before the defense can move across the line. It’s a timing thing, but if you watch the tackles and listen to the cadence in person or play it very slowly with audio, you can see that’s what’s happening. If the “go” is a half second late or the tackle gets twitchy, then they get the false start.
The alignment stuff is just blatant cheating that the league lets go on, because the Chiefs offensive line is actually trash and they don’t want the golden child getting hurt.
Don’t even get me started with the stupidity that was the Mahomes sideline running like yesterday. All day NFL Network has been running clips of his run, which Mahomes will fake like he is going out of bounds, then cut back in and keep running. If the defender goes for the hit, he jumps out to draw the flag. If the defender eases off, he jumps inside and keeps running.
For the record, if I were coaching, I’d instruct my team to go for the kill shot, every time. I’d much rather take the 15 yard penalty and know I put a serious hurt on the guy than let him play around like that and get a first and goal anyways. He may get his 15 yards, but sooner or later he is going to be awful sore and decide it’s just not worth it.
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It’s almost like they were playing in Green Bay.