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.
spot of the foul and losing the down is penalty enough imo, basically like taking a sack at the spot of the throw
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.
If you don’t want to see the glue for most teams go down with injuries then you should want to see intentional grounding eliminated. To balance that out allow defense contact ONCE within ten yards from the line of scrimmage and make PI a 15 yard penalty instead of the spot of foul.
I feel like this gives Refs too much of an ability to influence the game.
This is a terrible idea. The point of the grounding penalty is to turn intentional grounding into a sac. Loss of down and spot of the foul, it’s basically a sack. Why on earth would you lose an additional down? There is no other penalty like that, no precedent for a penalty like this, and it’s an awful idea.
Speaking of which, why isn’t intentional grounding a spot foul
I don’t support that, but I do support changing intentional grounding to only be negated by a catchable ball like how it is required to trigger DPI. If you’re being pressured and dirt a ball at the feet yards away from a blocking RB or TE, that should be treated as a sack. Force more actual plays when the defense wins at the LoS, will lead to more turnovers and excitement.
I think that’s a bit extreme but it is weird that there’s really no downside to it
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?
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.
If they got the ball and threw it out the sideline instead of spiking it would it still be 2 downs?
…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…
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.
I support this so a player can intentionally ground it on 3rd or 4th down to trigger 5th or 6th down.