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Taunting rule may be tweaked
Updated: October 30, 2013, 7:37 PM ET
ESPN.com news services
Taunting Rule To Be Reviewed
Head of officiating Dean Blandino said the NFL's competition committee likely will review the league's taunting rule this offseason.
Blandino, in an appearance on NFL Network, was explaining the penalty assessed on Golden Tate and the Seattle Seahawks on Monday night, after the wide receiver began waving at and taunting St. Louis defenders at the Rams' 25-yard line en route to an 80-yard touchdown.
Blandino explained that in the NFL, taunting is a dead-ball foul, which means the play counts and a penalty is assessed on the next play. He compared that to college rules, which would have nullified the touchdown and assessed a penalty at the spot of the foul, meaning instead of a touchdown the Seahawks would have been at the Rams' 40.
"A lot of people felt that the touchdown shouldn't have counted [but] a taunting foul is always treated as a dead-ball foul, meaning whatever happened during the play counts, and the foul is enforced on the next play, which would be the kickoff," Blandino said. "In college, this action would take back the touchdown."
Blandino said he is sure the rule is something the competition committee will look at in the offseason.
Seahawks coach Pete Carroll said Wednesday he is 100 percent against the idea of taking a touchdown away from a team if a player is flagged for taunting on the play.
"I think that's a terrible thing to do," Carroll said. "I think it puts too much pressure on the officials to change the game like that. I think that would be terrible to ask on a back judge to decide if he should take away a touchdown in a game. That should not be part of what an official has to do."
The competition committee is a group of eight coaches and executives who review rules each year, discuss and debate them, and present them to ownership at the owners' meeting in March. Rams coach Jeff Fisher is a member of the committee.
Other members of the committee include: Atlanta Falcons executive Rich McKay, Dallas Cowboys executive Stephen Jones, Cincinnati Bengals coach Marvin Lewis, New York Giants co-owner John Mara, Green Bay Packers executive Mark Murphy, Baltimore Ravens general manager Ozzie Newsome, Houston Texans general manager Rick Smith and Pittsburgh Steelers coach Mike Tomlin.
Tate apologized Monday night after the Seahawks were penalized 15 yards for his taunting penalty.
"That was immature of me. Hurt my team. I've gotta stay composed. ... Act like I've been there before," Tate said. "I gotta apologize to our special teams. I put them in an awkward situation, but more happy to get up and learn from it and move forward."
Carroll indicated...-10-30-2013, 05:13 PM -
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OK, you guys...it's perfectly obvious that Ray Rhodes is the most idiotic defensive coordinator in the history of the NFL. So can someone please tell Martz to save some of this for next week? :confused:-11-14-2004, 10:49 AM -
This has been bugging me for a few weeks now.
A few years ago the NFL instituted a rule that no longer allowed kickers to have access to the balls they would be kicking in a game before the game started. They applied a K stamp to the kicking ball. From my recollection it was because the NFl wanted more parody in the league, to make the last minute kicks more exciting because of a slicker and more wild ball.
So why have they now instituted this new rule where the QB and the equipment manager can scuff, wear in, have sex with balls before the games?
I do not understand why the NFL would make one rule increasing parody then just two or three years later add a rule making it easier for qb's to hang onto the ball and thus less parody.
Please weigh in and straighten me out.
:\-08-30-2006, 12:47 AM
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