12 men on the field

In addition, the interpretation of the rule was changed for this year, per Mike Pereira.

His foot has to be down. That is right. If his foot is in the air he is not out. That is a new interpretation.

“@omalkm: @MikePereira mike would you overturn that call?”>>yep. After slowing it down you could see the foot wasn't down.

From the school of what if? I could see where this is a problem, the QB is gonna pass the ball or the play is gonna go that way, whats he gonna do let the play clock run down waiting for the guy to get out of the way or waste a TO?

Kinda like 12 men in the huddle on offense is an automatic penalty. Look for more quick snaps on plays like this, get the quick 5 yards

The rule says the player must have both feet down out of bounds. He didn't. Great challenge by the packers staff!

Wayne and Larry said on the broadcast it was ARod who noticed it and got MM to throw the challenge flag.

The rule as it stands now is this. If a Defense has 12 men on the field and a snap is immenent, they officials are to whistle the play dead. The play last night should have never happened.

It all came about after the Giants had 12 men on the field in the SB last year against NE with 44 secomds left. The Pat's ran a play the wasted 8 seconds. It cost NY 5 yards. In theory, NY could have put 25 guys on defense and lost 5 yards per play but eventually killed the clock. That's why the "immenent" rule was put in.

NY used the "injured player" rule during the season. They put 12 guys on the field to stop a hail mary because it would cost them 5 yards and blow 10 seconds. Can't fault them. That's using the rules in your favor.

I don't know if Buddy Ryan was the originator, but he had a series of "Polish Defense" plays that took advantage of those quirks in the rulebook

http://smartfootball.com/defen...lish-goalline-tactic

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Maylock on NFL Network didn't know the rule & insisted that because the bear player had his foot in the air, it shouldn't have been a penalty. I didn't think what he was saying made sense.

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Originally posted by FLPACKER:
I didn't think what he was saying made sense.

Mayock didn't make sense the whole game... gawd he is bad.