NFL refs making offensive offside calls during crucial moments

Why are there so many penalties on offensive gamers exhibiting up within the NFL as of late, and why do all of them seemingly come on the most vital instances?

Final night time, Jason Kelce’s false begin successfully price the Philadelphia Eagles the sport in opposition to the Seattle Seahawks.

On Saturday, Denver Broncos offensive lineman Quinn Meinerz was offside on a fourth-and-goal play within the third quarter that negated a landing.

And allow us to not neglect final week, when Kadarius Toney was offside and price the Kansas Metropolis Chiefs the sport in opposition to the Buffalo Payments.

“I feel nearly all people has acknowledged that the officers are completely appropriate,” NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell mentioned on Dec 13. “That’s their job to name it a foul … I feel it exhibits you the way tough it’s to do their job.”

Kelce mentioned that he had been warned beforehand about shifting the ball ahead for years on a number of events, however nonetheless was in a position to get away with it.

Again in October, Professional Soccer Discuss wrote:

“Kelce mentioned that sooner or later, he plans to elucidate to the officers that he strains up along with his non-snapping hand on the bottom for the quarterback sneak as a result of it helps him to get decrease, and that they shouldn’t assume in the event that they see an errant hand within the impartial zone that it’s a penalty.”

Final season, there have been 284 offensive offside calls throughout the league. To date there are solely 224 this season, however the development of those calls the previous couple of weeks might push that quantity up. These calls are uncommon, however it could’t be a coincidence that there are two inside two weeks of one another, proper?

Others suppose there ought to be rule modifications, like Peyton Manning.

“I feel they need to change that rule,” Manning mentioned to ESPN’s Pardon the Interruption after Toney’s offside name. “In the event that they’re going to name that, simply blow that play useless so we don’t see what would have occurred.”