Patriots getting gifts

[NINEster]

BTW, I think the NFL should review many of these questionable rules each offseason, esp. without the prompting of controversial calls.

For the league's benefit, it will be seen as trying to do the right thing instead of indirectly admitting mistake.

The NFL I think was ok with implementing the "Navorro Bowman Rule" because the 49ers did get a divine intervention turnover on the very next play. But had they not, the league never would have been able to save face and change it.

 

[Osprey]

The rule changes made for Legacy Teams are endless.

Have you ever seen a rule change because of something negative that happened to the Seahawks?

The return of Instant Replay post Vinny's helmet touchdown?

 

[Sports Hernia]

The rule changes made for Legacy Teams are endless.

Have you ever seen a rule change because of something negative that happened to the Seahawks?

The return of Instant Replay post Vinny's helmet touchdown?

The football on the jets logo of the helmet crossed the line, so Touchdown!
- The NFL

 

[Pape]

Look at the Brady rule. Lots of QBs have had their knee destroyed, (Carson Palmer when he was kicking Stealer butt in the playoffs), yet no rule change until it happens to Tom Brady.

You don't know what you are talking about.

The rule about low hits on a QB, unless a player happened to be blocked in the the QB was passed because of the low hit on Carson Palmer by Kimo Van Oelhoffen in 2006. The G.O.A.T. was hurt in 2008, and the Brady Rule was passed in 2009 - and the Brady rule was just an expansion of the Carson Palmer rule specifying that a player could not lunge into the knees of a qb.

 

[Maulbert]

Look at the Roy Williams (Dallas Cowboys) rule. Horse collar was not a rule until it happened to a Cowboy.

Actually, that rule is called that in reference to Cowboys Safety Roy Williams, not their wide receiver. Safety Roy Williams was notorious for tackling that way. After the rule was implemented, he was half the player he used to be. That rule killed his game. He also was suspended for his continual violation of the rule.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Horse-collar_tackle