Why was that nota hold on that WR?
- Thread starter shsdawg
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You haven't been paying any damn attention the past five years if you don't think so. As long as your hands are inside on the chest, you can hold the jersey. Our receivers do it every single time. It's the same thing on the line. If you hands come outside to the shoulder pad on anywhere near the back you are going to get call. Letter of the law I don't know but it's how the game is being played and I have never seen the refs call a hold with the hands inside on the chest.
it was explained to you below.. when you keep your hands inside, you USUALLY don't get called for it.. if your arms extend, you normally DO get called for it.. let a guy hold the jersey with his hands inside and the defender gets his shoulders turned so the guy has to extend his arms and the hold gets exposed.. it gets called (almost) every time
Where that was called. I've seen the receivers doing the exact same thing we saw in the Auburn game all day. Not a single call. So you feel free to sit there thinking your right but in the real world of football the refs aren't calling what you think is a penalty. So obviously the refs are agreeing with me.
I wasn't arguing the letter of the rule, I'm just saying in the last four years of watching football that it seems to be the standard way to block and I've never seen it called. In fact, I've heard ESPN talk about it several times saying, "as long as you keep your hands inside you are ok, but if they slip to the shoulder you will draw a flag."
I don't doubt the rule book doesn't allow it, but it's how all the receivers are being trained to block and obviously the refs are, as a group, not calling it.
I don't doubt the rule book doesn't allow it, but it's how all the receivers are being trained to block and obviously the refs are, as a group, not calling it.