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Originally Posted by Camron Rust
The NBA has explicitly modified rules with the purpose of increasing scoring...targeting their viewing audiences wishes. I don't think the NFL has necessarily done so to the same degree. (I don't watch baseball so I can't comment there). Some of the NFL football rules actually are counter to increased scoring (e.g., 2 feet down vs 1 foot down on a sideline reception...making it more difficult to advance the ball).
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Passing interference rules, penalty enforcements (automatic first downs), illegal contact rules (automatic first downs and does not apply at the other levels at all), hitting defenseless players, roughing the passer rules and interpretations, tackle box classification for throwing the ball away, timing rules like 2 minute warning and I could name a lot of other things that are totally different from the NF and NCAA level that are allowed at the NFL level. One PI call can give you more yards than any other penalty and often is debated when they are called. The Brady Rule was to keep the starting QB in the game for low hits that took their knees out. That was not done just for safety as those rules do not apply at all in HS or college. A sideline catch is a minimal issue to scoring than I can get 50 yards on a PI call on a scoring drive. There are 300 plus rules differences between HS and pro and 200 plus for NCAA to pro and most are to allow certain actions that would allow more scoring either directly or indirectly. And you might have noticed I did not talk about helmet hits or other issues the media focuses on all the time.
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Originally Posted by Camron Rust
The indictment is more about the NBA as a league and not the officials. I have no doubt that the officials are doing a great job calling the game as they're hired to do. The league just has a different goal in how they want the game called...and the officials do the job they're hired to do.
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So does the NFL and so does MLB. Do you think the DH rule is so that scoring is not higher and to keep players that cannot keep up in the field around? Even hockey has rules that allowed for more movement and more penalties because scoring at one time was at the rate of soccer and they changed rules to make these things happen. The NBA is not the only pro league that has rules
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