i thought the play was JV, and i dont like the Jets.

 

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I don't see what the big deal is mainly because this was done so far from the field of play. If they Jets were 'cheating' in forming a wall on their own bench 5 yards off the field, then the gunner was most definitely 'cheating' by leaving the field of play to gain an advantage over the defense in the first place. Why on earth are the gunners allowed to run up the sidelines that far off the field in the first place?

That gunner was much further off the field than the wall and the wall forced him to come back to the field quicker than he wanted. If nothing else, the wall was funneling him back into the field of play where I think he should be playing the game anyway. I would think that there would have been a penalty if the defense 'shoved him' out of bounds 10 yards. While possible, that seems awful excessive for being pushed out of bounds.

Maybe its because I don't care about either team involved that I don't really care about this wall thing.

Again though, actively tripping the guy with his knee is wrong. But think of this, had he tripped the guy and he gotten back up and kept running, no one would have said a thing about this.

 

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Five yards, come on. Watch it again that is maybe two yards off the field of play at most. To say he has no right out there is ignorant. Let me put two guy on you and have them both push you toward the sideline and lets see what happens to you. If the gunner is staying out of bounds too long let the refs handle it by throwing a flag, because there are rules to restrict that. But dont be using an approach saying they are clear way from the field of play, they were not that far away from the boundry.


I just watched it again and I would say they were probably only a yard out of the field of play, maybe 1.25 yards out. Not far at all, and the runner did appear to be following NFL rules.

 

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