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Rule change: This will penalize teams handing off the football forward on a read-option, for example, or any other running play a penalty. Handoffs will have to be made next to or behind the quarterback, not in front of.
This is stupid.
2023 approved playing rules
Rule change: Players can use zero ("0") as a jersey number; kickers and punters can use any jersey number between 0-49 and 90-99.
Rule change: Referees will adjust play clock following an instant replay reversal the same way they do following other stoppages. Before, players would have to signal back to the officials to request more time on the play clock in such situations.
Rule change: The replay official can automatically review a close play on a failed fourth-down attempt. This will save team's a challenge if it's a close call on fourth down. The rule change may speed up the game since the replay official can review the play immediately.
Rule change: A launch, which is a personal foul (15-yard penalty), is now if a player leaves one or both feet to make a tackle.
Rule change: If a player is called for tripping, the penalty will result in 15 yards and an automatic first down.
Rule change: This will penalize teams handing off the football forward on a read-option, for example, or any other running play a penalty. Handoffs will have to be made next to or behind the quarterback, not in front of.
Rule change: This will make those acts listed above count for a loss of a down at the spot of the foul, just like an illegal forward pass.
Rule change: For example, if the offense commits a holding penalty, that will no longer lead to an untimed, additional down.
Rule change: Removes the words the "butt, ram, and spear" from Article 8 and adds those actions into the penalty for "Impermissible Use of the Helmet." 2023 approved bylaws
Rule change: This will allow teams to add these players to their rosters earlier in the week ahead of the playoffs, making them eligible to play for their teams.
Rule change: This will allow teams for strength of victory to be the second tiebreaker for postseason seeding after the head-to-head tiebreaker. The second tiebreaker was previously conference record. It appears the league had a typo in the press release they sent out regarding this rule.
Rule change: This will allow for the league and teams to better account for their postseason roster spots and to clarify a new time to finalize playoff rosters.
This is stupid.
2023 approved playing rules
- Amendment to Rule 5, Section 1, Article 2, proposed by the Philadelphia Eagles
Rule change: Players can use zero ("0") as a jersey number; kickers and punters can use any jersey number between 0-49 and 90-99.
- Amendment to Rule 4, Section 6, Article 3 and Section 7, Article 4, proposed by the Los Angeles Chargers
Rule change: Referees will adjust play clock following an instant replay reversal the same way they do following other stoppages. Before, players would have to signal back to the officials to request more time on the play clock in such situations.
- Amendment to Rule 15, Section 1, Article 2, proposed by the Houston Texans
Rule change: The replay official can automatically review a close play on a failed fourth-down attempt. This will save team's a challenge if it's a close call on fourth down. The rule change may speed up the game since the replay official can review the play immediately.
- To change the definition of a launch, proposed by the Competition Committee
Rule change: A launch, which is a personal foul (15-yard penalty), is now if a player leaves one or both feet to make a tackle.
- To make tripping a personal foul, proposed by the Competition Committee
Rule change: If a player is called for tripping, the penalty will result in 15 yards and an automatic first down.
- To make handing the football forward a penalty like an illegal forward pass, proposed by the Competition Committee
Rule change: This will penalize teams handing off the football forward on a read-option, for example, or any other running play a penalty. Handoffs will have to be made next to or behind the quarterback, not in front of.
- To make the penalty for illegal punts, drop kicks, or place kicks the same as an illegal forward pass, proposed by the Competition Committee
Rule change: This will make those acts listed above count for a loss of a down at the spot of the foul, just like an illegal forward pass.
- To prevent the offense from benefitting with an extra play at the end of half because of an offensive penalty, proposed by the Competition Committee
Rule change: For example, if the offense commits a holding penalty, that will no longer lead to an untimed, additional down.
- To clarify the use of a helmet against an opponent, proposed by the Competition Committee
Rule change: Removes the words the "butt, ram, and spear" from Article 8 and adds those actions into the penalty for "Impermissible Use of the Helmet." 2023 approved bylaws
- To change the claiming period to Monday for players who are waived on the Friday and Saturday of the last week of the regular season, proposed by the Competition Committee
Rule change: This will allow teams to add these players to their rosters earlier in the week ahead of the playoffs, making them eligible to play for their teams.
- To insert strength of victory as the second tiebreaker for awarding contracts, proposed by the Competition Committee
Rule change: This will allow teams for strength of victory to be the second tiebreaker for postseason seeding after the head-to-head tiebreaker. The second tiebreaker was previously conference record. It appears the league had a typo in the press release they sent out regarding this rule.
- To adjust the rules for postseason signings to account for standard elevations rule; to freeze postseason rosters at 4 p.m. ET on the Wednesday following the last week of the regular season
Rule change: This will allow for the league and teams to better account for their postseason roster spots and to clarify a new time to finalize playoff rosters.
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