{"id":2212,"date":"2009-03-21T12:01:24","date_gmt":"2009-03-21T17:01:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.jetnation.com\/?p=2212"},"modified":"2019-11-28T06:49:19","modified_gmt":"2019-11-28T10:49:19","slug":"2009-nfl-rule-changes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/miletestsite.com\/jets\/2009\/03\/21\/2009-nfl-rule-changes\/","title":{"rendered":"2009 Proposed NFL Rule Changes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>NFL.com has an <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nfl.com\/news\/story?id=09000d5d80f5307a&amp;template=with-video-with-comments&amp;confirm=true\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">article on the rule changes<\/a> for 2009.\u00a0 There was a push within the league to change the overtime rules but they say that isn&#8217;t happening.\u00a0 Overtime won&#8217;t change but owners are expected to discuss several player safety changes at the owner meetings which start tomorrow.<\/p>\n<p>Some highlights:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>A defender who hits a defenseless receiver in the head with his helmet or any part of his body will draw a 15-yard unsportsmanlike-conduct penalty and be subject to a fine from the NFL.<\/p>\n<p>If a pass rusher, who is blocked into the quarterback&#8217;s legs or into the ground on the way to the quarterback, continues to run or drives forcefully into the player, he&#8217;ll draw a 15-yard unsportsmanlike-conduct penalty and be subject to a fine.<\/p>\n<p>In addition, the committee is recommending that instant replay &#8212; which currently covers certain fumbles &#8212; be expanded to include all fumble plays, including the &#8220;tuck rule,&#8221; whereby a quarterback is deemed to have thrown an incomplete pass rather than fumbled if his arm is moving forward.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>You can discuss these proposed changes <a href=\"https:\/\/forums.jetnation.com\/\">in our forums<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NFL.com has an article on the rule changes for 2009.\u00a0 There was a push within the league to change the overtime rules but they say that isn&#8217;t happening.\u00a0 Overtime won&#8217;t change but owners are expected to discuss several player safety changes at the owner meetings which start tomorrow. Some highlights: A defender who hits a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-2212","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-featured-editorials"},"acf":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/peLffi-zG","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/miletestsite.com\/jets\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2212","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/miletestsite.com\/jets\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/miletestsite.com\/jets\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/miletestsite.com\/jets\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/miletestsite.com\/jets\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2212"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/miletestsite.com\/jets\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2212\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":47370,"href":"https:\/\/miletestsite.com\/jets\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2212\/revisions\/47370"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/miletestsite.com\/jets\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2212"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/miletestsite.com\/jets\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2212"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/miletestsite.com\/jets\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2212"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}