192 sats \ 7 replies \ @Turdinthepunchbowl 9 Jul 2023 \ on: Stacker Sports- Meta Takeover-Day 5 meta
First reaction is NFL needs to reduce Defensive Pass Interference and stop with the idiotic roughing the passer calls. It's a violent game, everyone involved knows it. If you try to take too much out of the game it just isn't watchable.
Second, they need to bring physicality back to the NBA, too many hand check/tick tack fouls that slow down the pace of game and piss off viewers. Watching Harden shoot 30 free throws is boring. Bad Boy Pistons went out there trying to kill people every day, it's pretty soft now.
Siggy and I were just talking about Pass interference calls in NFL. Let me know your thoughts on the rule change I proposed.
Totally agree regarding NBA. The other thing I would like to see change in NBA is using fouls as an advantage. Maybe a 5 second run off if you foul to stop the clock or something. Fouling shouldn't be to your benefit.
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100%, Pass Interference should be a 15 yard penalty. There needs to be a mechanism for egregious "open field" penalties, the risk there being that is just another subjective call made by humans, but I think it's still a better option than what it currently is in the NFL.
Hack a shaq rules and prolonging the game are frustrating in basketball. The last 2 mins taking 30+ minutes makes me so angry.
Baseballs recent rule changes have been great in my opinion, as well.
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Yeah, I really like the new baseball rules. Just need an automated strike zone now and maybe a revisit of mound visit rules. I don't like coaches coming out to talk strategy in the middle of the inning.
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To that point, take paper out of baseball! The whole game plan and stuff is typed out and each player knows positioning and strategy/positioning for each batter, it's annoying. It's less impactful now that he shift is banned, but it takes away from the athleticism and natural intuition of the players in my opinion. Scouting reports and meetings happen all the time, make the players remember vs having a cheat sheet on them at all time.
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Totally agree. I see players looking at Ipads after every at bat. That can't possibly be a benefit for most guys. It's hard enough to use a round bat to hit a round ball coming at you at 100mph or with ridiculous spin without thinking my hip rotation was off by 5degrees in my last at bat or I dropped my elbow 3 inches too close to my chest. They are the best in the world but they are humans, not robots.
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I think you all would enjoy this video about how changes in how rules are called has radically changed the NBA, without the actual rules changing very much.
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Agreed!
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