All coaches know that if you pat a sliding player on the back, the referees are more apt to give him a few extra inches (feet) after the touch. If you are talking about the inches of the game and not safety you certainly would want your defensive player cremating Rodgers to physically knock his body backwards. On a face first slide you are moving forward. To me this is rather interesting because unlike the feet first slide, and to go along with the "down or not" ambiguity, we also have an issue with the spot of the ball. The referees were smarter than Rodgers in both cases and declared that he declared himself down. So Rodgers being the smart QB he is tried to use a loophole to gain protection and then get back up. This wasn't meant to be a dead ball, however to keep up with player safety and the horribly vulnerable position a player is in (head facing the defense, laying on the ground), NFL referees have in almost all cases this year declared the player as giving himself up when the QB slides head first (I simply can't remember a non-QB sliding head first that wasn't touched - please comment if there is one). Now the other side of this is when the QB slides head first. This is unarguable since there are 20 late hits a year that happen far from the runner beginning his slide but close to when the runners body hits the ground. The runner is down as soon as he starts his slide, which affords him extra protection from being hit. The rule says "the instant a runner touches the ground". Letter d - addressing feet first sliding - isn't even how it is called in games. So the "correct" answer at this point in time is that there is a rule that clearly states that a player is down at the beginning of their slide when going feet first (the NFL hasn't spotted this right all year and gives QBs 1-2 yards extra per slide). To make matters worse 80-90% of the slides are by QBs. And this is only an NFL problem, as other leagues the knee down is a down play. Nobody can hit you because maybe you did give yourself up and then if they don't hit you, you can get up and start running again. Not only is there a large amount of ambiguity on what it means to give oneself up, but there is a no frills circumvention to this rule - slide head first. what a mess the NFL has gotten themselves into. One of the times he got up and tried to run more. If you watched the Packers game last night (11/20/16 vs Redskins) you will note that Rodgers went head first twice and both times he was declared to have given himself up. The rules committee will certainly address the shortcomings of this rule in the offseason. This answer has the rule cited but you can look at the rule for 20 seconds and figure out that it is missing a lot of clarity. This is a comment but just too long of one to go in comments. The contact is unavoidable, it is not a foul unless the defender commits some other act, such as helmet-to-helmet contact or by driving his forearm or shoulder into the head or neck are of the runner. If a defender has already committed himself, and This does not mean that all contact by a defender is illegal. With anything other than his hands or his feet ĭefenders are required to treat a sliding runner as they would aĪ defender must pull up when a runner begins a feet-first slide. The ball is dead the instant the runner touches the ground When a runner declares himself down by sliding feet first on the Rule 7, Section 2 of the NFL Rulebook describe a "Dead Ball."Īrticle 1 describes when an official shall declare the ball dead. Not if the defender has "committed himself, and the contact is unavoidable." Second, if it is dead on the slide, is there a penalty for hitting the QB after the slide? If the QB slides feet-first, then yes, the play is dead. First, is the play dead after a QB slides, regardless of whether he is hit?
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