MJ Drew refusing to score a TD discussion

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November 16, 2009

In the NFL, if a player falls on the ground, he can still get up and run. If a player falls down and no one touches him, the clock keeps running.

Hypothetically, if two teams wanted to ‘boycott’ a football game, they could run a play, have a player fall on the ground with the ball, have no one touch him and run out the entire 12 minutes of the first quarter while this player lays on the ground and does nothing (would take both teams to be in on this)

Now, i know sports leagues don’t like players making a mockery of their sport, so i’d imagine they will frown on guys trying on purpose to not score.

Do we know the parameters of the ‘delay of game’ rule in the NFL?

If Jones Drew layed on the 1 yard line and the Jets refused to touch or tackle him, could Jones-Drew have been penalized for delay of game?

All the NFL would have to do is institute some kind of rule that if a player stops his own forward progress and it not touched by the other team, he either has to get up and attempt to move forward, or he gets immediately whistled for delay of game.

This would be a nice rule they can institute. If a defense knew a player wasn’t attempting to score, they can just leave him be and that player gets whistled for a penalty for ‘delaying the game’

That would curtail all this nonsense of players who are not trying to score on purpose. That stuff makes a mockery of the game.

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