NFL Offseason – The NFL handed a few necessary rule modifications on the homeowners’ conferences at this time, together with the return of the third QB rule and flex scheduling for Thursday nights.
The third quarterback rule is a response to the 49ers working out of quarterbacks within the NFC Championship Recreation. The emergency quarterback must be a participant on the 53-man roster, not a apply squad participant elevated for that week’s recreation. Nevertheless, the third quarterback turns into an additional energetic participant. He can solely are available if the workforce loses its first two quarterbacks on account of harm or disqualification. If one of many different quarterbacks is cleared to return to the sport, the emergency quarterback should be faraway from the sport.
What’s ironic is that the 49ers had three quarterbacks on the energetic roster for the NFC Championship Recreation! The third was Jimmy Garoppolo. So even with this rule, they’d not have had an emergency quarterback accessible until that they had put a fourth quarterback on their energetic roster.
Relating to Thursday flexing: The league will have the ability to swap Thursday and Sunday video games with no less than 28 days’ discover from the league workplace, solely in Weeks 13-17. No workforce will have the ability to play greater than two Thursday video games, or have a couple of recreation flexed from Sunday to Thursday greater than as soon as. Have enjoyable altering your resort reservations for that one week if you plan on going to Vegas on your favourite workforce’s Thursday evening recreation with the Raiders after which it will get moved to Sunday…
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— Ian Rapoport (@RapSheet) May 22, 2023
A rule to vary kickoffs in order that any kickoff fair-caught inside the 25-yard line can be introduced out to the 25 was tabled till tomorrow. This can be a horrible rule.
I do not like this rule as a result of the kickoff mainly turns into pointless. Amongst different issues, it eliminates strategic quick kicking. Additionally I do not prefer it for egocentric functions, it can utterly screw with the baselines for my particular groups scores. https://t.co/vqtVrp9tMi
— Aaron Schatz 🏈 (@FO_ASchatz) May 22, 2023
