As for the illegal contact - it should stay, otherwise the NFL would have 15-yard penalties every time a defender breathes heavily on a receiver. It's a good penalty that only Patriots fans seem to disfavor (probably because Polian was key in convincing the league to enforce it since it had been a rule for some time). There needs to be an offensive illegal contact as well, though. It isn't fair for defenders to nudge receivers and only incur a 5-yard automatic 1st down penalty while receivers get tagged with 15-yard PI penalties. I suspect that's part of the reason receiver push-offs are called so infrequently. At least with an offensive illegal contact that is called regularly, receivers would be less likely to push off as much.

I could live with that as long as the illegal contact extended to the offense as well as the defense I think thats the hypocrisy of the situation i'm of the mindset let them play physical, I understand the defenseless reciever rule to an extent but we don't outside of the Warren Sapp rule extend the same courtesy to the defense they are far less protected by the rules.

hawkeyefan6 -

There IS a Women's Pro League..

Not so sure you want nudity there, dude. Think O-line/D-line.   

O4F

Sure, real impossible.  Hey, they're calling a half back dive up the middle.  Let's blitz the middle.  That must have taken an eternity.  How slow are you?

Err....

Aren't we talking about the Patriots filming DEFENSIVE signals?  Or are you just 'changing the channel' so to speak?

Tee hee hee.....

"The hand siglans would then be interpreted from the video TAPING....."

So you're gonna tell me that the signals are taped, handed to a lackey who then runs up to the booth, hands it to the defensive co-ordinator, who puts it in a machine, rewinds it to the appropriate play, figures it out, then mics in to... oh I dunno, Vrabel's helmet what the play is going to be, and Vrabel communicates an audible to the rest of the defense on what play is going to come.  Brilliant.  Just brilliant.

One question though - what's stopping the offense from running that play in the time that the defense is running around to counter it?

Who's the slow one?

no comment.

Just what I expected.

Did you hear the Orioles actuall PROVIDED Miguel Tejada with performance enhancing drugs?  Seriously!

The Ravens even went so far as to provide Ray Lewis an alibi for that murder he committed.

Wow.  Making up stories sure is fun.  Maybe I'll try that.

It's a message board not a court of law.

I heard Teddy Bruschi hides HIV infected syringes in his pads and then sticks other team's players with them.

This is fun.