AllBuffs | Unofficial fan site for the University of Colorado at Boulder Athletics programs
This is a sample guest message. Register a free account today to become a member! Once signed in, you'll be able to participate on this site by adding your own topics and posts, as well as connect with other members through your own private inbox!
-
Prime Time. Prime Time. Its a new era for Colorado football. Consider signing up for a club membership! For $20/year, you can get access to all the special features at Allbuffs, including club member only forums, dark mode, avatars and best of all no ads ! But seriously, please sign up so that we can pay the bills. No one earns money here, and we can use your $20 to keep this hellhole running. You can sign up for a club membership by navigating to your account in the upper right and clicking on "Account Upgrades". Make it happen!
Offensive Pass Interference / Pick Plays
- Thread starter Hank
- Start date
Junction
Club Member
You probably understand the rule, it's just that it's rarely enforced. Offenses are designed to "rub" defenders, or "create traffic", or whatever you want to call it. Basically, it's all pick plays, but it has very rarely been enforced.
At what point can you lay the guy out? When the ball is in the air? After it has been caught? I don't know the rule.
Junction
Club Member
After it's been caught. Impeding a defender when the ball is in the air is supposed to be offensive interference...
nfl only... there is no illegal contact in college
hm, wasn't aware of that. Which brings up the question: why don't we see even more pick plays? Or, maybe that's why offensive pass interference isn't called very often on pick plays: in the league, the pick is pretty much always illegal, but in college, the ref has to see if the ball is in the air before he can call it.
College doesn't differentiate. It's still a penalty. Pass interference on the offense starts when the ball is snapped rather than when the ball is in the air. Pick plays are not legal in college.