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Message: [QUOTE="Zelda Zonk, post: 2975433, member: 966"] I'm surprised there isn't more conversation about this. Do you agree with the new rule? Frankly, i don't understand it. Over the past decade(?), officials allowed more and more 'handfighting' between receivers and DBs. So much so that, at this point, on every contested pass reception, there is some manner of push-off or holding on one side, the other, or both. How the heck do you now make that a reviewable call? Refs will have to go under the hood more often, to make subjective decisions on which player touched more forcibly? With a greater effect on the play? Who touched[I] last[/I]? Coaches will have to use replay more often, and decide whether it's worth it to waste a replay flag on an 8 yard catch/incompletion, because that might just continue a drive... I thought fans wanted fewer stoppages for replay and more 'empirical' rulings, not more subjectivity. [/QUOTE]