Western_77
Footballguy
Anyone know the official rule on when a defensive player goes offside and it's whistled down immediately vs the play being allowed to continue and the QB can launch it downfield because it's a "free play"? It used to be that it would only be whistled down if the defensive player made contact with someone or if he had an "unimpeded path to the QB". Now it seems that the play is rarely allowed to continue even if there's no contact or open path to QB.....then everyone looks confused as to why they stopped the play. Then there are times when they do let the play continue, but I don't know what's different between that play and a play that they blow the whistle.