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The quarterback slide to end a play needs to be changed (1 Viewer)

Honestly the fix is probably just eliminating giving yourself up. You'll see less hits like that, because fewer QBs will take off. That or far more severe penalties. It was a joke that was offsetting calls. I'd be ok with just giving the Jags the ball 1st and goal from the 1 in that situation. Doesn't matter where on the field the play took place. If we treated clear and obvious cheap shots as seriously as endzone PI, maybe that would stop it?

This was one of the dirtier hits I've seen in the last 20 years. Al-Shair should be suspended indefinitely and probably fined his entire salary. Also should be on extremely thin ice when he comes back. 1 more play like that, and lifetime ban. Vontaze Burfict would have called that a dirty play.
 
Trevor Lawrence got nearly killed on a slide today. They need to change that - can't we have them just raise their hand fair catch style? Play is dead as soon as they do?

Whatever, there has to be a better way.

The play
Cheap shots are always going to happen, it doesn't matter what you do. The NFL simply needs to make the penalty so severe for a hit like Lawrence took that takes the player out of the league for 1+ years. In many cases, the punishment does not match the crime. I say in cases like this, make the punishment even more severe than the crime. At least these idiots might think twice.
 
Trevor Lawrence got nearly killed on a slide today. They need to change that - can't we have them just raise their hand fair catch style? Play is dead as soon as they do?

Whatever, there has to be a better way.

The play
Cheap shots are always going to happen, it doesn't matter what you do. The NFL simply needs to make the penalty so severe for a hit like Lawrence took that takes the player out of the league for 1+ years. In many cases, the punishment does not match the crime. I say in cases like this, make the punishment even more severe than the crime. At least these idiots might think twice.
That's true but you can minimize reduce the opportunities for them to happen.

I think the hammer is doing to fall on Al-Shair.

It was infuriating to see him get up with an air of "What? What did I do?"
 
Trevor Lawrence got nearly killed on a slide today. They need to change that - can't we have them just raise their hand fair catch style? Play is dead as soon as they do?

Whatever, there has to be a better way.

The play

The play is dead as soon as he starts the slide. I'm not sure if signaling a fair catch would end it any faster or stop a hit like the one Lawrence took... the defender would have been just as aware that the play was over and decided to continue with his hit.
 
Trevor Lawrence got nearly killed on a slide today. They need to change that - can't we have them just raise their hand fair catch style? Play is dead as soon as they do?

Whatever, there has to be a better way.

The play

The play is dead as soon as he starts the slide. I'm not sure if signaling a fair catch would end it any faster or stop a hit like the one Lawrence took... the defender would have been just as aware that the play was over and decided to continue with his hit.
But it's not always very obvious when the slide starts. I'm not sure the hand signal is the answer but it's a more obvious sign anyway,IMO.
 
Trevor Lawrence got nearly killed on a slide today. They need to change that - can't we have them just raise their hand fair catch style? Play is dead as soon as they do?

Whatever, there has to be a better way.

The play

The play is dead as soon as he starts the slide. I'm not sure if signaling a fair catch would end it any faster or stop a hit like the one Lawrence took... the defender would have been just as aware that the play was over and decided to continue with his hit.
Didn't Allen use the fake slide in the playoffs last year?
 
Trevor Lawrence got nearly killed on a slide today. They need to change that - can't we have them just raise their hand fair catch style? Play is dead as soon as they do?

Whatever, there has to be a better way.

The play

The play is dead as soon as he starts the slide. I'm not sure if signaling a fair catch would end it any faster or stop a hit like the one Lawrence took... the defender would have been just as aware that the play was over and decided to continue with his hit.
But it's not always very obvious when the slide starts. I'm not sure the hand signal is the answer but it's a more obvious sign anyway,IMO.

I get it, but Lawrence was already butt on the ground with his head below waist level when he got it. The defender had to go really low to even make contact. It was obvious Lawrence had given himself up. I just think the defender wanted to hit him dirty. I'm not sure if he quickly flashed a raised hand or did anything else to stop, that the defender wouldn't have done what he did anyway. It was a dirty hit. I'm not sure what a player running forward full speed with all his momentum could do to give himself up any clearer or faster than going to the ground as quickly as possible.
 
I don't there's any way for the QB to give himself up that doesn't still allow for a cheap shot if the defender is dirty enough. Just disincentive it with very long (costly) suspensions.


I've said it before, and going all the way back to Suh's worst days, the penalty for a dirty hit that results in injury should be a suspension as long as the injured player is out. Kind of like how I feel the legal penalty for perjury should be a prison sentence as long as the crime at issue (perjury where a life sentence is at stake? Life sentence!).
 
I don't there's any way for the QB to give himself up that doesn't still allow for a cheap shot if the defender is dirty enough. Just disincentive it with very long (costly) suspensions.

Specific to that play, but if Lawrence just dives forward rather than sliding, not only does he protect himself better than sliding but he gets the first down as well
 
I don't there's any way for the QB to give himself up that doesn't still allow for a cheap shot if the defender is dirty enough. Just disincentive it with very long (costly) suspensions.

Specific to that play, but if Lawrence just dives forward rather than sliding, not only does he protect himself better than sliding but he gets the first down as well

Not anymore. Head first is now placed where the slide starts. Been that way for about three or four years now.
 
I don't there's any way for the QB to give himself up that doesn't still allow for a cheap shot if the defender is dirty enough. Just disincentive it with very long (costly) suspensions.

Specific to that play, but if Lawrence just dives forward rather than sliding, not only does he protect himself better than sliding but he gets the first down as well

Not anymore. Head first is now placed where the slide starts. Been that way for about three or four years now.

Who said anything about sliding? I am saying dive for the first down. If Anthony Richardson is on a bootleg from the opposition 5, has an angle on a defensive back, and dives to the end zone and breaks the plane, that is not a touchdown?
 
I don't there's any way for the QB to give himself up that doesn't still allow for a cheap shot if the defender is dirty enough. Just disincentive it with very long (costly) suspensions.

Specific to that play, but if Lawrence just dives forward rather than sliding, not only does he protect himself better than sliding but he gets the first down as well

Not anymore. Head first is now placed where the slide starts. Been that way for about three or four years now.

Who said anything about sliding? I am saying dive for the first down. If Anthony Richardson is on a bootleg from the opposition 5, has an angle on a defensive back, and dives to the end zone and breaks the plane, that is not a touchdown?

That might be a touchdown. But if you dive head first in the middle of the field, you are deemed to have given yourself up and the spot starts where you began your dive. It happened to Drake Maye just today.

Here, I have to do this every time I tell people this so I have the article at the ready. Since 2018.

Your exact scenario is covered in the article and they assume it will be called from where he begins his slide. I am unsure about that. But in Lawrence’s case, you don’t get that yardage anymore even if you go head first.

 
Well, that's the first I've heard of that rule, which is surprising given it's terrible and might be the worst rule change I've ever heard of
 
Well, that's the first I've heard of that rule, which is surprising given it's terrible and might be the worst rule change I've ever heard of

It’s not technically a rule change. It’s a “point of emphasis” that they kept emphasizing. It’s really a weird sort of sleight of hand thing they did by making it a "point of emphasis" rather than changing a rule. It’s a change in interpretation of what constitutes “giving one’s self up,” I think. Head first dives have qualified as giving yourself up since 2018.

Anyway, that’s just window dressing. You get marked from the beginning now, head first or feet first.
 
Well, I'd love to see the reaction if in the Super Bowl say, Derrick Henry was to lunge into the end zone, break the plane to go ahead on the last play of the game, only for New York to challenge the spot and say by rule he had given himself up at the 2, game is over. Internet would explode worse than it did on that Tebow to Thomas overtime TD to beat the Stealers
 
Hitting a sliding QB should be automatic ejection. Eregious shots like this this should be mandatory 2 games suspension escalating from there. Until they start enforcing real consequences nothing will happen. There's zero football reason to hit the guy. You can't force a fumble because the play's dead the second he started his slide, you're not touching him down because the play's already dead. The only thing to accomplish now is injury and intentional injurious actions should be given the nuclear option, it's the only way to stop them.
 
I don't there's any way for the QB to give himself up that doesn't still allow for a cheap shot if the defender is dirty enough. Just disincentive it with very long (costly) suspensions.

Specific to that play, but if Lawrence just dives forward rather than sliding, not only does he protect himself better than sliding but he gets the first down as well

Not anymore. Head first is now placed where the slide starts. Been that way for about three or four years now.
Not sure I knew that, thank you
 
Trevor Lawrence got nearly killed on a slide today. They need to change that - can't we have them just raise their hand fair catch style? Play is dead as soon as they do?

Whatever, there has to be a better way.

The play

I'll be the devil's advocate on this one. Here is the play. https://x.com/ProFootballDoc/status/1863299207324717539

The defender is attacking at the same time Lawrence starts his slide, which is right at the first down line to gain. It's not helmet to helmet or forearm to helmet and appears Lawrence hits his head on the turf. Not a dirty play and honestly the defender has no choice here with quarterbacks using the fake slide and fake out of bounds run to their advantage. The problem on this play is the defender can't let up because Lawrence is sliding right at the first down flag and his sliding technique sucks because he keeps his head up.
 
Trevor Lawrence got nearly killed on a slide today. They need to change that - can't we have them just raise their hand fair catch style? Play is dead as soon as they do?

Whatever, there has to be a better way.

The play

The play is dead as soon as he starts the slide. I'm not sure if signaling a fair catch would end it any faster or stop a hit like the one Lawrence took... the defender would have been just as aware that the play was over and decided to continue with his hit.
But it's not always very obvious when the slide starts. I'm not sure the hand signal is the answer but it's a more obvious sign anyway,IMO.
These are world class athletes, universally, you see the defender rolling or doing everything to avoid the contact when the QB slides, even mid air. This was flat out dirty, **** that guy. Nothing will change a dirty hit like that. NFL needs to send a message rn. I’d be good with this season and next, but anything less than the rest of this season is a joke.
 
Trevor Lawrence got nearly killed on a slide today. They need to change that - can't we have them just raise their hand fair catch style? Play is dead as soon as they do?

Whatever, there has to be a better way.

The play

I'll be the devil's advocate on this one. Here is the play. https://x.com/ProFootballDoc/status/1863299207324717539

The defender is attacking at the same time Lawrence starts his slide, which is right at the first down line to gain. It's not helmet to helmet or forearm to helmet and appears Lawrence hits his head on the turf. Not a dirty play and honestly the defender has no choice here with quarterbacks using the fake slide and fake out of bounds run to their advantage. The problem on this play is the defender can't let up because Lawrence is sliding right at the first down flag and his sliding technique sucks because he keeps his head up.
Hot take.

These athletes are unbelievably skillful. Watch defenders on most slides, they instantly start rolling mid air or contorting their bodies to avoid delivering a hit, this was the opposite of that. The. He then tries to fight the entire Jaguars team. Message needs to be delivered here.
 
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Trevor Lawrence got nearly killed on a slide today. They need to change that - can't we have them just raise their hand fair catch style? Play is dead as soon as they do?

Whatever, there has to be a better way.

The play

I'll be the devil's advocate on this one. Here is the play. https://x.com/ProFootballDoc/status/1863299207324717539

The defender is attacking at the same time Lawrence starts his slide, which is right at the first down line to gain. It's not helmet to helmet or forearm to helmet and appears Lawrence hits his head on the turf. Not a dirty play and honestly the defender has no choice here with quarterbacks using the fake slide and fake out of bounds run to their advantage. The problem on this play is the defender can't let up because Lawrence is sliding right at the first down flag and his sliding technique sucks because he keeps his head up.
Sorry but that description does not match what we see in that play.

Lawrence is well into his slide and the defender puts the unnecessary in roughness there.
 
The defender is attacking at the same time Lawrence starts his slide, which is right at the first down line to gain. It's not helmet to helmet or forearm to helmet and appears Lawrence hits his head on the turf. Not a dirty play and honestly the defender has no choice here with quarterbacks using the fake slide and fake out of bounds run to their advantage. The problem on this play is the defender can't let up because Lawrence is sliding right at the first down flag and his sliding technique sucks because he keeps his head up.
Nope, he didn't lead with his forearm.


Nope not at all.
 
I don't there's any way for the QB to give himself up that doesn't still allow for a cheap shot if the defender is dirty enough. Just disincentive it with very long (costly) suspensions.

Specific to that play, but if Lawrence just dives forward rather than sliding, not only does he protect himself better than sliding but he gets the first down as well
that’s like saying if the girl wears pants instead of skirt….

that’s was dirty as ****
 
Trevor Lawrence got nearly killed on a slide today. They need to change that - can't we have them just raise their hand fair catch style? Play is dead as soon as they do?

Whatever, there has to be a better way.

The play

I'll be the devil's advocate on this one. Here is the play. https://x.com/ProFootballDoc/status/1863299207324717539

The defender is attacking at the same time Lawrence starts his slide, which is right at the first down line to gain. It's not helmet to helmet or forearm to helmet and appears Lawrence hits his head on the turf. Not a dirty play and honestly the defender has no choice here with quarterbacks using the fake slide and fake out of bounds run to their advantage. The problem on this play is the defender can't let up because Lawrence is sliding right at the first down flag and his sliding technique sucks because he keeps his head up.
your own link supports the forearm to the head, wtf
 
The defender is attacking at the same time Lawrence starts his slide, which is right at the first down line to gain. It's not helmet to helmet or forearm to helmet and appears Lawrence hits his head on the turf. Not a dirty play and honestly the defender has no choice here with quarterbacks using the fake slide and fake out of bounds run to their advantage. The problem on this play is the defender can't let up because Lawrence is sliding right at the first down flag and his sliding technique sucks because he keeps his head up.
What video are you even watching. Lawrence starts sliding at the 47 which kills the play. His butt is on the ground THREE YARDS later before contact is made at nearly the three second mark on the video. The next time your kid is running in glee to greet you coming home from work count to two and a half, dive at her with a forearm shiver to the head, and ask yourself "could I have avoided that if I wanted to knowing I shouldn't be doing it?". The answer might surprise you. Or not.
 
The defender is attacking at the same time Lawrence starts his slide, which is right at the first down line to gain. It's not helmet to helmet or forearm to helmet and appears Lawrence hits his head on the turf. Not a dirty play and honestly the defender has no choice here with quarterbacks using the fake slide and fake out of bounds run to their advantage. The problem on this play is the defender can't let up because Lawrence is sliding right at the first down flag and his sliding technique sucks because he keeps his head up.
What video are you even watching. Lawrence starts sliding at the 47 which kills the play. His butt is on the ground THREE YARDS later before contact is made at nearly the three second mark on the video. The next time your kid is running in glee to greet you coming home from work count to two and a half, dive at her with a forearm shiver to the head, and ask yourself "could I have avoided that if I wanted to knowing I shouldn't be doing it?". The answer might surprise you. Or not.
I’d lay their *** out if they’re trying to get a first down on me. Then stand over top of them and flex.
 
some QBs (Mahomes) abuse it, do the fake out and then gain an extra 15

Caleb Williams decided to stop and juke instead of going out on Thanksgiving Day, but Jack Campbell said nah

the Bears rookie complained about it in his postgame presser....yo dawg, you don't go out or slide, that's on you

plus he didn't go for your knees (as you said), it was a textbook shoulder hit to the thigh/hip area

#whiner
 
Trevor Lawrence got nearly killed on a slide today. They need to change that - can't we have them just raise their hand fair catch style? Play is dead as soon as they do?

Whatever, there has to be a better way.

The play

I'll be the devil's advocate on this one. Here is the play. https://x.com/ProFootballDoc/status/1863299207324717539

The defender is attacking at the same time Lawrence starts his slide, which is right at the first down line to gain. It's not helmet to helmet or forearm to helmet and appears Lawrence hits his head on the turf. Not a dirty play and honestly the defender has no choice here with quarterbacks using the fake slide and fake out of bounds run to their advantage. The problem on this play is the defender can't let up because Lawrence is sliding right at the first down flag and his sliding technique sucks because he keeps his head up.
your own link supports the forearm to the head, wtf
Trevor Lawrence got nearly killed on a slide today. They need to change that - can't we have them just raise their hand fair catch style? Play is dead as soon as they do?

Whatever, there has to be a better way.

The play

I'll be the devil's advocate on this one. Here is the play. https://x.com/ProFootballDoc/status/1863299207324717539

The defender is attacking at the same time Lawrence starts his slide, which is right at the first down line to gain. It's not helmet to helmet or forearm to helmet and appears Lawrence hits his head on the turf. Not a dirty play and honestly the defender has no choice here with quarterbacks using the fake slide and fake out of bounds run to their advantage. The problem on this play is the defender can't let up because Lawrence is sliding right at the first down flag and his sliding technique sucks because he keeps his head up.
your own link supports the forearm to the head, wtf

This defender is putting his hands on the shoulder pads. It's the crap slide that causes contact to his facemask but that's minimal here. The hard contact is with the turf because the QB slides with his head up. Any injury on this play is on Lawrence.
 
This defender is putting his hands on the shoulder pads. It's the crap slide that causes contact to his facemask but that's minimal here. The hard contact is with the turf because the QB slides with his head up. Any injury on this play is on Lawrence.
That's like saying "I didn't mean to hit you in the head when I swung that baseball bat at you it's your fault I missed your ribs when you ducked". Totally ignorant. The QB is protected when he starts the slide, the guy never should have been trying to hit him in the first place, it was a BS cheap shot.
 
Trevor Lawrence got nearly killed on a slide today. They need to change that - can't we have them just raise their hand fair catch style? Play is dead as soon as they do?

Whatever, there has to be a better way.

The play

I'll be the devil's advocate on this one. Here is the play. https://x.com/ProFootballDoc/status/1863299207324717539

The defender is attacking at the same time Lawrence starts his slide, which is right at the first down line to gain. It's not helmet to helmet or forearm to helmet and appears Lawrence hits his head on the turf. Not a dirty play and honestly the defender has no choice here with quarterbacks using the fake slide and fake out of bounds run to their advantage. The problem on this play is the defender can't let up because Lawrence is sliding right at the first down flag and his sliding technique sucks because he keeps his head up.
your own link supports the forearm to the head, wtf
The hand/forearm is to the shoulder, not the head.
 
All right, I can see where the hit starts in the shoulder area and the glancing blow ends up at the head. Regardless, the hit shouldn't have been made at all.
 
Hitting a sliding QB should be automatic ejection. Eregious shots like this this should be mandatory 2 games suspension escalating from there. Until they start enforcing real consequences nothing will happen. There's zero football reason to hit the guy. You can't force a fumble because the play's dead the second he started his slide, you're not touching him down because the play's already dead. The only thing to accomplish now is injury and intentional injurious actions should be given the nuclear option, it's the only way to stop them.

If you're going to do this, you need to make the fake slide an offensive penalty too. I don't disagree with your take here, but some QB will try and take advantage of this in a key moment of a key game, and everybody will lose their minds. Totally acknowledge that defining a "fake slide" can be tough, but I think, like porn, you know it when you see it.
 
Hitting a sliding QB should be automatic ejection. Eregious shots like this this should be mandatory 2 games suspension escalating from there. Until they start enforcing real consequences nothing will happen. There's zero football reason to hit the guy. You can't force a fumble because the play's dead the second he started his slide, you're not touching him down because the play's already dead. The only thing to accomplish now is injury and intentional injurious actions should be given the nuclear option, it's the only way to stop them.

If you're going to do this, you need to make the fake slide an offensive penalty too. I don't disagree with your take here, but some QB will try and take advantage of this in a key moment of a key game, and everybody will lose their minds. Totally acknowledge that defining a "fake slide" can be tough, but I think, like porn, you know it when you see it.
I can agree with this.
 
Trevor Lawrence got nearly killed on a slide today. They need to change that - can't we have them just raise their hand fair catch style? Play is dead as soon as they do?

Whatever, there has to be a better way.

The play

Watched that play 20 times and I know they are told to slide but the slide caused the injury. It is so easy to judge the defensive player when watching it on replay, then in slow motion. These guys are playing at a high speed with intensity every play. Once they are committed to the tackle at that speed they can`t pull up.
 
Trevor Lawrence got nearly killed on a slide today. They need to change that - can't we have them just raise their hand fair catch style? Play is dead as soon as they do?

Whatever, there has to be a better way.

The play

The play is dead as soon as he starts the slide. I'm not sure if signaling a fair catch would end it any faster or stop a hit like the one Lawrence took... the defender would have been just as aware that the play was over and decided to continue with his hit.
One advantage to the fair catch idea is that the QB's head is up higher. When the QB slides, the head is about where his hip would be. If the defender blasts the QB in the hip or abdomen it would still be a late hit and 15 yard penalty, maybe an ejection too, and might cause broken ribs or severe hip pointer - but most people would prefer to take one of those injuries over a severe concussion.
 
Some fun math I read...

roughly 4 yards between players when the slide starts. average 40 time divided by distance is about .5 seconds. not taking away from how dirty the hit is, but .5 seconds to make a decision when, like others have posted, QBs can fake a slide gives another perspective.
 
If you're going to do this, you need to make the fake slide an offensive penalty too. I don't disagree with your take here, but some QB will try and take advantage of this in a key moment of a key game, and everybody will lose their minds. Totally acknowledge that defining a "fake slide" can be tough, but I think, like porn, you know it when you see it.
It doesn't have to be all or nothing. Al-Shaair could have readied himself for the fake slide and then pulled up when the slide happens. You see guys do it all the time, they brace for impact and then they dive over/pull up/raise up the arms to avoid the low collision. Al-Shaair did none of those things, he started high, lowered down, and led with the forearm. He is high enough at this point to just go right over Lawrence:


He chose not to.

Personally, I think the rule is dumb. The QB's know they have the protection so they do everything they can to milk it and create these bang-bang plays. It's made worse by the fact they are so close to the ground and half of these injuries aren't the actual impact but the resulting head bouncing off the turf. It's made even more worse that the sliding position creates a wide-open body target for the guy to hit. They rarely go fetal and cover up because the rule tells them they don't have to. This is a good example, if this play happens to an upright QB it's not even a penalty and very unlikely to be a severe injury besides hurting like hell and maybe some ribs.

Take the rule out and allow the QB to throw the ball out of bounds at any time without a grounding penalty, ball is dead at that spot. Tell the QB "you have no more protection, it's your problem if you get hit. You have all the time in the world to run out of bounds, throw the ball away, or brace/cover up if you don't want to get killed". Look at Lawrence in that last pic, he is doing nothing to protect himself because he's been told he doesn't have to. That's a dumb thing to tell a football player in the NFL. If the QB gets hit late throwing the ball away or crossing the OB line there's far less drastic impact happening.
 
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Trevor Lawrence got nearly killed on a slide today. They need to change that - can't we have them just raise their hand fair catch style? Play is dead as soon as they do?

Whatever, there has to be a better way.

The play
The rule is supposed to be play is dead as soon as the QB even takes to go into the sliding motion. Mahomes has been abusing that. If he were called down properly when he fakes a slide then there would be less times the defender feels they have to continue the tackle.

Of course yesterday's hit was egregious.
 
Some fun math I read...

roughly 4 yards between players when the slide starts. average 40 time divided by distance is about .5 seconds. not taking away from how dirty the hit is, but .5 seconds to make a decision when, like others have posted, QBs can fake a slide gives another perspective.


With both players charging at each other, it seems to me a half-second is very generous. This play is similar to a punt returner signaling a fair catch after a charging defender has reached him and started his tackle motion. QB's are taught to slide early to avoid exactly what happened in this case because sliding at a charging defender's feet and not ducking your head down is going to cause contact nearly every time. In this case the defender avoided helmet/helmet but his contact caused Lawrence's head to hit the turf hard. Lawrence caused this by going for extra yardage and a first down, sliding way too late, and putting the defender in an impossible situation.
 
Trevor Lawrence got nearly killed on a slide today. They need to change that - can't we have them just raise their hand fair catch style? Play is dead as soon as they do?

Whatever, there has to be a better way.

The play
Cheap shots are always going to happen, it doesn't matter what you do. The NFL simply needs to make the penalty so severe for a hit like Lawrence took that takes the player out of the league for 1+ years. In many cases, the punishment does not match the crime. I say in cases like this, make the punishment even more severe than the crime. At least these idiots might think twice.
I agree but you also can't allow QBs to fake going out of bounds and then turn up field or reach the ball out for an extra yard or two, or fake a slide and then keeping running. Happens all the time with certain QBs.
 
If the QB seriously fears that he's going to be severely injured, he can (1) slide earlier, or (2) drop the football, and curl up into a ball to protect himself (life is bigger than a silly game, right?).
 
The rule is supposed to be play is dead as soon as the QB even takes to go into the sliding motion. Mahomes has been abusing that. If he were called down properly when he fakes a slide then there would be less times the defender feels they have to continue the tackle.
That's a great point too but probably really tough to adjudicate. I'd have to see some videos, I can't recall anything specific, but I think you'd just end up with a different very difficult judgement/timing call. Remove it altogether. If you have the ball you're going to get pounded, throw it away or go out of bounds.
 
I'll admit that QBs aren't very good at protecting themselves with their feet first slides. Had Lawrence (essentially) laid down with a head first slide we're not even having this conversation.
 

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