Getting back on topic, I would like to see pass interference called less frequently. It’s starting to feel like any contact between defender and receiver generates a flag, and coaches only have a small number of challenges available. I’m not saying go back to the days of clutching and grabbing, but come on, let DBs play ball.
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Get rid of the ratio-
The ratio lowers the quality of the game and affirmative action skewers the salary cap. It’s simple. Get the best players available and pay them what they are worth relative to each other. I see someone mentioned putting maple leafs on the helmets of Canadians. I reiterate my idea from the old forum- maple syrup stickers for real Canadians and back bacon stickers for fake Canadians if the ratio stays. That’s no sillier than having a ratio in the first place and lowering the quality of the on field product as a result. The most critical change along with:
Go to a one division system-
We don’t need no stinking sextants and compasses to establish playoff qualification and seeding based on longitude- earn your standing
Abolish the operations cap.
Abolish the dubious concept of “marketing money”-
This is a farce in a salary cap league and results in players such as Rourke making $200,000 or so to “market” the league when instead he beaks off and spews negativity about the rule changes. It also makes the salary cap pointless. At the very least set a limit applicable to every team, although that is still a pretty silly exercise when the money could just be added to the salary cap. Much simpler and more transparent. Whoever thought of this shifty concept is an idiot
To avoid deserved carnival comparisons:
- abolish the dribble kick
- abolish the ass fumble recovery
- abolish the last 3 minutes of carnival time
Abolish challenges for pass interference
Abolish winter football by starting the season earlier and hold the Grey Cup on Thanksgiving Sunday where it should be
Abolish half the distance to the goal penalties-
All such penalties should go to the one yard line at the very least. There is no logic in giving someone a break on a penalty just because of geographical location. Shades of the playoff geographical system. Perhaps even give points such as safeties for some penalties. They already do this for holding in the end zone.
There are more but this would be a good start. I also wouldn’t be upset if they fired Proulx. The man simply can’t control a football game.
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It’s funny that I kind of hijacked the original thread, but I think we have a lot of great ideas that I could put into various editions of Rules Court.
You guys all have the right idea in proposing rule changes.
Expect a thread from me soon.
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These all sound good to me. But, for now let’s not add any further rule changes except those that relate to the most recent changes. This will give us time to evaluate the recent changes.
I’m not sure that could be applied on a game to game basis lol 
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We don’t have any authority to make rule changes. That’s kind of the point of doing this exercise. It’s things we fancy or don’t fancy.
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Anyway, if powderpuff Sean McIndoe can handle being flamed for his insane ideas, then I’ll take a small chance at doing a same with a fraction of the readership.
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Penaties that go back half the distance to the goal line should be assessed to yardage required for a first down at the full yards.
Example offences has the ball on their own 2 yard line but take a 15 yard penalty on a second and 10 yards to go for a first down.
The ball now goes to the one yard line right with the rules and the down is played as first and 11 yards to go for a first down.
The rules should be that no matter where the ball is placed the full yardage of the penalt is enforced. In this case it should be second and 25 yards to go for a first down
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I would say though that if a coach is fired or let go, similar to a player, the team should not have to continue to pay him. That is the problem with the OPS cap, you only have so much money and cannot afford to be paying coaches that are no longer coaching. Imagine what that would do to rosters if you had to pay every player released AND count it towards your player cap.
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I agree wholeheartedly with you. I have suggested this for several year now and have always been shot down.
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Get rid of the ops cap? That would kill the league. The wealthiest teams could hire either all the best staff or add dozens for support and research.
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How is that? It seems like to you that any post 19th century change will kill the league. I’m not sure of your view on the US inspired forward pass, but presumably that should be banned as well as it was new at one time and definitely came from the US. In my view banning the forward pass would kill the league.
The argument against the ops cap is that it unduly punishes a team that has made some poor decisions and is almost certainly applied against teams that are not very good already, such as with Edmonton not long ago. Being forced to carry dead salaries prevents those teams from replacing fired coaches under contract and improving their poor teams and the players also don’t receive the coaching most consider necessary and in fact those hamstrung teams usually have less coaching than a university level team as someone has pointed out.
At the very least if there is to be a cap then fired coaches should not count against that cap. This doesn’t make the rich richer, but rather the current system makes the poor poorer.
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Hard disagree. The XFL convert is boring and mostly consists of failed attempts from the 3.
I also don’t want kickers and long snappers to lose out on all those reps which can be crucial in getting their confidence back after a missed field goal.
I wouldn’t be opposed to having the 1 point conversion be a 50 yard field goal attempt. At least then it’s not automatic and if your kicker is having a rough day you’d be more inclined to go for 2/3.
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That’s a good fix. Can’t back em up that far but you can make em earn more yards. I like it.
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There wasn’t an ops cap just a few years ago. It only started in 2019.
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How did the league survive all those years without an ops cap? Hard to fathom.
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It’s a discussion point. I suppose to me what is more relevant is that a firing doesn’t detriment the team as much as it currently does. There’s no sanity in having a team handcuffed for 2-4 years if an HC doesn’t work out. Sure, have a cap, but apply it only to the current year’s staff.
Anyway, it opens up the conversation and I don’t mind it.
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Bingo.. Bob Dyce.. 3.5 years as HC in OTT
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I know right? I guess the money tree must’ve died.
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well, they had more paying fans and did not struggle financially as bad as last few decades
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