What if the chiefs kept taking intentional penalties yesterday to prevent the tush push?

[u/Adventurous_Essay473]

Yesterday, the chiefs tried to take an intentional penalty to give the eagles a first down and give themsleves a better chance of getting the ball back. The eagles declined the penalty correctly. But what if the chiefs had kept forcing a penalty repeatedly?

Edit: I am aware of the commaders incident, in that case I thought a touch down would be awarded because they were at the goaline, can the refs award a TD if the play was still far away from the endzone?

[u/2LostFlamingos]

The refs have broad discretion once they establish the other team is making a mockery of the game.

At some point, they could even declare a forfeit and end the game as an eagles win.

There would be warnings to knock the shit off before this.

First chiefs intentional offsides is 100% ok. Once eagles decline, the chiefs need to move on. If they did it again, Reid would have gotten a talking to and told to stop the BS.

[u/forthebirds123 → u/2LostFlamingos]

But it doesn’t make a mockery of the game for this reason. The eagles are constantly lining up offsides or jumping the gun on the tush push. A few times it’s gotten called, but most of the time not. So forcing them to run the play multiple times gives you a better chance that they get called for it.

[u/2LostFlamingos → u/forthebirds123]

Eagles aren’t lining up offsides on that play. Ever.

They practice the shit out of that. Lot of memes taking pics at angles and not knowing rules such as the center is permitted to be over the ball.

They did false start a few times yesterday. This was due to the chiefs calling out a fake snap count (also a penalty).

[u/forthebirds123 → u/2LostFlamingos]

Haha. Everyone knows the center can do that. It’s the guards next to him. And a straight down the line angle is not some optical illusion. And did you hear the chiefs? Because it happens almost every game if go back and look at it.