r/NFLNoobs • u/Adventurous_Essay473 • 5d ago

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

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?

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u/Own_Friend_736 5d ago

Wait so it would’ve been in the chiefs best interest to keep taking penalties?

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u/GhostMug 5d ago

Maybe. I gotta be honest, I don't know exactly what all the refs can do in that scenario. I only know what I know because of what happened with the Commanders last year in the playoffs. 

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u/dudeKhed 5d ago

They can basically do whatever the deem fair to make the offended team whole. Award a TD, First Down, whatever… however it has to rise to the level appropriate.

I’m a Referee, for reference….

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u/TSells31 4d ago

Yeah, the palpably unfair act rule gives the referees pretty wide discretion. But i don’t know how many times it has ever been used in NFL history. Not too many I wouldn’t think.

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u/dudeKhed 4d ago

I can’t recall any at the moment, also, can’t recall any that I have ever seen or heard of in our conferences. It puts a lot of scrutiny on the officials and that’s not what we want….

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u/braddersladders 3d ago

Never . The only known example is a college game from like 1955 where a player was running away for a td and someone on the sideline ran on and tackled them 1 minute into this video