Source: www.sbnation.com --- Thursday, March 30, 2017
The Seahawks feel they shouldn’t be punished just because they were the only ones who did it well. Seattle Seahawks head coach Pete Carroll isn’t happy with the NFL’s recent ban on players leaping over the line of scrimmage to block field goals and extra points . In recent years, this has been a special teams staple for the Seahawks, but Carroll said the NFL didn’t show clips of the plays the Seahawks made when presenting the proposed change. "Well, the examples that they showed us were the really bad examples," Carroll said via ESPN’s Sheil Kapadia . "They didn't show the examples of how pretty it is when a guy leaps over with great body control and makes the play and all.” The Seahawks have been great at making it look pretty, and have executed the safest displays of the leap. Kam Chancellor did it multiple times against the Carolina Panthers in the 2015 postseason . Bobby Wagner did it as well during the 2016 season against the Arizona Cardinals . All 32 teams, including the Seahawks, voted in favor of the ban. Carroll said he understood that if the NFL showed their clips, their case to ban the play wouldn’t have been as strong. “Guys were landing on their head and falling all over each other. It was a mess when we looked at it, so I couldn't vote against it the way it was going because they really did have examples that looked dangerous.” Carroll is disappointed with the measure in part because it was a rare display of what m ...
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