Should the NFL Abolish the Rule of Forward Progress?

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00:00Kansas City Chiefs here, all they do is win and win in close games.

00:05Is it going to come back and bite them in the Super Bowl?

00:07Because it doesn't feel like it ever comes in a one score game.

00:10It seems like every time they play that, they automatically win it, Mark.

00:15I mean, look, at this point, I've given into the void, you know, I mean, why now I will

00:22tell you in anger on Sunday night, I went immediately and bet the Philadelphia Eagles

00:26in the Super Bowl because I was ticked off.

00:28Yep.

00:30So I mean, I'm still not going to watch the game.

00:33I'll just check my account later on.

00:35But in anger, I did it and I bet the Eagles, but it's going to be a loss because at this

00:38point in time, why would you keep betting against the Chiefs, right?

00:41Like why keep banging your head against the wall?

00:43So I've given in.

00:44I don't know what else to say.

00:45I will say this much, and DRS, and I've said this for years, and this is really going to

00:49make Ben Stevens' head spin.

00:52You want me to solve, you want me to solve all this tush push and fourth down malarkey

00:57that goes on with the officials?

00:59Here's a crazy idea.

01:00Get rid of the worst rule in the NFL, and that is forward progress.

01:03How about this?

01:04Where I knock your ass on the ground is where the ball goes, period.

01:08Let's end this whole conversation.

01:09Like if I drop you back four yards, then you lost four yards.

01:13If we get rid of forward progress, this tush push and everything else is taken care of.

01:17Where I put your tail on the ground is where the ball goes, end of conversation.

01:21It's the dumbest rule and the most arbitrary rule.

01:24The only thing that is a worse call in the NFL than forward progress is the punt that

01:30goes out of bounds when you watch the official walk down the sideline having absolutely no

01:34clue where that ball crossed over.

01:37All I can think of is that Price is right there going, do-di-do-di-do, do-di-do-di-do,

01:41as he's walking down the sideline arbitrarily trying to figure out where the ball crossed

01:46over because he's got no clue.