With more room to operate, offenses have the ability to run more stunt plays, kick returners can sometimes get around defensive coverages by reversing direction and backing up, and being at or near the goal line doesn't automatically limit your play selections due to lack of playing surface to work with.
The extra real estate also means teams get to have another player on the field. An extra player in the pattern means more options for the quarterback to look at and one more guy for the defensive coverage to track. As with the other differences in the two games, more room allows for more creativity on both sides of the ball, which can't help but be a good thing when it comes to entertainment value.
One added wrinkle to the wider field: it also means the hash marks are further separated. This most particularly affects the kicking game, as kickers aren't always starting within the arms of the uprights.
This can make even close-in field goal attempts challenging, since you might have to chip in from a funky angle. One of the big differences between the NFL game and the CFL game is that Canadian football allows every player behind the line of scrimmage to start moving before the snap.
As a result, a six-man pass pattern with every receiver in full sprint at the snap is a common occurrence and gives the offense all kinds of different options to exploit defensive holes. This rule alone opens up the offense in ways the NFL simply can't. It encourages more creativity on both sides of the ball.
Offensively, it creates more and better passing options and puts pressure on the defense to handle challenging pass patterns. This line is a sort of "no-man's land": players must stay on their respective sides of this line until the play has begun again. For a scrimmage to be valid the team in possession of the football must have seven players, excluding the quarterback, within one yard of the line of scrimmage.
The defending team, however, must stay a yard or more back from the line of scrimmage. Live play On the field at the beginning of a play are two teams of The team in possession of the ball is the offence and the team defending is referred to as the defence. Play begins with a backwards pass through the legs by a member of the offensive team, to the quarterback or punter. If the quarterback or punter receives the ball, he may then do any of the following: run with the ball, attempting to run farther down field gaining yardage.
The ball-carrier may run in any direction he sees fit including backwards. This play is exceedingly rare in both Canadian and American football, although in the Canadian game it is sometimes used as a last-second "desperation play" if the team is behind by less than three points.
This play is known as a lateral , and may come at any time on the play. A pass which has any amount of forward momentum is a forward pass see below ; forward passes are subject to many restrictions which do not apply to laterals.
Forward passes are subject to the following restrictions: They must be made from behind the line of scrimmage Only one forward pass may be made on a play The pass must be made in the direction of an eligible receiver. Each play constitutes a down. The offence must advance the ball at least ten yards towards the opponents' goal line within three downs or forfeit the ball to their opponents. Once ten yards have been gained the offence gains a new set of three downs.
It must be noted that they do not accumulate, so that if one completes 10 yards on their first play, they lose the other two downs, instead of being granted three on top of their remaining two. If a team fails to gain ten yards in two downs they usually punt the ball on third down or try to kick a field goal see below , depending on their position on the field. Change in possession The ball changes possession in the following instances: If the offence scores; the defence has the right to claim possession either by starting from scrimmage at their own 35 yard line, or by receiving a kickoff.
The defence may also elect to kick the ball to their opponents; teams with a strong placekicker and a stout defence may choose to do this to gain better field position for their own offence. This also applies when the defence scores on a turnover which is returned for a touchdown--technically, they become the offence for the conclusion of the play, and the scored-upon team has the right to claim possession. If the defence scores on a safety, they have the right to claim possession. If one team kicks the ball; the other team has the right to recover the ball and attempt a return.
If a kicked ball goes out of bounds, or the kicking team scores a single or field goal as a result of the kick, the other team likewise gets possession. If the offence fails to make ten yards in three plays, the defence takes over on downs.
If the offence attempts a forward pass and it is intercepted by the defence; the defence takes possession immediately and may try and advance the ball on the play. Note that incomplete forward passes those which go out of bounds, or which touch the ground without being first cleanly caught by a player result in the end of the play, and are not returnable by either team.
If the offence fumbles a ball-carrier drops the football, or has it dislodged by an opponent, or if the intended player fails to catch a lateral pass or a snap from centre, or a kick attempt is blocked by an opponent , the ball may be recovered and advanced by either team.
If a fumbled ball goes out of bounds, the team whose player last touched it is awarded possession at the spot where it went out of bounds. A fumble by the offence in their own end zone, which goes out of bounds, results in a safety. When the first half ends, the team which kicked to start the first half may receive a kickoff to start the second half.
Rules of contact There are many rules to contact in this type of football. First, the only player on the field who may be legally tackled is the player currently in possession of the football the ball carrier.
Second, a receiver, that is to say, an offensive player sent down the field to receive a pass, may not be interfered with have his motion impeded, be blocked, etc. Any player may block another player's passage, so long as he does not hold or trip the player he intends to block. The kicker may not be contacted after the kick, and the quarterback, having already thrown the ball, may not be hit or tackled.
Infractions and penalties Infractions of the rules are punished with penalties , typically of 5, 10, or 15 yards. Minor violations such as offside a player from either side encroaching into scrimmage zone before the play starts are penalized five yards, more serious penalties such as holding are penalized 10 yards, and severe violations of the rules are typically penalized 15 yards.
Depending on the penalty, the penalty yardage may be assessed from the original line of scrimmage, the spot the violation occurred, or the place the ball ended after the play. Penalties on the offence may, or may not, result in a loss of down; penalties on the defence may result in a first down being automatically awarded to the offence. For particularly severe conduct, the game official s may eject players ejected players may be substituted for , or in exceptional cases, declare the game over and award victory to one side or the other.
Penalties do not affect the yard line which the offence must reach in order to reach first down unless the penalty results in a first down being awarded ; if a penalty against the defence results in the first down yardage being attained, then the offence is awarded a first down. Penalties may occur before a play starts such as offsides , during the play such as holding , or in a dead-ball situation such as unsportsmanlike conduct.
Penalties never result in a score for the offence a penalty by the defence committed in their end zone is not ruled a touchdown ; on rare occasions, penalties against the offence in their own end zone may result in a safety being scored by the defence. If the penalty yardage, once assessed would move the ball into an end zone or further than half the distance between the end zone and the spot the penalty is assessed from , a penalty of half-the-distance is assessed instead.
Note that in Canadian football unlike American football , no scrimmage may start inside either one-yard line. In most cases, the non-penalized team will have the option of declining the penalty; in which case the results of the previous play stand as if the penalty had not been called. One notable exception to this rule is if the kicking team on a 3rd down punt play is penalized before the kick occurs; the receiving team may not decline the penalty and take over on downs.
After the kick is made, change of possession occurs and subsequent penalties are assessed against either the spot where the ball is caught, or the runback. Positions Offence The offensive positions found in Canadian football and American football have, for the most part, evolved throughout the years, and are not officially defined in the rules.
However, among offensive players, the rules recognize three different types of players: Down linemen Down linemen are players who, at the start of every play, line up at the line of scrimmage; once in their stance they may not move until the play begins. The offence must have at least seven players lined up at the line of scrimmage on every play.
The exception to this rule is the player typically the centre who snaps the ball to the quarterback. Linemen generally do not run with the ball unless they recover it on a fumble or receive a hand-off or lateral pass, but there is no rule against it. However, the centre and the two linemen on either side are ineligible receivers ; they may not receive a forward pass either. There was only one challenge captured in these four games and it took 3 minutes to resolve from the time the challenge flag was thrown to the time the result was announced.
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