On Wednesday, the NFL released all of the rule proposals that will be discussed at next week’s owners meetings. We already knew of the proposals proposed by teams—four of which were proposed by the Detroit Lions. But this fuller list of proposals also includes several from NFL’s competition committee and one specific rule proposal appears to close a loophole that screwed the Lions last year.
You may remember Detroit’s Week 4 game against the Green Bay Packers on “Thursday Night Football.” In that game, the Packers ran a play at the end of the third quarter—clearly after the clock had expired 0:00.