You all know Mike Pereira, the former NFL vice president of officiating, who now works as a rules analyst for Fox Sports. You all love Mike Pereira, of course. He is, at least in my estimation, perhaps the best in the business when it comes to correctly making calls and, more importantly, deciphering and parsing the rules language, which gets changes annually.
Wouldn’t you know it, 2016 happens to be another year. That also happens to mean that with the new year comes yet another series of minor adjustments to the rule book, whether it is futilely attempting to clarify language, introducing new legislation in the name of player safety, or officially codifying something that was an ‘unofficial rule’ that was exposed through a loophole the prior season.