{"id":482976,"date":"2026-02-22T01:37:07","date_gmt":"2026-02-22T01:37:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/482976\/"},"modified":"2026-02-22T01:37:07","modified_gmt":"2026-02-22T01:37:07","slug":"report-rams-will-propose-change-to-rule-that-led-to-wacky-seahawks-two-point-play","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/482976\/","title":{"rendered":"Report: Rams will propose change to rule that led to wacky Seahawks’ two-point play"},"content":{"rendered":"

After the Week 16 Thursday night overtime thriller between the Rams and Seahawks, L.A. coach Sean McVay was apoplectic<\/a> about the manner in which replay review changed an incomplete pass into a successful two-point conversion.<\/p>\n

The Rams plan to try to do something about it.<\/p>\n

Jonathan Jones of CBS Sports reports that the Rams plan to propose a rule change<\/a> that would make the outcome of the play in question an unsuccessful two-point try.<\/p>\n

No details have been provided as to what the change would be. <\/p>\n

The play was fueled by the fluke deflection of a backward pass that caused it to go forward. And because it was a backward pass and not a fumble, it could be recovered beyond the spot of the backward pass by someone other than the person who threw it.<\/p>\n

One possibility would entail applying the fumble rules to a backward pass that is touched by a member of the defense or, even more specifically, one that is touched by a member of the defense and ricochets forward.<\/p>\n

Apart from the kooky outcome is the fact that it took 100 seconds to initiate a replay review. As PFT recently reported, a call from Prime Video rules analyst Terry McAulay to NFL rules analyst Walt Anderson sparked the process<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Given the outcome of that game and its impact on the NFC West crown and No. 1 seed in the conference, it was the call of the year<\/a>. Whether it prompts a rule change remains to be seen.<\/p>\n

The fact that it happens so infrequently could be the best argument against a change, with teams continuing to coach players to pick up any loose ball they see. Like Seahawks running back Zach Charbonnet did<\/a> in that key moment.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"After the Week 16 Thursday night overtime thriller between the Rams and Seahawks, L.A. coach Sean McVay was…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":482977,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[63],"tags":[349,99],"class_list":["post-482976","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nfl","tag-nfl","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/482976","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=482976"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/482976\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/482977"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=482976"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=482976"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=482976"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}