JawnyBlaze

That’s referring to a separate penalty, the “excessive” part. Taking the helmet off is only a penalty in the field of play, the reference to the Lambeau Leap was if they wanted to try to call it “excessive celebration” instead of taking the helmet off

Ok I was off with the “didn’t touch” but he still had the helmet completely on when he was completely out of bounds

Yea the part that mentions excessive also specifies “two or more players”, this is talking about the rehearsed celebrations. Not a solo player taking his helmet off out of the field of play and jumping in the stands. How many times would the Packers have been flagged for this if the Lambeau Leap was a penalty?

I looked up a video and Cam was definitely out of bounds, but the article also implied it was for taunting rather than taking the helmet off. I couldn’t find video of the ref explaining the penalty (I suppose I could get on game pass and see it, I might later) so I don’t know if the helmet was mentioned.

I didn’t mean to imply the only two times in history, just the only two times mentioned here (or that I can recall) were against the Panthers. I’ve never seen that penalty called against a player that wasn’t in the field of play other than DJ and Cam (assuming the previous poster is correct and Cam was out of bounds when he took his helmet off)

He didn’t even touch his helmet until he was fully in the white out of bounds area. I don’t understand what’s so hard for people to grasp here. Yea, he should not show any joy or emotion after presumably winning the game for us, I get that. But his momentary lapse in judgement should not have cost us the game because it wasn’t against the rules.

Yea I didn’t mention the Cam one when it was mentioned earlier because I couldn’t remember where he was. If so, that was an erroneous penalty too. Goes to show the only two times it was called that way when they weren’t on the field of play was against the Panthers…

Exactly

I’ve never ever seen a player flagged for taking their helmet off to celebrate out of bounds. I’ve seen it a few times in the end zone or on the regular field. Aka in the field of play.

Yep.

Wut. I never said he was trash, too old or garbage. I said I didn’t think he was a good permanent starter and I already admitted my error yesterday

Yea that was an incredible pass for sure. Cam has done it, I’m sure Josh Allen could do it. Aaron Rodgers probably. Stafford in his prime. That’s about all I can think of among active QBs.

He took his helmet off out of bounds out the back of the end zone. The rule doesn’t say he can’t be in the field of play without a helmet. That happens often when players run onto the field from the side line. The rule explicitly specifies the act of removing the helmet is the penalty, not being helmetless.

You’re conveniently leaving out the critical part of what you yourself are even presenting. It says “in the end zone”. Moore wasn’t in the end zone. Diggs was. Moore was out of bounds (aka out of the field of play) when he took his helmet off. Full stop. Not a penalty.

Probably. Was still soul crushingly bad though lol

It’s definitely better the past two games. His first post-Rhule game may have been the worst OC’d game I’ve ever seen. Even worse than Shula

Diggs was in the field of play. DJ wasn’t. That simple.

There’s no rule against coming onto the field of play without a helmet to celebrate. By the letter of the rules, he did nothing wrong. You could argue he broke the spirit of the rule but that standard is never applied in the other direction, shouldn’t have today. Not to mention taking the helmet off is rarely penalized anyway.

The OT kick was the same distance as an extra point

Technically, it wasn’t a penalty. It was an incorrect application of (h):

Coming onto the field without a helmet on to celebrate isn’t a penalty. Happens all the time.

Doesn’t matter what he said, he’d get fined if he spoke the truth about it anyway. It wasn’t a penalty, end of discussion.

(h) clearly specifies in the field of play, which DJ wasn’t. Nowhere does it say they can’t come onto the field of play without a helmet to celebrate, so when DJ came back into the end zone wasnt a penalty either.

I’d bet anything you’re right.

Yep. Forgot about that one, but I said the same thing right after the play.