{"id":686816,"date":"2018-09-24T19:33:14","date_gmt":"2018-09-24T23:33:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/?p=686816"},"modified":"2018-09-24T19:33:14","modified_gmt":"2018-09-24T23:33:14","slug":"nfl-players-having-hard-time-knowing-when-a-sack-is-legal-under-new-rule-emphasis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/?p=686816","title":{"rendered":"NFL players having hard time knowing when a sack is legal under new rule emphasis"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>LANDOVER | <\/strong>Sure does seem as if &#8220;When is a sack just a sack?&#8221; is quickly becoming the NFL&#8217;s new &#8220;Did that player lower his helmet too much?&#8221; or &#8220;What, exactly, is a catch?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s a fundamental element of football \u2014 how a pass-rusher is allowed to bring a QB &#8230;<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtontimes.com\/news\/2018\/sep\/24\/nfl-players-having-hard-time-knowing-when-a-sack-i\/?utm_source=RSS_Feed&amp;utm_medium=RSS\" class=\"colorbox\" id=\"rssmi_more\"> &#8230;read more<\/a> <\/p>\n<p>Source:: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtontimes.com\/news\/2018\/sep\/24\/nfl-players-having-hard-time-knowing-when-a-sack-i\/?utm_source=RSS_Feed&amp;utm_medium=RSS\" class=\"colorbox\" title=\"NFL players having hard time knowing when a sack is legal under new rule emphasis\">Washington Times<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>LANDOVER | Sure does seem as if &#8220;When is a sack just a sack?&#8221; is quickly becoming the NFL&#8217;s new &#8220;Did that player lower his&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[79],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-686816","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-featured-stories","wpcat-79-id"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/686816","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=686816"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/686816\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=686816"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=686816"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=686816"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}