[Spielman]

The way this penalty has been called has been one of my pet peeves for years. There's no consistency. It hardly ever seems to be called, even in situations that clearly meet the criteria set in the rules, so that when it actually is, you have to wonder what magical conjunction of events took place to make this time different.

It just got called on Jamie Martin of the Rams in the Sunday Night game, on a deep throw where one of the receivers ran a post when Martin thought he was going to run a corner instead. It wasn't intentional grounding by any sane definition, and it caused the Rams field goal attempt to be a lot longer, and come up short. I saw no less than three plays in other games today where grounding could have been legitimately called, and where do they call it but on a play that makes no sense at all.

Can they ever get this thing right? Can they fix it in any way that makes sense? Or do you not think it's a problem?