By By Ryan Early

Friday, April 4, 2003

Pass interference and defensive holding penalties are the most controversial, most inconsistent and potentially most damaging of all the rule infractions. Referees must decide in a split second whether the hand the defender placed on the receiver was to help keep track of him, or whether it impeded the progress of the receiver. Did the defender make contact with the receiver before the ball arrived, or did they arrive simultaneously? Was the receiver shoving the defender's hand away before ma ...

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