That was a horrible call. These new rules are designed to give refs too much grey area. You can't give them this much discretion. That's literally wrong. The rule very clearly says that you can't do what the player did. We can argue over whether the rule is dumb, but they followed the rulebook on this. Source: http://www.dfoa.com/attachments/article/69/2013-14_Football_Rule_Book.pdf