MIN@DET: Flyover

A last-second shove by Lions’ safety Daniel Thomas (2) sends Minnesota’s Jordan Addison flying out of bounds, keeping him out of the end zone. Good defense, right?

Not good enough.

As usual, such tenaciousness is a big waste of effort, because the break-the-plane/goal line extended interpretation grants Addison six points even though he never touched the end zone. Never really got close to it, actually. Yet because Addison waved a fraction of the ball above the outside of the pylon — an object that itself is 100 percent out of bounds — Addison receives six points. Defensive coordinators just love rulings such as this. Hocus Bogus Rating: 5

BAL@GB: Zay what? 2 straight weeks?

Baltimore’s Zay Flowers is expanding our understanding of the term “wide receiver.” For the second straight week Flowers landed wide of the end zone once past the goal line, fully in out-of-bounds territory. Yet he was granted six points on both occasions. An extra-wide end zone means defenders have more space to defend. It hardly seems fair. Rating: 4.5

College: Springboard six

If you lack the power to punch the ball into the end zone, take advantage of the break-the-plane rule and make it easy on yourself — just leap skyward, and a little forward, wave the ball in the end zone’s airspace, and even though you get belted and knocked backwards, don’t fret. Just let football’s lamest rule do the work for you and collect your no-touch six points. Rating: 5