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That's BS. that was a playoff football hit (1 Viewer)
- Thread starter cowboyz1
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TheBottomLine
Footballguy
Are you honestly surprised by that call? If you don't like it, don't watch it. BTW, the rules aren't going to change just because it's the playoffs.
BustedKnuckles
Footballguy
renesauz
IBL Representative
Lot's a bad personal foul calls in the NFL this year. Ridiculous that a WR can duck last second and draw a flag. That said, you posted this a minute after one of the most obvious H2H calls I've ever seen (hit to Harvin in the playoff game)- a clear penalty that absolutely deserved a flag. 
cowboyz1
Footballguy
I just am frustrated. I got fired up with that hit. In games past that would have set the tone for the game. Jumped up and said WHooooooohhh. Yeah, nice hit. Then flag. Just sucks that's all.
Short Corner
Footballguy
TheBottomLine
Footballguy
KellysHeroes
Footballguy
32 Counter Pass
Footballguy
HELLO. This is the reality of the league today. All the new concussion info is exposing the league to litigation with huge financial repercussions. The league MUST change or law suits will kill it. Period. If you do not embrace the evolution you will continue to be frustrated. Your only other option is to stop watching the games.
TheBottomLine
Footballguy
Not every game will be reffed the same, just saying the rules remain intact, ESPECIALLY anything that involves helmet to helmet. Just don't see how anyone is surprised by that call, that's all.
SproutDaddy
Footballguy
It wasn't helmet to helmet. That's why it's surprising.
cowboyz1
Footballguy
It just looks more and more like the refs are calling fouls by they way the hit looks and the sound of the crowd more than the contact with the head. If the hit is violent and snaps the head back they call the PF regardless if there was head to head contact. It just seems to me that intrinsically the defense has the right to protect the middle of the field with necessary roughness to keep receivers honest. That's playing sound defense. Always has been and always should be. Receivers knew that going over the middle was a right of passage and do so unawares at your own peril. Was a measure of a receivers toughness and QB's had to have skill in putting the ball in a place to not only make the completion but protect the receiver at the same time. Your not going to be able to legislate by rules the violence of the game. It's just too fast, which makes it impossible to react to what a WR does at the last second before impact. You have to pick a spot and hit the guy. What is going to start happening is players are going to start going low like the Gronk hit and we are going to start seeing more gruesome lower leg injuries. In fact, Gronk's knee should have exploded and hinged backward when they safety came up full speed and took out his legs as he was planting in full stride. Frankly, I don't want to see that and would much rather a guy come up and hit me high than low. I just think the adjustment to these new rules are going to make for some really devastating and crippling leg injuries.
Further example was the Vernon Davis hit today. Shoulder to shoulder hit, PF, first down SF. Horrible call.
Further example was the Vernon Davis hit today. Shoulder to shoulder hit, PF, first down SF. Horrible call.
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