Week 5 Gamethread
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Coming down on the QB with your full body weight is a black-letter no-no. Maybe that’s not a good rule, but unlike the hit on Brady yesterday, the official made the correct call.
We have seen two RTP flags thrown without a pass actually being thrown.
I assume the flag was for dropping his full body weight on Carr, but what about the possession of the ball mid-play?
Howard's legacy has been unfairly stained. He used to call his own grandkids "little monkeys"...the man was an advocate for Ali when it was decidedly unpopular. It's a shame people assume the worst.
Yeah that's been the rule for a few years at least. It shouldn't be a surprise to anyone.
that Brady call though...yecch.
To be clear, I don't think that Cosell intended to make a racist statement about Garrett.
Where in the actual rule is that? I just re-checked and I don’t see that anywhere. You certainly can’t, as the rule puts it, ‘unnecessarily’ drive the QB into the ground, among similar actions. And Jones does try to brace himself with the left hand as he falls to the ground, and whether the defender braces himself is mentioned in the rule as a factor in evaluating otherwise timely hits.
By the contrary view, any tackle where the defender lands on the QB is roughing. No way.
By the contrary view, any tackle where the defender lands on the QB is roughing. No way.
No.
Yeah, but they had just blown an obvious DPI in the endzone the play before. Shit evens out.
Aikman is generally a good dude, from what I can tell. He’s criticized the NFL for its jingoism, which is pretty bold for an ex-Cowboy. But that was bad, hope he apologizes.
Boomer looking ripe. Might be a solid play for the 2023 SOSH celebrity death contest.
Carr hadn’t just thrown and wasn’t in the process, so by that rule he wasn’t in a defenseless position
This is all well and good, but we don't want to live in a world that that's a 15-yard penalty.
He didn’t have the ball, so there isn’t a need to parse whether Carr was a defenseless passer and, if so, whether the contact was unnecessary.
He wasn't a passer. Thus the entire passage you quoted is completely irrelevant.
He was a ball carrier who had just fumbled.
Yes, but I think the NFL has been treating any QB who is not attempting to run the ball as essentially in the process of passing.
I too wonder about the ball coming loose negating any possibility of a RTP penalty. Is CFB Rules in the house?
Also, there's this 2018 piece from The Ringer.
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For all the time the NFL spends on the schedule I’m surprised they went with a Chiefs home game on Indigenous Peoples’ Day.
Pretty soft OPI penalty imo. Chiefs did similar or worse on the Kelce TD (and all the time besides that).
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