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RTBackJudge

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Re: Targeting/UNR/Nothing?
« Reply #25 on: September 10, 2014, 06:54:03 PM »
Someone mentioned this play (play 1) to me today and I went back to the official play-by-play.  This was called and enforced as RFP. Did anyone see that?  Would you agree with that call? Looks to me like the block, whether legal or not, happened during the return.
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Re: Targeting/UNR/Nothing?
« Reply #26 on: September 10, 2014, 07:58:31 PM »
Quote from: RTBackJudge on September 10, 2014, 06:54:03 PM
Someone mentioned this play (play 1) to me today and I went back to the official play-by-play.  This was called and enforced as RFP. Did anyone see that?  Would you agree with that call? Looks to me like the block, whether legal or not, happened during the return.
Do you mean RPS?  In both cases the player being blocked meets the definition of a defenseless player.
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Re: Targeting/UNR/Nothing?
« Reply #27 on: September 11, 2014, 07:55:03 AM »
Quote from: Kalle on September 10, 2014, 03:12:34 PM
You don't think the defender gets blindsided in the second clip?


I don't think so, personally.
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Re: Targeting/UNR/Nothing?
« Reply #28 on: September 11, 2014, 08:26:24 AM »
Quote from: bossman72 on September 11, 2014, 07:55:03 AM
I don't think so, personally.
So this begs the question.  How do we define a blind-side block?  What does it take to have one?  This block meets the definition I am using but it is clear that is not the case for everyone.
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Re: Targeting/UNR/Nothing?
« Reply #29 on: September 11, 2014, 03:37:24 PM »
Quote from: BankerRef on September 11, 2014, 08:26:24 AM
So this begs the question.  How do we define a blind-side block?  What does it take to have one?  This block meets the definition I am using but it is clear that is not the case for everyone.

It seems as though an addition to 2-3 might be in order.

It's clear that the defender never saw the offensive player, but it's hard for me to call a block that looks like it initiated between 10 and 2 a "blind-side" block. It will be interesting to see if this play makes the first tape.
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Re: Targeting/UNR/Nothing?
« Reply #30 on: September 11, 2014, 03:42:26 PM »
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Re: Targeting/UNR/Nothing?
« Reply #31 on: September 11, 2014, 03:47:09 PM »
Quote from: BlindZebra on September 11, 2014, 03:42:26 PM
Just out of curiosity...

http://gfycat.com/FoolishDelectableKinkajou

Maybe 9-1-3, would like a side angle to see whether or not the contact was actually with the crown. Definitely not 9-1-4, the returner had already caught the ball and was starting to try to juke the defender. He was no longer defenseless.
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Re: Targeting/UNR/Nothing?
« Reply #32 on: September 11, 2014, 09:04:42 PM »
This was actually penalized as Roughing the Passer by the crew.
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Re: Targeting/UNR/Nothing?
« Reply #33 on: September 13, 2014, 07:28:56 AM »
Quote from: BlindZebra on September 11, 2014, 03:42:26 PM
Just out of curiosity...

http://gfycat.com/FoolishDelectableKinkajou

This one gets the flag.  When the defender lowers his head (and looks at the ground) anything close to a resulting helmet-to-helmet gets a flag according to our preseason guidelines.
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Re: Targeting/UNR/Nothing?
« Reply #34 on: September 13, 2014, 10:12:19 AM »
Quote from: NVFOA_Ump on September 13, 2014, 07:28:56 AM
This one gets the flag.  When the defender lowers his head (and looks at the ground) anything close to a resulting helmet-to-helmet gets a flag...
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