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Flamma

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I wondered about that myself. It seems odd to think that he would either have to let the guy tackle the runner or just let himself be bulldozed. It may be that the officials just saw the point of impact without realizing how the play came to happen.

I can't really tell from that clip. It just looked like he made a lateral block. But CeeDee may have come back from downfield, I don't know. But if so, all he had to do is make a block, not a hit. But that's a lot easier said than done from my chair. At full speed these players are probably not thinking of all of the fine details of blocking rules.
 

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football has changed Dre and you know this. Yes you are taught to keep your head on a swivel and I believe it wasn't a bad block but if you sit in officials meetings they push this big time. And if you miss it enough you wont be officiating long. (CTE has changes things alot). They are taught from Pee Wee football on up about not doing what happened yesterday and CeeDee's was not a very severe one. In fact in slo mo it looked pretty good but its bang bang out on the field.

The one in the seattle game last night that was egregious.

Maybe they review such things ?

I know this, that's why I said they're making the NFL weak. if he had hit him in the head I could see it, but this rule was put in when the Green Bay player was blindsided i think by Sapp or another Buccaneers player, that was before all the CTE stuff. this was a play within the play and not away from the play and textbook without leading with the head or taking a blow to the head.
 

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in this particular instance all Lamb had to do was put his hands into the guys shoulder pads
and brush him off the runner


he's young... he'll learn

Lol he's going to block a player on full stride with his hands, have you ever played? you risk a jammed wrist or broken wrist the force that player can put out in full stride.
 

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That was another garbage call. But Moose went on and on about the Atlanta 12 men in the huddle penalty...
 

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There was a similar block that was flagged just like Lamb was in the SNF game last night I noticed.
 

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Can someone explain to me how this isn't a perfect, textbook block in this situation?

It used to be, but now if you are further upfield and come back to make a block on a player, it isn't allowed. He would have essentially had to run past the player then come back for the block for it to be legal. His only option in this situation was to try to wall off the defender without actually blocking him ... make the defender run into him, which would have probably led to the defender running through him and making the tackle.

I do agree with the premise that the block isn't safe because the defender doesn't see it coming until it's too late, which often causes his neck to whip forward on impact.
 

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This looks to me like the same block that Golden Tate laid on Sean Lee ??

It is, and the same one that Heath did on a Seattle receiver that helped result in the rule.
 

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though only to the smallest of measurable degrees, he wasn't blocking towards his own goal. he was just slightly blocking upfield. not a penalty imo.
 

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You should have kept reading. That play is getting a flag in any game, this isnt an example of the league out to get us.
Kept reading what?

An essential part of the quoted rule was "moving."

Lamb was"moving" parallel to the line of scrimmage in only the strictest literal interpretation of the word.

From a technical perspective, was it correct? Yes.

Was it going with the spirit of the rule? I wouldn't think so.
 
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