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Dre11 said:
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I don't know if he meant to pick Diggs or not, but that's the reason I don't mind the penalty being called. He clearly picked Diggs off, practically decleating him. Whether there was intent or not is open to interpretation. Usually things go sideways when officials have to do a lot of interpreting. If they had determined that he was just running his route and the contact was incidental, I would have understood that as well.
 
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gimmesix said:
I don't know if he meant to pick Diggs or not, but that's the reason I don't mind the penalty being called. He clearly picked Diggs off, practically decleating him. Whether there was intent or not is open to interpretation. Usually things go sideways when officials have to do a lot of interpreting. If they had determined that he was just running his route and the contact was incidental, I would have understood that as well.
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Usually when it's an accident they both go down. When a guy stays up it seems he knew what was happening.
 
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speedkilz88 said:
Usually when it's an accident they both go down. When a guy stays up it seems he knew what was happening.
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Maybe. I don't think from watching it that Shepherd was looking to pick him. I thought he was looking back at the QB the whole time. Usually when players are running a pick play, they glance at the defender because they want to make sure they have the contact lined up. The natural progression of that route may have been meant to run interference with Diggs, but I'm not sure it was meant to make contact with him.
 
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gimmesix said:
Maybe. I don't think from watching it that Shepherd was looking to pick him. I thought he was looking back at the QB the whole time. Usually when players are running a pick play, they glance at the defender because they want to make sure they have the contact lined up. The natural progression of that route may have been meant to run interference with Diggs, but I'm not sure it was meant to make contact with him.
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As it was explained ,it's design to look that way. we teach our Wrs to look at the Qb and throw their hands up. looks like shepherd dropped his shoulder to give the impression that he was giving himself up. Ref didn't buy it.
 
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gimmesix said:
Maybe. I don't think from watching it that Shepherd was looking to pick him. I thought he was looking back at the QB the whole time. Usually when players are running a pick play, they glance at the defender because they want to make sure they have the contact lined up. The natural progression of that route may have been meant to run interference with Diggs, but I'm not sure it was meant to make contact with him.
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He did look at Diggs prior to contact, and he actually braced for the impact and kinda lunged at the point of contact. He was definately trying to Pick Diggs, but he did a really good job at it to the point it was questionable. It was the right call, despite the effort by Buck to make it seem like Dallas got the big break with the call.
 
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He did look at Diggs prior to contact, and he actually braced for the impact and kinda lunged at the point of contact. He was definately trying to Pick Diggs, but he did a really good job at it to the point it was questionable. It was the right call, despite the effort by Buck to make it seem like Dallas got the big break with the call.
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I went back just now and rewatched him. He looked at him at the last second right before impact. That may have been just because he saw the collision coming. I'm not convinced that it was on purpose, so maybe he just sold me, too, but like I said, I'm OK with the call because it was a pick play. Figuring out intent isn't easy.
 
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Dre11 said:
As it was explained ,it's design to look that way. we teach our Wrs to look at the Qb and throw their hands up. looks like shepherd dropped his shoulder to give the impression that he was giving himself up. Ref didn't buy it.
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That's why I don't mind the call. The officials have to figure out whether there's a lack of intent. The NFL has taken so many hard hits out of the game that you would think they would remove one where a DB on the move gets decleated by a TE or WR unexpectedly. Running interference is part of scheming, leveling unsuspecting players is cheap. It's going to happen by accident sometimes, but the more they flag ones where it's not clear if it was an accident, the less it will happen.
 
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Looking at the clip, his left knee bangs into Diggs and then he lands slightly awkwardly on it. I wonder if that weakened his ACL? I feel sorry for him, hope he can make it back next season.
 
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It happened too far down field to be an intentional pick play, but intentional or not, it was a pick. It was more of oh, I see a db, I'm going to ad-lib and run into him and make it look like I am just running a route.
 
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gimmesix said:
I went back just now and rewatched him. He looked at him at the last second right before impact. That may have been just because he saw the collision coming. I'm not convinced that it was on purpose, so maybe he just sold me, too, but like I said, I'm OK with the call because it was a pick play. Figuring out intent isn't easy.
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Yeah, I don't think it was a good call. Diggs wasn't even covering Sheppard and comes off his own man to get in Sheppard's path. Either Sheppard stops on his route or keeps going. Receivers are always taught to keep going and it looked to me like he just braced to protect himself.
 
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