Nowhere in the rule book does it allow hands going to the face or neck of an opponent.
And didn’t the defender hit Turpin? He can’t so that either if so.
Apparently on this night they were! LOL!
I dig.
I wouldn't be trusting the announcers to be the end-all when it comes to the playing rules. It's not the main thing for their jobs and a lot don't know some of the rules. It's the official "expert" who should know these things. In viewing the replay, the Charger not only had his hand on the facemask but his fingers were curled around the bars. A penalty for facemask also could have been called because they look for a grasp and control of a player via the facemask. People missed it focusing on the turnover.
One could argue that grasping the facemask was what enabled the defender to control and manipulate Tolbert into position to make contact with Turpin. Obviously HE could see Turpin coming up trying to make the fair catch while Tolbert could not. He knew what he was doing because he had obviously seen the fair catch signal but continued to barrel down the field at Turpin which in turn induced Tolbert to continue blocking. Some small blame must go to Turpin because he should have been screaming the code word to let Tolbert know to get out of the way.. Then again maybe he was and Tolbert didn't hear it. None of which excuses the guy from grabbing the face mask and using it to maneuver Tolbert into Turpin.
ESPN’s expert official never said anything about it so in that situation it must not have been a penalty. He was being blocked.
I’m going to keep repeating it. If it was a foul, then why wasn’t it called a foul and why didn’t ESPN’s expert official say it was a foul? The play was reviewed and neither Joe Buck or Troy Aikman said anything about it.
Like you said, it was very apparent and all three of them clearly saw it on replay, and no one mentioned it. The rule could apply differently to a player that’s being blocked.
If it was obviously a penalty ESPN’s expert official would have pointed it out and said the refs missed it.
No one takes you seriously here you would be better off wasting your time insulting people somewhere else.
Well, you don't even believe the ridiculous comments you make..."because ESPN didn't say there was a penalty, hitting someone in the throat after a fair catch is clearly not a penalty"... you DO NOT believe your own posts.No one takes you seriously here you would be better off wasting your time insulting people somewhere else.
I wouldn't be surprised at all if all announcers were told to drop the subject after an obvious blown call to prevent the officiating from looking like what we already know it is.
I got you riled up because you can’t handle an opinion that differs from yours. You’re the only one that got riled up and now you’re going on the attack. Lol The call on the muffed punt was controversial. The grabbing of the face mask should have been a penalty. This is how it was explained.
https://operations.nfl.com/the-rule...player shall grasp and,opponent, it is a foul.
I haven’t had any discussions about the facemask that occurred. All we talked about was the hands to the face. The facemask was a foul that should’ve been called. You have to look at the video carefully to see that the defender grabbed the facemask and wasn’t just pushing it.
