- A player who receives a “blindside” block when the blocker is moving toward his own endline and approaches the opponent from behind or from the side.
See, that's where we differ.Before the end of the Goodell era players will be wearing flags and tackling will be a fine-able offense. How I miss football of the 70's and 80's!
Looks like pretty good proof that he was not moving toward his own endline or hitting from behind or the side. Not only was that a bullcrap call, how in the world can you then fine LK for a blown call on a legal block. I sure hope he appeals it on the grounds of ignorance and stupidity. This freaking league these days.
No one wants to see a player injured or be subjected to a horrible disease. But, many past players will tell you they knew that football was a violent sport. Again, I am not saying I want them to have terrible afflictions. But football without hitting is, well, boring to me. In 2014, players can't hit high...so they hit low. I think a look at this era from the future will show more leg injuries and players with shortened careers (and have trouble walking and getting out of bed). I think The sport will also morph into one with less contact. That is not my type of football. (I said my type.) Ask yourself, how far are you willing to change football to protect the players before it no longer appeals to you and you stop watching?See, that's where we differ.
Personally, I don't miss the football of the 70's and 80's, not because I wasn't alive to witness them, but because the quality of life those men "enjoy" today and how they have to watch their buddies die and suffer from horrible diseases like dimensia, alzheimers, ALS, and the like. The steps the league has taken over the past decade, especially with the advent of concussion protocols and the like have done more good for the players than anything in the league's history, and that should be applauded.
Having said that, what Kendricks did was not only legal and not a penalty, but it is how the game should be taught! He faces up his man, hits him in the chest, blocks downfield for his receiver which is a lost fricking art, and finishes his block THROUGH the man's chest, which is football 101. The fact that a penalty was called, subsequently not picked up, could not be challenged (which I HATE), and then the offending player was fined for it is the tragedy, not the spirit of the rules.
The spirit of the rules is adding years and quality of life to men who, not ten years prior, were shooting themselves in the chest with a shotgun to preserve their brains for science (Seau).
The enforcement of the rules is deplorable.
See, that's where we differ.
Personally, I don't miss the football of the 70's and 80's, not because I wasn't alive to witness them, but because the quality of life those men "enjoy" today and how they have to watch their buddies die and suffer from horrible diseases like dimensia, alzheimers, ALS, and the like. The steps the league has taken over the past decade, especially with the advent of concussion protocols and the like have done more good for the players than anything in the league's history, and that should be applauded.
Having said that, what Kendricks did was not only legal and not a penalty, but it is how the game should be taught! He faces up his man, hits him in the chest, blocks downfield for his receiver which is a lost fricking art, and finishes his block THROUGH the man's chest, which is football 101. The fact that a penalty was called, subsequently not picked up, could not be challenged (which I HATE), and then the offending player was fined for it is the tragedy, not the spirit of the rules.
The spirit of the rules is adding years and quality of life to men who, not ten years prior, were shooting themselves in the chest with a shotgun to preserve their brains for science (Seau).
The enforcement of the rules is deplorable.