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Old Mon Sep 18, 2017, 11:19am
JRutledge JRutledge is offline
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Originally Posted by Robert Goodman View Post
I don't imagine there'd be much of that uncertainty, because it's a rare event. It's really hard to pull someone down backwards from behind unless you have a really great grip & are dug in pretty well yourself. If you have such a great grip, who cares how you got it?

Seems like the same way they extended grabbing the face mask to grabbing any helmet opening, horse collar should go similarly. If the object is to protect the neck, what difference does it make what part of the helmet was grabbed? If the object is to protect the knees, what difference does it make how the player was collared?
You would make almost any tackle a potential foul. That is silly on so many levels. It is different to grab something that once grabbed can be jerked in a direction. Not so much the case if you grab the helmet without grabbing onto an appendage directly.

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