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Originally posted by rockyroad
Can someone explain to me how the defender - running at full speed - is able to stop at first contact with the screener who they never saw??? Yes contact on a screen can be severe and not be called, but I think Bart's point (sorry if I'm misreading Bart) is that in the play he is describing, there is no way the defender stopped after initial contact, and that's what causes the screener to get creamed...and I'm sorry, but sending a screener into the third row is not incidental contact...
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It doesn't have to be an instantaneous stop, just that the defender must then try to stop and can not try to push through.
Perhaps I exaggerated a bit on the "third row" part.
If they hit them that hard, it's probably not a blind screen but more of a football play.