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Originally posted by waltjp
How tight do you call this? I had a QB get hit very slightly in the head yesterday after throwing a pass. As I saw it the defender pulled up to avoid hitting the QB head on but as he passed he waved his arm and hit him in the helmet.
It wasn't a hard or flagrant hit by any means but I thought it could have been averted altogether. Team B coach goes nuts, screaming at me, "I can see the flag if it was a vicious hit but he only touched him."
I resisted the temptation to reply to the coach with my usual sarcastic style.
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I had one on Friday night. Contact to the helmet with the hand. It was a follow-through of trying to bat the pass. It was not late but I flagged it because the helmet was hit. Contact to the helmet will almost always get a flag in my book.
I also had helmet to helmet contact that was pretty hard. That got a PF flag. When it's a safety issue, I lean towards protecting the players.