I agree that it is not the players responsibility to avoid us (with the exception of a TE trying to scrape off me to get free).
Ususally I hear from LBs complaining that I was in the way of their path for a tackle (of course the pile is usually already going down, but they believe that they would have made a difference).
My response is
'I'm not really here. I'm just air. Heavy air, but air. You go where you think you need to.'
I do my best to not be in the way, but have been wrapped up in tackles a few times. I appreciate it when the player appologizes afterwards, but otherwise I don't expect anything else out there.
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