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Originally Posted by Robert Goodman
Hmmm...that's an expansive idea, interpreting "blocking" as beginning some time before the actual contact. If at the snap, an OL stays low and takes several steps in a straight line (though not straight ahead of where he started) before hitting a DL, where did that block "begin"?
Robert in the Bronx
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Sorry, let me put in another situation when we commonly use the same logic.
A77 outside the free blocking zone begins his charge at B99, his charge is at B99's front of the torso below the neck above the waist. Because of a sudden movement either a spin or jump or duck the contact actually occurs in the back, or below the waste, or above the neck. What do you have? No flag because the initial charge was legal.
This is similar, the initial charge begins when the ball is in the zone, legal. "Several steps" does not sound like an initial charge I would refer to.