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Originally Posted by rockyroad
My understanding of the rule is that if the receiver is in front of the linebacker and running towards the linebacker, the linebacker may consider the receiver a potential blocker and respond accordingly. Is this not correct? Or am I letting bigjohn mess with my coaches brain?
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Unless he's behind the deep safety, he's always going to be running at some defender. If it's obvious he's in his route, it should be a flag.
I wish the NF would clean up the semantics in this rule.
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Last edited by BktBallRef; Fri Sep 14, 2012 at 12:47pm.
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