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Old Sat Dec 08, 2012, 09:08pm
Robert Goodman Robert Goodman is offline
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Originally Posted by zm1283 View Post
The bolded part is what I was going to tell sj above. Even if he shoves him, the defender still gets blown up because of the momentum of the blocker. I don't think it really had anything to do with which body part the blocker used.
Not just the momentum of the blocker, but the defender's own momentum. Once he's knocked off his feet, he's going to land at high speed, even if he isn't deflected far off the line he was running. Both players were running fast.
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