A couple questions:
1) Was the defender on the line of scrimmage and within 4 yards of the center?
2) Did the TE (presumably also on LOS and within 4 yds) immediately begin the block or begin the block before the ball left the area near the LOS and 4 yds of the center?
If BOTH of the questions are yes, then the blocks - cut, clip, whatever - are all legal. If there's any sort of delay and the ball is gone from that box, then it's a foul. Chop blocks are always fouls - but that takes two blockers on one defender, one high and one low.
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